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U.S. Special Forces Boost In Afghanistan
9 hours ago ago from Defense-Technology News
DTN News: U.S. Special Forces Boost In Afghanistan * Source: DTN News / Int'l Media Posted by Mc Parry on December 27th, 2009 (NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - December 28, 2009: US special forces have stepped up counter-terrorism missions against some of the most lethal groups in Afghanistan and plan an even bigger expansion next year, The New York Times has reported. Citing unnamed US military commanders, the newspaper said the ...
Related contentMulticam Experiment
15 hours ago ago from MANSIZEDTARGET.COM
The US Army has started fielding Multicam (and a version of its own uniform with brown mixed in) in Afghanistan. The Army adopted its blue-grey ACU pattern after ignoring tests that it had conducted showing the superiority of several other patterns. It's dubious to have a single world-wide camo in any case, but if there is to be such, the ACU is not it. A crummy camo is bad for esprit de corps and will get our soldiers killed. Consider, ...
Related contentU.S. Troop Fatalities Double in Afghanistan
14 hours ago ago from Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
A U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday raised the American death toll in 2009 to exactly twice the number of those soldiers killed there in that country in 2008. After eight years in Afghanistan, 940 U.S. and 613 coalition soldiers have died. Casualty statistics are available at iCasualties . JCL Agence France-Presse via Google News: A US solder was killed in Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, raising the American death ...
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18 hours ago ago from BLACKFIVE
U.S. Army soldiers establish a security perimeter after being inserted into a remote area to conduct combat operations in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith U.S. soldiers provide security before loading a CH-47 Chinook during an air assault mission Dec. 18, 2009, Parwan, Afghanistan. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Division's Company B, Special Troops Battalion. U.S. ...
Related contentElite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan
13 hours ago ago from IntelliBriefs
Kevin Frayer/Associated Press American and Afghan troops in Helmand Province. Special Operations units are stepping up attacks on insurgents, officers say. By ERIC SCHMITT Published: December 26, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/asia/27commandos.html?_r=1 =todayspaper BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Secretive branches of the military’s Special Operations forces have increased counterterrorism missions against some of the ...
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