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Coalition Special Operations Forces
assist Afghan officials in aftermath of school explosion in Zormat
CJSOTF-A Public Affairs
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN – Coalition Special Operations Forces medics, along with Afghan
National Army personnel, rushed to help Afghan victims of an
explosion that ripped through a school in Zormat on Saturday killing
10 people, including a man, five teens and four young children.
Coalition and Afghan medics treated more than 20 Afghan students who
were injured in the blast.
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Coalition Special Operations Forces
conduct raid, kill enemy leader
CJSOTF-A Public Affairs
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN – Coalition Special Operations Forces and Afghan military forces
raided an anti-coalition compound and killed a senior enemy leader
in a mission Aug. 27 in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.
During the well-planned strike mission, an enemy regional leader,
known as Rozi Khan, was killed after he opened fire during the
surprise strike. Coalition SOF and Afghan military forces conducted
a cordon and search mission after receiving intelligence reports of
Taliban activity in the Zabul Province area. Coalition forces
engaged about 23 guerrillas during an approximate hour-long
firefight.
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Chaplain Works to Rebuild Muslim
Mosques
By Sgt. Maj. Keith D. Butler, CJSOTF-A
Public Affairs
KONAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN – A military chaplain is spreading good
will in villages by working with local religious leaders to
refurbish and rebuild centerpieces of the Muslim society – mosques.
In six months, a Combined Joint Special Operations Task
Force-Afghanistan chaplain and local Muslim leaders worked hand in
hand to secure funds and direct the rebuilding of nine mosques.
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Special Forces retrieve munitions cache in
Pesch Valley
By Spc. Daniel P. Kelly, 25th ID (L) Public Affairs Office
PESHE VALLEY, Afghanistan - Special Operations Forces deployed in
support of Operation Enduring Freedom are recovering hidden enemy
munitions throughout the country.
One small group of ‘Green Berets’ recovered a large cache of weapons
and ammunition May 11 when they were given a local tip that a man
hid munitions in his home in a small village in northeastern
Afghanistan.
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Special Forces
clinic treats Afghan citizens
Sgt. Frank Magni, 17th Public Affairs
Detachment
KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – For many in Afghanistan, access to
proper medical care is very limited. A lack of medical training and
equipment within community clinics has prompted Coalition forces to
send their own medical personnel into communities to assist.
But in Konar Province, medical civilian aid projects are also being
supplemented with an unconventional approach. The same clinic that
treats Coalition forces at this Special Forces A-camp leaves its
doors open for Afghan citizens, as well.
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ER Doctor Picks
Afghanistan Over Country Club
Sgt. Frank Magni, 17th Public Affairs
Detachment
KONAR PROVINCE,
Afghanistan – Back in the United States, the surgeon at the Special
Forces clinic can normally be seen in a Harley Davidson T-shirt. His
appearance normally doesn’t convey the fact that he is a doctor, let
alone one that graduated from Harvard Medical School. Then again, a
lot about him defies the norm, including his reasons for coming to
Afghanistan.
The surgeon, an
emergency room doctor from the Midwest of the United States, served
in Afghanistan for eight months as a battalion surgeon for Combined
Joint Special Operations Command-Afghanistan practicing medicine in
the hinterlands near the border.
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Coalition Special Operations Forces drop
humanitarian assistance...
Combined Joint Special Operations Task
Force - Afghanistan,
Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan
By Sgt. Maj. Keith Butler, CJSOTF-A Public Affairs
SOUTHWESTERN, AFGHANISTAN –
In what was dubbed Operation Independence, Coalition Special
Operations Forces dropped humanitarian assistance supplies from a
Special Operations plane in the area where SOF captured two top
enemy leaders six days earlier.
“We are following up a successful strike operation where we captured
two enemy Taliban leaders with a mission that’s demonstrates the SOF
capability to capitalize on success with more success,” said Lt.
Col. Doug Marrs, a senior plans officer for the Combined Joint
Special Operations Task Force. “Operation Independence is a
continuing initiative to free the Afghan people from terrorist
oppression.”
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DoD
official updates Congress on special ops transformation
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, American
Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, March 30, 2004) — With
the help of special operations forces, the United States has made
significant progress in the war on terrorism, a Defense Department
official told the Senate Armed Services Committee March 25.
But sustaining that progress is not without its costs, he added.
Thomas W. O'Connell, assistant secretary of defense for special
operations and low-intensity conflict, said in his prepared
statement that for the U. S. Special Operations Command to continue
to gain momentum in the war on terrorism, it must modernize and
transform. And he said USSOCOM will use $6.546 billion -- its share
of the President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget request — to do so.
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Sergeant Major of the Army visits special operations troops
By
Jennifer Whittle U.S. Special Operations Command Public Affairs
Office
MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (USASOC News Service, March 12, 2004) —
The Army’s top enlisted Soldier visited with multiservice troops
from the U.S. Special Operations Command here March 10, fielding
both questions and comments on topics ranging from Iraq to upcoming
uniform changes.
“We are an Army at war for a nation that is at war,” said Sgt. Maj.
Of the Army Kenneth O. Preston during his visit to USSOCOM. “Our
Soldiers are the best trained, the best equipped — and their morale
is high. We are a combat land force and we are ready to do what the
ground commander needs.”
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"Father of Special Forces" dies at age 101 in Calif. home
U.S. Army Special Operations Command
Public Affairs Office
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, April 2, 2004) — The man most
often credited with founding the U.S. Army Special Forces died April
1 at his home in Dana Point, Calif., at the age of 101.
Retired Army Col. Aaron Bank, known throughout the military’s
special operations community as “The Father of Special Forces,” died
of natural causes with his family at his side.
Bank most notably broke new ground when in 1952 he was named
commander of the Fort Bragg-based 10th Special Forces
Group (Airborne) — the Army’s first official special warfare unit,
for which he had led the fight to create.
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Special operators get fans revved-up at NASCAR race
By Spc. Jennifer J. Eidson
U.S. Army Special Operations Command
HAMPTON, Ga. (USASOC News Service, March 15, 2004) — It wasn’t
seeing Dale Earnhardt Jr. zoom into the winner’s circle that first
brought the fans to their feet — a group of otherwise ‘quiet
professionals’ did that before the race had even started.
In front of thousands of cheering NASCAR fans, Soldiers, Sailors and
Airmen from the U.S. Special Operations Command helped jump-start
the Golden Corral 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway here March 14
when they demonstrated some of their military capabilities during
prerace festivities.
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Miami-based civil affairs battalion takes on Baghdad community
missions
By Sgt. 1st Class Clarence Kugler
478th Civil Affairs Battalion
BAGHDAD, Iraq (USASOC News Service, March 18, 2004) — The 478th
Civil Affairs Battalion arrived in Baghdad Feb. 4 to replace the
long-serving 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion, and the newly arrived
unit hasn't wasted any time in getting out into the community to
continue the 422nd's existing projects and establish some new ones
with local advisory councils.
“Our soldiers are happy to finally be on the ground in Iraq and to
be working with the local citizens in improving the lives of the
citizens,” said Lt. Col. Colonel Wilfredo Rosario, commander of the
478th CA Bn., an Army Reserve unit from Miami, Fla.
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