Story by Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 02.04.2013
The snow continues to fall heavily on Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan, as soldiers in the mechanics duty area work continuously to prepare vehicles and equipment for ongoing missions. One Soldier prepares his vehicle recovery truck for upcoming missions. Spc. Annson J. Sanders, a 24-year-old Dickson, Tenn., native goes through the process of inspecting his truck with great detail....
Story by Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 01.24.2013
Soldiers assigned to Company E, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), work around the clock to have vehicles and equipment in working order for ongoing missions at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan, Jan. 24....
Story by Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 01.21.2013
Soldiers assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), received combat awards for their involvement in combat opertions during a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan, Jan. 21....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 02.21.2012
Afghan Border Police and Afghan Uniformed Police from all areas of Regional Command-East have been coming to Forward Operating Base Gardez to learn how to work on vehicles and, more importantly, with each other, at a class taught by the U.S. soldiers of the Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Spartan....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 02.20.2012
The city of Gardez is located at the junction between two important roads that cut through a huge alpine valley. Surrounded by the mountains of the Hindu Kush, which boil up from the valley floor to the north, east and west, it is the axis of commerce for a huge area of eastern Afghanistan, and has been a strategic location for armies throughout this country’s long history of conflict.......
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 02.20.2012
Cold rounds of solidified H2O were flying within the walls of Forward Operating Base Gardez, Feb. 20. Paratroopers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Spartan planned and executed a complex winter snowball ambush on members of the Paktya Provinicial Reconstruction Team as they were exiting their working quarters at lunch time....
Story by Senior Airman Wesley Farnsworth | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 09.05.2011
U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Daniel Reilly, Company B, 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, Massachusetts Army National Guard, and Winchester, Mass., native, received the Order of Saint Maurice award on Forward Operating Base Gardez, Paktya Province, Afghanistan Aug. 29....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 05.21.2011
Two soldiers in eastern Afghanistan watched their children graduate high school May 21, despite being more than 7,000 miles away from the ceremony held at Fort Knox High School in Fort Knox, Ky....
