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ODA 595 is inserted covertly in Afghanistan aboard Boeing CH-47 Chinook flown by 160th SOAR on October 19, 2001. [6] They land 40 miles south of Mazar-i-Sharif , the country's fourth-largest city and a longtime stronghold of the Taliban , where they meet Dostum.
Members of ODA 595, part of Task Force Dagger, and Afghan forces ride into northern Afghanistan in October 2001 on horseback. Once they arrived in-country, the Northern Alliance troops provided the US forces with horses, the only suitable transportation for the difficult mountainous terrain of Northern Afghanistan.
On November 2, 2001, Green Berets from ODA 543 and three members of the CIA's Team Bravo [12] inserted into the Dari-a-Balkh Valley, after being delayed by weather for several nights. Their role was to support General Mohammed Atta Nur and his militia. Together they fought through the Dari-e-Souf Valley and had linked up with Dostum and his ...
The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan (sometimes also referred to as the "Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif") was a six-day military engagement following an uprising of prisoners of war who had been taken into custody by US-led coalition forces on 25 November 2001. The battle took place between 25 November and 1 December, in northern Afghanistan.
On 9 November 2001, ODA 595 and ODA 534 and the seven members of the CIA's Special Activities Division [34]: 38–41 [35] [41] assisted about 2000 members of the Northern Alliance who attacked and liberated Mazari Sharif on horseback, foot, pickup trucks, and BMP armored personnel carriers. [34]: 41
Team Alpha was flown into Afghanistan in two Black Hawk helicopters [11] from the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan. The eight were the first Americans behind enemy lines after 9/11; the CIA's Jawbreaker team had arrived on September 26, but were located in terrain controlled by the Northern Alliance in the Panjshir Valley. Three days ...
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ODA 555 went to the Panjshir Valley to link up with the NALT and Fahim, and ODA 595 went to the Darya Suf Valley, just south of Mazar-i-Sharif, to work with Dostum. [ 124 ] In mid-October, A and G squadron of the British 22nd SAS Regiment , reinforced by members of the Territorial SAS regiments, deployed to northwest Afghanistan in support of ...