Story by 1st Lt. David Morgenstern | Marine Corps Air Station Miramar | 03.11.2012
The explosion was loud, powerful and sudden. Instantly everyone in the Joint Operations Center (JOC) hit the floor – standard procedure for a potential rocket or mortar attack, but a new experience for me....
Story by Cpl. Bryan Nygaard | Regional Command Southwest | 01.02.2012
During the 10 years that the U.S. and its ISAF allies have been in Afghanistan, the fight has been not been for cities, hills or some other piece of land that holds strategic value. The fight has been for the minds of the Afghan people. The expression “hearts and minds” has long been dismissed as cliché and hollow, but it embodies the very essence of counter-insurgency operations being......
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Gino Flores | Regional Command Southwest | 08.23.2011
Coalition forces instructors at the Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest aboard Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, have stayed on target training Afghan National Security Forces throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and its accompanying sunrise to sunset fast....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden | Office of the Secretary of War Public Affairs | 09.09.2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and his top advisers are discussing whether Gates should intervene personally in a Florida pastor's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Sept. 9....
Courtesy Story | ISAF Joint Command | 07.29.2010
An ISAF task force looked into allegations of Quran desecration in Tarin Kot, Uruzgan province following allegations in the media....
Courtesy Story | ISAF Joint Command | 01.21.2010
An Afghan-international security force searched a compound next to an IED strike in Helmand province today and found several damaged Holy Qurans in an abandoned building....
