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  2. List of army equipment of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    On December 23, 2007, Canadian media reported that the Canadian Forces would supply the Afghan National Army with 2,500 surplus Colt Canada C7 rifles (a Canadian variant of the M16), along with training and ammunition in order to Westernise Afghan equipment. In June 2011, the Afghan National Army returned the loaned C7 rifles as the ANA ...

  3. List of equipment of the Afghan Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    Over 10,000 captured from the former Afghan National Army. [1] [2] M16 United States: Assault rifle: 104,000 M16A2 and M16A4 variants used. [3] Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [1] Colt Canada C7 Canada: Assault rifle: 2,500 captured from former Afghan Army AK-47 Soviet Union: Assault rifle [4] Type 56 China: Assault rifle

  4. Colt Canada C7 and C8 - Wikipedia

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    In 2007 and 2008, Canada donated 2,500 surplus C7 assault rifles to the Afghan National Army. [56] In 2011, the ANA gave back the C7s since as Afghan security forces chose the American M16 instead. Canadian Forces officials said the Canadian rifles would be shipped to Canada for disposal. [57]

  5. Afghan Army - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic National Army (Pashto: اسلامي ملي اردو, Islāmī Milli Urdu), [2] [3] [4] also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

  6. Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban - AOL

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    The Taliban captured an array of modern military equipment when they overran Afghan forces who failed to defend district centers. Bigger gains followed, including combat aircraft, when the Taliban ...

  7. Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

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    In comparison to the Afghan Army, these civil defense detachments were equipped with older WW II-era surplus weapons, especially during the early part of the war, such as the PPSh-41. The first rural self-defense units were created in April–May 1980, in the Surkh-Rōd District of Nangarhar Province by residents of the villages of Hatyrkhel ...

  8. Afghan Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...

  9. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    This category includes grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and other forms of moral injury and mental disorders caused or inflamed by war. Between the start of the Afghan war in October 2001 and June 2012, the demand for military mental health services skyrocketed, according to Pentagon data. So did substance abuse within the ranks.

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