Story by Sgt. Christopher Harper | International Security Assistance Force HQ Public Affairs | 04.05.2012
The 14th Sgt. Maj. of the Army Ray Chandler, the senior enlisted leader in the U.S. Army - responsible for the state of the enlisted corps and reporting its condition to the Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno - visited troops throughout Afghanistan April 2-5....
Story by Sgt. Christopher Harper | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 04.03.2012
Balanced atop a remote mountainside, in the shadows of the Hindu Kush mountains that stretch across northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, sits Combat Outpost Bari Alai. The outpost hosts 30 U.S. soldiers and 13 Afghan security guards responsible for watching over the valleys that stretch for miles in each direction and is accessible only by helicopter or by a long, forced, ascent....
