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Tongan Marines Join Afghan Forces

Tongan Marines Join Afghan Forces

A contingent of 55 Royal Tongan Marines traveled from their tiny South Pacific island to help support the efforts of Regional Command Southwest’s mission in Afghanistan. Although a small country, with a population of just over 100,000, the Tongans have a large mission here over the next six months. “Our mission here is force protection. We man the main entry point, we do the entry control point tasks, quick reaction force task and patrol in Camp Bastion,” … Read entire article »

Filed under: Afghanistan, Military, Our Allies, War on Terror

HESCO Barriers – a Photo Primer

HESCO Barriers – a Photo Primer

UPDARE: HESCO barriers at work in the Gulf of Mexico, protecting Louisiana from the BP oil spill: HESCO barriers go up in oil soaked Louisiana LA National Guard Builds Barriers in Cameron Parish The use of HESCO barriers for flood protection in North Dakota is new, and many do not know what they are. Here are a couple of pictures from the war front that show them under construction. Previous in series Next in seriesTable of contents for … Read entire article »

Filed under: Disasters, Military

Women’s Medicine in Afghanistan

Big things are happening in a small clinic a few miles outside Camp Bastion- the kind of things that change the collective ideas of a group of people. At the Shorabak clinic, everything looks like business-as-usual, at first. People come in, many of them locals, get treated and leave a little healthier and hopefully a little better informed than when they came in. The facility itself isn’t anything out of the ordinary. The building belongs to the Afghan national army and is shared between a group of ANA medics and a small team of medics with the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force. Sit down and stay a while though and someone might see something that isn’t seen every day at military clinics, local females coming in for care. That’s because at the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror