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Training mission still lags in Afghanistan

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan -- Here in Afghanistan's Paktya Province, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police have a history of bad blood. The two sides shot it out in a gunbattle last year where the chief of...


Camping in Kalagu

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan - The U.S. Army's cultural profilers in far eastern Afghanistan - a Human Terrain Team, or HTT - left here Saturday in an armored convoy for Kalagu, one of the most dangerous areas in the region,...


Day in the life of the Texas National Guard Agri-business Development Team

GHAZNI, Afghanistan - The Texas National Guard Agri-business Development Team toured several sites in Ghazni Tuesday. It was a reminder of how hard it is to do anything in this country. The trip involved visits to a site for a...


Police still the weak link in Afghan security

FORWARD OPERATING BASE GHAZNI, Afghanistan - One year ago, I was here in Ghazni Province visiting a U.S. Army team training the Afghan police. Capt. Robert Bailey of Plano lead a team of eight trainers who were trying to help...


Polish commander stresses nation building

FORWARD OPERATING BASE GHAZNI, Afghanistan - NATO's top soldier in Ghazni Province is a swaggering colonel of the Polish Army who talks of keeping the talons sharp of his Task Force White Eagle. "The Taliban, they will not sleep well,"...


Watching the Obama inauguration with soldiers in Afghanistan

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - A sense of history enveloped Washington as a million or more people gathered in the cold for the Obama inauguration. A different sense of history coursed slowly through the dark night at this base in...

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