Story by Cpl. Ashley Lawson | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 11.17.2017
Marines with 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force, participated in the infantry immersion trainer and convoy operations at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Nov. 14-17, 2017....
Story by Sgt. Jon Heinrich | 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 03.29.2013
U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, recently completed a five day mission, titled OQUAAB XI, with their Afghan National Security Forces partners March 27 to 31, in the Wazir Valley of the Khogyani district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan....
Story by Sgt. Jon Heinrich | 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 03.01.2013
U.S. soldiers recently conducted a dismounted patrol March 1, through the local village outside Forward Operating Base Finley-Shields, Afghanistan....
Story by Sgt. Jessi McCormick | 102d Public Affairs Detachment | 02.23.2013
Insurgent activity has been pushed out of Chorah, in Afghanistan’s mountainous Uruzgan province, and those efforts are strongly credited to the efforts of District Chief of Police Lt. Omar Khan and his Afghan Uniform Police officers....
Story by Sgt. Jessi McCormick | 102d Public Affairs Detachment | 02.10.2013
Afghan National Army infantry soldiers in Uruzgan province have been operating independently since October 2012, and now Afghan National Army Engineers here are ready to take control of their operations....
Story by Sgt. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 05.06.2012
In Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force and Army uniforms are hard to distinguish between. Both have the same colors, the same “mulitcam” pattern, and the same tailoring. In fact, if the ranks and names weren’t a subdued crimson on the Air Force uniforms instead of the Army’s ink black it would be nearly impossible to tell them apart....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 09.28.2011
To the U.S. infantry soldier north-eastern Afghanistan is unforgiving on many levels - extreme weather, isolation and xenophobic tribes ... but the true suffering begins and ends with the rugged, soul-sapping terrain. It is a country of severe alpine landscapes that seem to go on forever in merciless, jagged waves of cliff faces, boulder fields and stony hillsides – and yet somehow life took......
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.07.2011
For the vast majority of Americans the War on Terror is a decade old and a world away, but for the soldiers living and fighting on Forward Operating Base Tillman, a small fortress etched into a high mountain valley near the Pakistan border, it is on their doorstep every minute of the day, every day....
