U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, International Security Assistance Forces commander, recites the oath of re-enlistment to 113 soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, at Forward Operating Base Joyce in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province April 11. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell.
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – An Afghan National Army soldier enters a house in Marawara District during a joint clearing, Operation Strong Eagle III, with Task Force No Slack Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Bastogne, in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province March 29. Insurgents used the area to stage attacks on International Security Assistance Forces and civilians. (Photo by U.S. Army Pfc. Cameron Boyd, 982nd Combat Camera)
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan commander, speaks to Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Honaker-Miracle in the Pech River Valley March 31. (Photo by U.S. Army Capt. Jonathan J. Springer, Task Force Bastogne)
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Farmers pack a room at the Agricultural Compound in Asadabad, the provincial capital, March 31 to celebrate Farmer's Day, an event underwritten by the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Shinn, 734th Agribusiness Development Team Public Affairs)
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U.S. Army Master Sgt. Bill Dunbar of Plymouth, Iowa, valued added processing specialist with the Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agribusiness Development Team, discusses the rapid progress made on the Bar Chage Demonstration Farm, March 13, with Haji Hazrat Ali Gul, a successful local fruit producer who owns the land on which the demonstration farm is built.
(Photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Shinn)
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Kunar Provincial government officials, Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team leadership and Afghan elders walk to the Mazaar Valley Road ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 25. The Mazaar Valley Road stretches 3.5 kilometers into Nurgol District’s populous Mazaar Valley. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Nicholas Mercurio, Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
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A 120 mm mortar round flies out of the tube as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ramey J. Brown (left), a section sergeant from Marshville, N.C., Spc. Tyler L. Dillon (center), a team leader from Williamstown, W.Va., and Pvt. Gabriel C. Fields (right), from Fort Worth, Texas, all mortarmen assigned to Troop C, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, Kunar take cover while at Observation Post Mustang in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Jan. 26. “It gets pretty intense sometimes when firing, especially if a firefight is going on,” said Dillon. Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell.
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Hosai Sediqi of San Diego, linguist for the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, is greeted by Afghan girls outside their home in Karula, a small town outside of Asadabad, the capital of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. The Iowa ADT visited the home Jan. 13 to conduct a quality assurance/quality control check of a small poultry project that provided 23 hens and two roosters to each of six families who live in Karula. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Shinn, 734th Agribusiness Development Team)
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Sgt. Richard A. Darvial (kneeling), a combat medic from Amery, Wis., takes cover while U.S. Army Spc. Corey C. Canterbury, a mortar man from Ocean Springs, Miss., fires mortars from a mountain top overlooking the Ganjgal Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Dec. 11. Both Soldiers are assigned to Bayonet Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, and were supporting Operation Eagle Claw II. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Capt. Pat Birgy of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., left, contracting officer for the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, and U.S. Army 1st Lt. Scott Rottinghaus of Waterloo, Iowa, production agriculture specialist for the ADT, right, visit through an interpreter with local farmer Mohammed Wali Abrahim and his family near Asadabad in Afghanistan's Kunar Province Nov. 30. The ADT conducted a foot patrol in the Asadabad area to assess winter crop conditions and build relationships with farmers in the area. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Shinn, 734th Agribusiness Development Team)
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U.S. Army Pfc. Martin L. Hauge, an infantryman from Collegedale, Tenn., assigned to Bushmaster Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bulldog, pulls security at a window while his fellow soldiers and Afghan National Army counterparts clear a village during the final phase of Operation Bulldog Bite in the mountains above the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province, Nov. 23.
Photo by Mark Burrell
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A Jamaican native, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. McCarthy Phillip (center), an infantry squad leader who resides in Decatur, Ga., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bulldog, and other soldiers patrol in a small village in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, Nov. 20. Photo by Mark Burrell.
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A teenage boy looks outside his door as U.S. Army Marcos E. Figueroa, a radio operator from Corozal, Puerto Rico, assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, provides security during a patrol of a village in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province Nov. 20. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)
An Afghan woman listens intently to a speech during the Women’s Justice Shura Nov. 30 at the Kunar Province Ministry of Culture and Information. Organized by the Kunar Province Department of Women’s Affairs, the shura brought together more than 80 women from across the province to discuss their collective issues and provide education on the 15-month-old legislation which bans violent and oppressive treatment of women. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Nicholas Mercurio)
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