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August 6: A US CH-47 Chinook helicopter being flown by the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment was shot down by an RPG killing 30 American and eight Afghan soldiers. Some of the casualties were from The US Navy's SEAL Team Six [90] [91]
After the Stage IV transition of authority to ISAF, the status of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade/Task Force Falcon, which handles all the helicopter combat aviation duties in Afghanistan, was uncertain, along with the exact status of Combined Task Force Sword, the engineer task force, and the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force.
2nd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps (Afghan) 3rd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps (Afghan) U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol the fields in Aftermath. OTHER SUPPORTING UNITS. Combat Logistics Battalion 6 CLR2; 451st Air Expeditionary Wing (US) 904 Expeditionary Air Wing (UK) [101 ...
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 ...
1st Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment (Currently under the operational control, or OPCON, of Task Force Kandahar) 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment; 3rd Squadron 61st Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Battalion 77th Field Artillery Regiment (2-77th FAR) 704th Brigade Support Battalion (704th BSB) 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion (4th BSTB)
Some were under the control of KhAD-i-Nezami (the Afghan Army’s military intelligence wing), having airborne assault capabilities until 1988, just before the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. 37th Commando Battalion (Kabul, 1986) Formerly the 26th Airborne Regiment; 38th Commando Battalion (Parwan, 1986) 200th Reconnaissance Battalion
The helicopter battalions are often grouped into aviation brigades. There are also a few fixed-wing aircraft battalions, consisting of training aircraft, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail operational aircraft, and Beechcraft C-12 Huron / Cessna UC-35 transports for VIP personnel.
The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: قوای هوایی افغانستان), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, [1] was the aerial warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in April 1992.