Story by Capt. Marvin Baker | Joint Task Force 136th (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) | 04.03.2013
A country music star plays a toe-tapping song for troops at one coalition base here. A quartet of Olympic gold medal athletes poses for photographs at another camp....
Story by Capt. Marvin Baker | Joint Task Force 136th (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) | 03.20.2013
Leaders in Task Force Centurion officially transferred responsibility of Camp Julien to Afghan National Security Forces during a transfer ceremony here March 12....
Story by Capt. Marvin Baker | Joint Task Force 136th (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) | 02.24.2013
A group of once cautious and self-restrained soldiers in Task Force Centurion, who kept an arm’s-length distance from their Afghan police mentees, learned to close that space and to develop meaningful mentor-mentee relationships that will make a difference in their lives and the lives of the police they mentor....
Story by Capt. Marvin Baker | Joint Task Force 136th (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) | 01.25.2013
Dozens of coalition soldiers, including Maj. Jeff Gilmore, Task Force Centurion Police Advisory Team member and Texas National Guardsman deployed in Afghanistan, regularly volunteer for Operation Outreach, preparing fuel, food and clothing items to help the poorest in Kabul fend off Afghanistan’s tough winter and recent droughts....
Story by Capt. Marvin Baker | Joint Task Force 136th (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) | 01.15.2013
For his first overseas trip since becoming the 27th chief of the National Guard Bureau last September, Gen. Frank J. Grass came here Jan. 15 to visit mobilized National Guard soldiers from Texas, Georgia, New Jersey and Alabama....