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Afghan National Police Brig. Gen. Abdul Nabi Elham, the Helmand provincial police chief, gives a speech during an Afghan Local Police shura, or meeting, at the Helmand Province Police Headquarters in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 18, 2012.

Shura held to discuss ALP logistics accountability

2012/05/22 • Comments

“The Log shura was held to bring the Afghan Local Police to the table to discuss issues and concerns pertaining to logistics,” said U.S. Army Maj. Mike Buck, Regional Logistics Center, Regional Support Command Southwest logistics advisor.

Tags: Afghan National Police, afghanistan, ALP, ANP, Feature, featured, helmand, independence, ISAF, Lashkar Gah, nato, nato training mission, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, NTM-A, OEF, police, RSC-SW, shura

Category: News - Afghan National Police, News - General

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An Afghan National Army medic trainee applies a bandage to a simulated chest wound during a casualty treatment exercise at Camp Shorabak, Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 3, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Bill Putnam/Released)

ANA Medics train to treat casualties

2012/03/16 • Comments

“Unlike US (military) medics, we have quite a bit of time where we finish our basic medical training before we find ourselves in a combat circumstance, these guys will go directly out on patrol as soon as their finished,” said U.S. Navy HM2 William Kelly.

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Category: News - Afghan National Army, News - General, News - Medical, Uncategorized

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عکس : دگروال سید جلال الدین فرمانده مرکزآموزش لشکرگاه در بین با جگرن بریتانیوی ریچ ریدینگ فرمانده دلگی درباره اعمار اطاق های خواب پولیس ملی افغان صحبت می کنند . عکس توسط بیل پتنم

Plans for New Facilities in Lashkar Gah Take Shape

2012/03/08 • Comments

The new training center’s training will include crime scene analysis and forensics. That will “make them a more professional force that will link Helmand and Nimroz provinces and ultimately to the Afghan national government,” said U.S. Army Col. Matt Redding.

Tags: Afghan National Police, afghanistan, ANP, education, Feature, featured, helmand, independence, Lashkar Gah, nato, nato training mission, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan, NTM-A, police, training

Category: News - Afghan National Police

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دلشکرګاه ولایت پلازمنی دری تنه مخوری ښځینه و دمراسمو به بهیر کی د یاد مرکز چی اوس ترمیم شوی دی دنوزاد ښځینه و په اړه خبری وکړی. یادمرکز دسیمه ایزه ښځینه و د یوځای کیدو او کار یو خوندی ځای دی. (انځوردامریکی دمتحده ایالاتو دسندری ځواک قول اردو مردید براون)

Women’s center provides new opportunities for Afghan women

2012/01/20 • Comments

“We’re just trying to make a way where these families can sustain themselves,” said Sgt. Comfort. “We’re really relying more on the local security forces to provide security for these women to come and gather. We’re trying to make it Afghan-run.”

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Brig. Gen. Khatool Mohammadzai, director for womens affairs in the Afghan army, ANA Ministry of Defense and for physical training of recruits visits the Bastion Hospital at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Dec. 24. In the afternoon Moammadzai had lunch at the new Afghan Cultural Center, met Marine Maj. Gen. Angela Salinas and consulted with several Afghan women as part of a leadership forum.

Afghan general discusses women’s roles in development, governance

2012/01/06 • Comments

“You have all left your family behind…Having brave women like you here makes the entire world proud, especially me. Hopefully one day you will all wear the stars of a general,” said Brig. Gen. Khatool Mohammadzai, director for women’s affairs in the Afghan National Army.

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Category: Gender, News - Afghan National Army, News - News

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Sergeants Jessica Lugo (left) and Autumn Sekely (right), of Female Engagement Team 6, walk into a village leader’s compound in Sangin district, Helmand province. Sekely, of Pittsburgh, and Lugo, of San Pedro, Calif., are assigned to support 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, by engaging with the local women and children, building trust and rapport between local residents and the Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Katherine Keleher)

Female Engagement Team supports Marines, builds relations with Sangin women

2011/12/23 • Comments

“The (local residents) are very intrigued by us. They see us, the color of our skin, the color of our eyes, us carrying a rifle walking alongside the males. They see that we’re equal,” said Sergeants Jessica Lugo.

Tags: afghanistan, education, Feature, featured, Female Engagement Team, FET, gender, helmand, independence, nato, nato training mission, NTM-A, women

Category: Gender, News - News

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Corporal Brandy Bates, a team member with Female Engagement Team 8 and native of Ann Arbor, Mich., walks around the corner of a mud wall while supporting soldiers from the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps and U.S. Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, during a recent foot patrol through the village of Tughay, Sangin district, Helmand province. The FET supports 3/7 by bridging the cultural gap and interacting with the local Afghan women.

Female Engagement Team builds trust, rapport with women in Sangin

2011/12/23 • Comments

“It’s important to meet with them in their homes because it’s a safe area for them,” said Marine Cpl. Brandy Bates. “We hope this brings more information and possibly women to the women’s shuras, now that they know they can trust us and talk to us.”

Tags: afghanistan, education, Feature, featured, Female Engagement Team, FET, gender, helmand, independence, Meredith Brown, nato, nato training mission, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan, NTM-A, training, women

Category: Gender, News - General, News - News

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Hamayoun Shah Safi instructs a class of Afghan National Police how to treat a chest wound by relieving the air pressure that is forcing a lung to collapse. Safi is the first Afghan instructor to teach the course in the Southwest. (Photo by Doug Magill)

Afghan instructors lead Southwest medics course for first time

2011/12/01 • Comments

“When I was a student in the course, it was difficult for me to learn from someone from the United States because of the language barrier,” said Hamayoun Shah Safi, ANP instructor. “Now when I’m talking to the students, they know what I am saying.”

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Afghan National Police and coalition logistics officials gather for the southwest region’s first logistic’s shura Oct. 19 at the Helmand Provincial Police Headquarters in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province. (Photo by British Army Lt. Col. Stephanie Jackman)

Afghan National Police, coalition hold first logistics shura in Southwest

2011/11/19 • Comments

“It is very important that we work with our coalition members to help solve logistics issues,” said Afghan Col. Tor Jan, chief logistics officer, Helmand Supply Point. “We understand…what the coalition does and must be prepared to take on more of this mission in the future.”

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