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French army takes up positions in Afghanistan

French army takes up positions in Afghanistan

In the middle of October, 80 French service members, mostly from the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade, arrived in Afghanistan to form the Task Force La Fayette Headquarters. Serving as part of Regional Command-East, TF La Fayette will assume responsibilities Nov. 2. The task force will be made up of two combined arms tactics teams in Kapisa and Paktika provinces and an aviation battalion. When the French service members arrived in Afghanistan, they started their in-processing, and … Read entire article »

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