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 Petty Officer 2nd Class Olivia Giger | ISAF Joint Command | 12.13.2011
Today, thousands of people in Afghanistan live in impoverished conditions, surviving day-to-day with limited resources. The Afghan government estimates that 42 percent of the country’s total population lives in poverty. During the winter, surviving becomes even more difficult with decreasing resources and colder temperatures. Many families in refugee camps are forced to burn trash and old......
Story by 1st Lt. Andrew Adcock | Joint Sustainment Command - Afghanistan | 02.17.2011
After a military career spanning some 30 years, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Danny K. Plunkett is on his second overseas deployment to the Middle East, and, despite the austere environment, is making a difference in the lives of Afghans at the grassroots level. ...
Story by Sgt. Rebecca Linder | 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade | 08.31.2010
“Healing hearts and minds” of the Afghan people is the motto of the Operation Outreach-Afghanistan (OOA) program achieved once again by U.S. soldiers here, in partnership with Afghan National Army soldiers, Aug. 31 as they participated in a humanitarian aid drop to a local orphanage in Kabul....
