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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]
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]
It was the second time in half a year that Norwegian and German ISAF forces had participated in a major offensive in the restless Badghis province in western Afghanistan. It was also the first time that the professional soldiers of the Telemark Battalion had participated in actual combat.
1: Ross Kemp in Afghanistan: 21 January — 18 February 2008 5 7 April 2008 [1] Contains all five episodes. 2: Return to Afghanistan: 1 February — 1 March 2009 5 6 April 2009 [2] Contains all five episodes. 3: Middle East: 3 January — 10 January 2010 2 19 April 2010 [3] Contains both episodes. 4: Back on the Frontline: 14 November — 12 ...
Between 1975 and 1977, under the presidency of Mohammed Daoud Khan, three more commando formations were established; the 466th Commando Battalion, 2nd Army Corps , the 666th Commando Battalion, 3rd Army Corps (Khost, Nadir Shah Kot) and a supposed 777th Commando Battalion stationed in Gardez, also under the control of the 3rd Army Corps.
On December 25, another video was released showing Bergdahl wearing sunglasses, a combat uniform, and helmet. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] He described his place of birth, deployment to Afghanistan, and subsequent capture and made several statements regarding his humane treatment by his captors, contrasting this to the abuses suffered by insurgents in ...
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 ...
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 ...