The Pakistani military then launched a mortar strike on the insurgents’ firing location inside Pakistan.

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During the battle that followed, Bergstad was knocked out of his turret three times by enemy fire. The first time his truck was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. The second time he was shot through the right biceps by an armor-piercing incendiary round. Bergstad was thrown from his vehicle a third time when his vehicle was again struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. Each time he fought his way back into the turret to continue engaging the enemy.

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Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF defeated two insurgent attacks in eastern Afghanistan Nov. 16.

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According to the citation narrative, Sgt. 1st Class Ray Plasterer and his team were conducting a patrol in a rural area and were caught in a surprise attack initiated with rocket propelled grenades, small arms fire, and fragmentary grenades resulting in five wounded friendly forces and four friendly forces killed in action. Plasterer’s actions, along with his team, saved numerous lives and led to a decisive victory and the death of 22 enemy combatants.

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Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition forces Saturday night killed 38 militants in the Nahr Surkh District, Helmand province.

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“People are friendlier; they get to know our faces, know who we are,” Lance Corporal Kenny Wilson of Kingston Upon Hill said. “Throughout the city there is development everywhere; there are new buildings getting built left, right and centre. There are new road surfaces being laid. Traffic lights, street lights, electricity, running water and sewage systems have improved in certain areas. Community spirit is a lot better. You see more people out, and more women getting involved in daily activities.”

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ISAF and Pakistani soldiers observed all fired artillery rounds. The Pakistan soldiers assured ISAF that they would engage any insurgents attempting to flee deeper into Pakistan.

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Simmons, who just left the Army this week to attend college in Florida, was honored for his actions during a June 8 attack near the end of the battalion’s rotation. Enemy forces attacked while a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was in the process of lifting a vehicle off the compound.

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Members of a New York Army National Guard security force company in Kabul recently completed a long, round-trip convoy from Kabul to Farah in western Afghanistan - a distance of more than 1,000 miles — without enemy contact.

About 40 members of Company D, 2nd Squadron 101st Cavalry successfully escorted members of an embedded training team that were moving with their assigned Afghan national army unit to its forward deployed station.

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Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips, mortar platoon sergeant for Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, also known as “The Rock,” was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Sept. 15, 2008, in Vicenza, Italy for his actions Aug. 22, 2007, at Ranch House in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

The DSC is the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the Army, and only the fifth awarded to a servicemember during Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Coalition forces killed nineteen armed militants and detained three suspected militants during multiple operations to disrupt the Haqqani, Taliban and al-Qaeda improvised explosive device and foreign fighter networks in eastern Afghanistan, Friday [October 31 2008].

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