Tag: deployment
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Carney named player of the week
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 – Combined Afghan-coalition forces seized 1,180 pounds of hashish during operations conducted over the past two days in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, military officials reported. An Afghan-coalition patrol discovered more than 220 pounds of hashish in the Panjwai district today, officials said. Yesterday, officials said, combined patrols discovered…
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Sky Sox one game out of first place in division
KABUL, Afghanistan — The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Sunday that this year’s pullout of 23,000 American troops is at the halfway mark. But he cautioned against putting too much emphasis on the drawdown, saying that foreign troops will fight through 2014 when the NATO combat mission ends — and…
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Elam one true thing for Broncos
Sgt. 1st Class Walter Taylor’s 13-year Army career boiled down to mere seconds in Afghanistan’s volatile Wardak province. A roadside bomb had thrown his platoon’s 22-ton Buffalo vehicle 10 feet into the air, tossing it off the road like a toy. Five of his soldiers were wounded. Small-arms fire peppered the soldiers. A black car…
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Fans flock from Colorado Springs to watch ceremony
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban said they detonated a bomb on a fuel tanker Wednesday and then opened fire on other NATO supply trucks in a morning attack that destroyed 22 vehicles loaded with fuel and other goods for U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. Elsewhere in the country, two NATO service members were killed in…
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Seems like old times: Portis, Denver to reunite
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2012 – The man who oversaw the logistics of the military withdrawal from Iraq sees a greater challenge coming in the Afghan drawdown, describing it as ‘huge”. Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told reporters logistics is a much bigger part of his job than he thought…
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Driver goes from worst to first to win at PPIR
WASHINGTON — Images from spy planes and sensors that detect wires that trigger explosives have helped to mitigate the No. 1 threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan — roadside bombs — over the past year. The Pentagon has filled the skies over Afghanistan with high-tech sensors, and the effect has been measurable. From March through…
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Some avid NASCAR fans travel from track to track
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, July 13, 2012 – Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Black moved back toward the mine clearance vehicle to watch from a safe distance as a team traced the wire of a suspected improvised explosive device back toward the road. Black’s military working dog, Lobo, was held on the end of a leash as…
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Broncos cut Mobley after failing his physical
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Three weeks of relative calm was shattered when the first crack of gunfire whizzed across the combat outpost and was followed by a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades. The explosions sent a handful of soldiers tumbling to the ground. U.S. and Afghan forces returned fire on the unseen assailants in the nearby…
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Rockies’ Cook feels at home in breakout performance over Dodgers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are working. Of the 2.6 million service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s estimated that…
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Club unwilling to bring Francis up, so far
Moving the mountain of military gear out of Afghanistan after more than a decade of war will cost billions of dollars and prove far more difficult than last year’s withdrawal from Iraq, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Tuesday. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the Pentagon’s point man for overseeing the draw down in Afghanistan,…