Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldiers played a key role in assisting Afghan Army forces in retaking meaningful ground from the Taliban in Kandahar province, Stars and Stripes reported Sunday.
Lewis-McChord’s 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment helped seize the “Road of Martyrs,” which Stripes’ Laura Rauch describes as a “10-mile stretch of red earth” that leads to the site of the 1880 Battle of Maiwand.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2012/12/10/jblm-stryker-soldiers-help-retake-road-of-martyrs-in-kandahar-province/
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