Story by Capt. Kevin Sandell | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division | 10.30.2011
Security gains in central Zharay district are increasing in large part to village residents in Siab Jan, Baluchan, and Nalgham joining community-based security groups and turning-in improvised explosive devices, homemade explosive material, and weapons caches to Afghan and coalition security forces....
Story by Karla Marshall | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineer District - South | 06.06.2011
The Zhari District of Kandahar province has seen its share of clashes since the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban began in late 2001. As part of the counterinsurgency efforts to improve security and stability throughout Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District – South constructed district headquarters compounds for the Afghan National Police with the......
Story by Sgt. Benjamin Watson | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 12.24.2010
Thirty-nine-year-old Diatullah and 23-year-old Ibrahim have run missions together in Kandahar, Zabul and Helmand provinces as Afghan National Army Commandos. Today they work in Kandahar province alongside the same Special Operations Task Force – South sergeant who trained them two years ago....
Story by Sgt. Benjamin Watson | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 11.08.2010
Muhammad Agha was shot multiple times while serving as a policeman in Afghanistan. Fourteen years ago he was beaten almost to the point of death for doing his job. Yet not once has he left the country whose people he has worked to protect for nearly three decades....
Story by Sgt. Benjamin Watson | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 11.05.2010
Many of the policemen in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Afghan National Civil Order Police Brigade, are experienced in providing security in Afghanistan, and they have age on their side – most being at least 30 years old....
Story by Pvt. Luke Rollins | 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 12.09.2009
An old military maxim says, "An army marches on its stomach, not its feet." The Forward Operating Base Wilson dining facility has two armies, American and Canadian, to feed and keep marching to their missions in southern Afghanistan's Zhari District....
