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Task Force Cujo Team Leader Sgt. Scott Shively laughs with District 11 Deputy Police Chief Col. Mohammad Arif after a key leader engagement to discuss successes, failures and needs of the Afghan police.

‘Cujo’ Sights Locked on Transition, Team Safety

2012/05/09 • Comments

Story and photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Chris Fahey NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan. KABUL – As Task Force Cujo’s armored tactical vehicles rolled up to the secure gates of the Afghan National Police’s District 11 headquarters, the mood grew ominous – a sense that indicated the 11-person coalition [...]

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French Army Lt. Gen. Olivier de Bavinchove, ISAF Chief of Staff, salutes the Mazar-e Sharif Training Center flag, Apr. 12, 2012, during a ceremony commemorating the end of the training mission there.

RTC Mazar-e Sharif holds graduation, turnover

2012/05/07 • Comments

“Our part as EGF was transferring all the competencies to the Afghans—logistics, planning and all the training,” said Gonzales. “We’ve had a great time with our Afghan counterparts. However, now it’s time for us to go home.”

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An Afghan National Civil Order Policeman carefully crushes away dirt from an area believed to contain an Improvised Explosive Device during a training exercise at the Camp Hero Explosive Hazards Reduction Course (EHRC) for Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in southern Kandahar province April 5. Thirty students spend four weeks learning from two coalition and two Afghan instructors about the Talibanâs tactics, how to identify vulnerable points, to confirm the presence of an Improvised Explosive Device, and how to remove the threat of IEDs. Coalition partners from Task Force Paladin (South) believe that solely Afghan instructors will staff the course by mid-to-late summer of this year.

ANSF teach their own to defeat explosives threat

2012/04/30 • Comments

“When we got to Afghanistan, we looked at the program that used to be in place and decided that we wanted to re-start it in mid-November. The first class was in early December,” said Beck. “We identify graduates with instructor potential and get approval to bring them onto the course as an apprentice instructor.”

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Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Colley prepares medical equipment prior to training Afghan medics on the equipment.

ANP Ambulance Gets Stocked with Medical Kits

2012/04/23 • Comments

“The bags are mostly set up for combat trauma,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Colley, a member of the medical advisory team. “[They’re intended] to stabilize a patient to transport them to a higher level of care. There isn’t anything in that bag that is intended to be permanent treatment for an injury.”

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An Afghan legal student raises his hand in order to answer a question during a class on legal affairs, in Kabul City Police District Eight, Apr. 4. NTM-A is a coalition of 37 troop-contributing nations charged with assisting the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in generating a capable and sustainable Afghan National Security Force ready to take lead of their country's security by 2014. For more information about NTM-A, visit www.ntm-a.com

Coalition Legal Advisors observe training

2012/04/23 • Comments

“There are many tools to fight crime, but nothing is more powerful than knowledge of the law,” said US Army Maj. Jaime Tijerina, an ANP Legal Development legal advisor, and one of the two observers. “[It] is the most important tool in protecting your communities.”

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Maj. Khakrizwa Rahmatullah, Dand District Chief of Police, oversees the destruction of more than 200 lbs. of marijuana discovered in the Dand District while more than 3,400 other Afghan security forces across Southern Kandahar Province conducted security operations, April 03, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. David Abrahams, Security Forces Assistance Team, Dand District)

Afghan Security Forces conduct major spring operation

2012/04/22 • Comments

The third day of a major security operation across Southern Kandahar Province increases the security in Panjwa’i, Daman and Dand Districts with the combined efforts of the 1st Brigade, 205th Atal “Hero” Corps; AUP; National Defense Services; and Afghan National Civil Order Police.

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Soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 205th Afghan National Army discovered and destroyed multiple enemy caches containing weapons, ammunition, and IED material, April 02, 2012 (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Andrew Geisler, Task Force Arctic Wolves Public Affairs)

Afghan Security Forces conduct second day of operations

2012/04/21 • Comments

The security operations are intent on disrupting insurgent activity in the area and to validate Afghan security forces’ ability to conduct complex ISAF-independent operations.

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Canadian Insp. Dean Lagrange, senior advisor to Afghan National Police chief of traffic, maps out traffic plans with a student before performing the practical application portion of traffic training April 5 in Kabul, Afghanistan. During the one day training, the students learned theory and basic traffic rules and regulations before working through practical scenarios and mock-ups. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Terri Barriere)

New ANP course targets traffic safety

2012/04/16 • Comments

“I absolutely believe we will be able to improve traffic in Kabul,” said ANP 1st Lt. Nabiullha, Airport Traffic Circle police and student. “Before, we were making mistakes, but now we will be able to recognize those mistakes and learn from them and learn how to better control traffic.”

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Soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 205th Afghan National Army load an MI-17 helicopter from the Kandahar Air Wing prior to conducting an air insertion into the village of Molla Dust in the Panjwa’i District of Southern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Andrew Geisler)

Afghan Army and Police Conduct Security Operation

2012/04/11 • Comments

Today’s operations resulted in the discovery and clearing of two improvised explosives in western Panjwa’i. No casualties were reported during the operations.

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Haji Mohammad Naseem, the deputy mayor of Kandahar, gives a certificate of completion to a graduate of a basic criminal investigation course, Mar. 29, 2012, during a graduation ceremony held at the Kandahar Training Center. A total of nine Afghan Border Police and guard force members completed the three and a half week course which taught lessons in improvised explosive device awareness, intelligence gathering and witness, victim, and subject interviews and statements.

Afghan Border Police and guard force complete investigation course

2012/04/11 • Comments

“Learning about collecting DNA samples was the most interesting part of the course for me,” Qahir continued. “I had an idea about forensics gathering, but now I know a lot more. I’ve taken plenty of notes that I will use back at the work force.”

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