News: Afghanistan
05.18.2012
Marine, leader, friend remembered during memorial
Story by Kenneth Jasik | Regional Command Southwest | Date: 05.18.2012Marines gathered to remember and celebrate the life of a squad leader with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, May 18. Sergeant Wade D. Wilson died while conducting combat operations in Musa... Read More
05.18.2012
Teenager murdered by insurgents revealed by father at shura
Story by Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta | Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan Media Operations Center | Date: 05.18.2012Insurgents killed the last remaining son of an Afghan Uniformed Policeman after a failed extortion plot against the victim's father near the village of Kalah-Kalah, May 18. Read More
05.18.2012
Afghanistan: Afghan and coalition soldiers capture six insurgents in the Bala Boluk district
Courtesy Story | ISAF Regional Command West | Date: 05.18.2012Insurgents attacked a group Afghan National Security Forces with automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade in Bala Boluk district, in Farah province today. The Afghan soldiers reacted immediately to the... Read More
05.18.2012
Afghan police build swing set for boys school
Story by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | Regimental Combat Team 6 | Date: 05.18.2012Teachers in one Afghan school might have a harder time keeping their students under control thanks to the local police. Read More
05.18.2012
Mother, Marine, more; one woman’s sacrifice while deployed
Story by Cpl. Timothy Lenzo | 1st Marine Division | Date: 05.18.2012Staff Sgt. Maribel Valdez, the adjutant with 1st Marine Division (Forward), sits quietly at her desk. She sits straight with dark eyes, her M-9 pistol holstered tight to her uniform, and pictures of her family... Read More
