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Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger.It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, [4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne ...
Combat Obscura is composed of video footage taken from 2011 to 2012 by lance corporal Miles Lagoze and other cameramen from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, in Sangin-Kajaki, Afghanistan. [1] [2] As a combat photographer, the footage was originally shot for recruitment and propaganda purposes. [3]
The Afghan Commando Forces (Persian: نیروهای کماندوی افغانستان, Pashto: افغان کمانډو لړۍ) were the former combined commando, paratrooper and special formations of the Afghan Army, composed of numerous brigades, regiments and battalions initially established by King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1964 and disbanded in 1992 by President Mohammad Najibullah, following ...
Forward Operating Base Sarkari Karez was a foreign military base in Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. [1] [2] The base was initially established, secured and named by the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry "Ramrods" in 2008. It was built by the Bravo Company, 62nd Engineer Battalion based in Fort Hood. [3]
The Badri 313 Battalion first emerged in the late stages of the Taliban insurgency, notably taking part in an attack on British security company G4S's Kabul compound in November 2018. [1] After the 2021 Fall of Kabul , the Taliban reported that the Badri 313 Battalion were securing the Arg (the Afghani Presidential Palace) and other important ...
Whilst German sources stated that they were participating in Operation Karez in northern Afghanistan in conjunction with the Afghan army and the Norwegian QRF, the German magazine Der Spiegel stated that the German government hesitated to deploy the reconnaissance, logistics and KSK forces originally promised by the German regional commander ...
A year after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, experts say there are signs their rule is allowing al Qaeda to stage a comeback in the country. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday takes a look at what ...
The United States was represented by 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (2/327th Infantry) part of the 101st Airborne Division. The 2nd Battalion is also known as the "No Slack Battalion." [2] The 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") [6] is a modular specialized light infantry division of the United States Army trained for air ...