Category: Blog – Afghan National Army
Afghan trainers taking the lead
If you are among the few folks who think building an army, while fighting an ongoing insurgency, is easy — you may want to rethink your position. The effort here is a bit more complicated than handing members of the Afghan national army and police rifles, then telling them to “Go get the bad guys.” [...]
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ANA chief of general staff welcomes home soldiers
By Graz GrazianoAdvisor to the Chief of the Afghan National Army “You were created as different tribes…but today you stand proudly as one Nation, one Army, and one Family,” said General Sher Mohammad Karimi, chief of the general staff for the Afghan National Army. Karimi traveled to welcome home a very excited and joyous kandak [...]
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Slow, Steady Progress in Training
By 1st Lt. Mark Larson It’s 8 a.m. on the second day of initial in-processing week for the most recent class of new Afghan National Army recruits at Mazar-e Sharif’s Remote Basic Warrior Training. All 1,404 new recruits, divided into their various companies, stand ready to start the day. Some will continue having their bio-metrics [...]
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Literacy in the Afghan National Army: Nourish Your Fellow Soldiers
“How many of you are literate (about half the hands)? How many of you are illiterate (the other half)? We have a saying in Afghanistan, ‘when a plant needs nourishment, we give it water’…we give it what it needs to be nourished. I want the first set of raised hands to nourish the second set [...]
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Afghan Ministry of Defence Information Officers Visit D.C. (Part 3)
On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mr. Randy Vickers, Director, U.S. Computer Incident Response Team (US-CERT) hosted Maj. Gen. Mahrab Ali Hussaini , Afghan Minister of Defense Chief Information (G6) Officer; Colonel Mohammad Sadiq Faqirsada, MoD G6 Deputy Director of Cable/Telephone Operations; and Col. Glenn Powell, Director CJ6, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan to a series of briefs covering [...]
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Breaking ground in Afghanistan for future training
By Capt. Tamara Gonzales NTM-A Growing the Afghan National Army requires training the force, taking Afghan recruits and turning them into the country’s future fighting force. At the Kabul Military Training Center, ANA and NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan coalition trainers work together to train more than 60% of ANA soldiers and 90% of ANA [...]
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Afghan Infomation Officers Meet U.S. Officials In D.C.
Maj. Gen. Mahrab Ali Hussaini , Afghan Minister of Defense G6; Col. Mohammad Sadiq Faqirsada, MoD G6 Deputy Director of Cable/Telephone Operations; and Col. Glenn Powell, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan CJ6 join Mr. Rob Carey, Deputy Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO); and Ms. Pat Gamble, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) [...]
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Strategic Initiatives Conference Held at Kabul International Airport
The Strategic Initiatives Team of the personnel division (CJ1) hosted a Strategic Initiatives Conference on Kabul Internation Airport (KAIA) Oct. 28. Those in attendance were corps advisors and ISAF Joint Command (IJC) partners. Great feedback from attendees on possible solutions and thoughts concerning the topics briefed: Personnel Information Management System/Afghan Human Resources Information Management System (PIMS/AHRIMS), [...]
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Building for the Afghan Army in Urzagan
In Urzagan Province, in the south of Afghanistan, about 30km south of Tarin Kowt the home of a new infantry kandak (battalion) of the 205th Corps is being constructed. A dedicated team of Afghans, Americans, and South Africans are creating a home for 800 soldiers on the valley floor. Astride the Kandahar to Tarin Kowt [...]
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Afghanistan Honors Local Heroes
Members of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for Afghanistan got together to Honor those who have died for the future of Afghanistan. The ceremony reminded me of some similarities to things we do in America for our veterans. The celebration was in honor of Martyr Week, and although it was delayed from the actual week [...]
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