Story by Staff Sgt. Jason Ragucci | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 06.14.2013
The first female soldier to shoot a 120mm illumination round from a mortar tube in Afghanistan is from a Female Engagement Team (FET) attached to Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment. Spc. Nicole McFarland shot her first mortar round on the US Army’s 238th birthday....
Story by Staff Sgt. Bryan Dominique | 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 08.07.2012
The Afghan National Army, along with their American partners, found an insurgent weapons cache in southern Afghanistan, Aug. 7....
Courtesy Story | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 12.08.2011
A groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting ceremony were held in the Shah Wali Kot district Dec. 5 to mark the beginning of a long time plan to build government living quarters....
Courtesy Story | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 09.21.2011
Have you heard your parents or grandparents talk of the days when they went to school? They walked miles to and from. There were no buses and they definitely didn’t get to go shopping for fancy backpacks that displayed their favorite cartoon characters. With their hardships long remembered they make jokes and nag from time to time....
Courtesy Story | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 07.07.2011
When Capt. Jeffery Ellis, squadron chaplain with 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found out he was heading on deployment to Afghanistan, it was nothing unusual. This was until his squadron commander, Lt. Col. David Raugh, wanted to do something out of the ordinary - haircuts for soldiers....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 12.03.2010
Afghan National Army Special Forces in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province received their tan berets in a ceremony Dec. 3, marking the completion of their training and induction in to the ANA Special Forces community....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 11.25.2010
The district governor and area citizens, along with Afghan National Army Special Forces and their coalition forces partners, uncovered weapons and explosives in Kandahar province’s northern Shah Wali Kot District, Nov. 25....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 09.02.2010
Afghan Commandos with the 3rd Commando Kandak, advised and assisted by Coalition forces, found and destroyed multiple bomb-making materials in a remote region of Shah Wali Kot District, Kandahar province, Sept. 2....
