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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)
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.
Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan Battle of Takur Ghar: 4 March 2002: 5 March 2002: The peak of Takur Ghar: Battle: A helicopter caring a SEAL team went down and began receiving fire from hostile forces Battle of ...
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 ...
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]
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
Operation Herrick began in 2002 on the end of Operation Fingal, which saw Britain hand command of the ISAF force to Turkey.At that point, the deployment was scaled back from 2,100 to approximately 300, primarily concerned with security in Kabul, and manning the UK Afghan National Army Training Team (UKANATT).