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Training the trainer, Afghan-style

Story by Sgt. Christopher McCullough | 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | Date: 09.28.2012

With the withdrawal of International Security Assistance Forces looming in the future, coalition forces are focused on their partnered training programs so that the Afghan National Security Forces will be... Read More

New outpost is bad news for insurgents in Mizan

Story by Staff Sgt. Joshua Brandenburg | 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | Date: 09.27.2012

The landscape of the Mizan district in southern Afghanistan is dominated by many hills and mountains creating pockets of farmable land in the valleys along the Argandab River. Taliban fighters have long... Read More

New Afghan MOD addresses ANA senior enlisted

Story by Sgt. Christopher Harper | International Security Assistance Force HQ Public Affairs | Date: 09.21.2012

The Afghan National Army is now more than 190,000 strong. It is made up of six corps and a capitol division stretching into every province across the country, each with as many as 15,000 men and women. Read More

Why we serve: US Army Sgt. Alex Peyton Nebraska native mentors Afghan farmers

Story by Sgt. Christopher Bonebrake | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | Date: 09.17.2012

U.S. Army Sgt. Alex Peyton, an agricultural specialist from Gothenburg, Neb., bristles with weapons and gear as he sits quietly in a wooden chair, surveying the world outside the wire at Forward Operating Base... Read More

Afghan National Army takes over operations at Chimtallah National Ammunition Depot

Story by Capt. Monika Comeaux | 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | Date: 09.16.2012

Representatives from the Afghan National Army assumed the responsibilities of operating the Chimtallah National Ammunition Depot Sept. 16, during a ceremony that took place at a newly built bunker. Read More