Story by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy | Air Force Special Tactics | 10.17.2017
The team was trapped, outnumbered and bombarded by grenades and machine gun fire from elevated positions. Bullets ricocheted around them. Ordnance from circling, friendly aircraft exploded meters from their position, shaking the ground, as smoke from an exploded cache smothered the village. Their mission was originally to kill or capture high value Taliban leaders that fateful night Nov.......
Story by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy | 1st Special Operations Wing | 04.07.2017
It was a 96-hour battle: four ambushes, 17 airstrike missions and the eventual safety of a 150-person team that led to one Special Tactics combat controller receiving the Silver Star medal, April 7, here. Tech. Sgt. Brian Claughsey, a combat controller assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, was awarded the nation’s third highest valor medal for his role in liberating Kunduz City,......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Afghanistan District | 11.20.2014
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is completing the construction of a $24.5 million military base facility in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in support of the Afghanistan National Army 2-209th Corps. This will be the first major military base built in the Kunduz province since 328 BC when the Greeks built a similar garrison nearby in what is known today as Ai Khanum....
Courtesy Story | 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment | 10.23.2013
For the last three months, the cavalrymen at Forward Operating Base Kunduz have been busy with more than just conducting combat patrols and manning the base perimeter. In what little free time they have, the Soldiers of the 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, applied their efforts to retrograde the equipment that has kept the FOB operational......
Courtesy Story | 101st Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs | 10.21.2013
As coalition forces work feverishly to prepare for the 2014 withdrawal, soldiers from the 524th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion made one last retrograde run to Kunduz. This was to be the cumulative event moving hundreds of trucks full of military equipment, fuel and supplies in and out of the North in a massive effort to close this key military base....
Story by Sgt. Edward Siguenza | 1-294th Infantry Regiment | 10.01.2013
Forward Operating Base Kunduz was a place Sgt. 1st Class Celso Leonen called home for almost half a year. FOB Kunduz housed about two dozen Alpha Company soldiers, and in return they ran nearly 80 missions supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Leonen's security forces platoon of Alpha Company soldiers from 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard, occupied a small......
Story by Lt.j.g. Jacob Joy | NATO Training Mission Afghanistan | 08.21.2013
Afghan policemen raised their nation’s flag above Police Training Center Kunduz during a special ceremony marking the end of the German Police Project Team’s authority here in late August....
Story by Staff Sgt. Vito Bryant | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 03.19.2013
The first Warduj district Afghan Local Police class graduated at a ceremony in Imam Sahib district, Kunduz province on March 19....
