May 2009 - A.L.L. = Afghanistan Lessons Learned for Soldiers

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  • Dust Devils Spawned of Candy Sins

    A story inspired by memories dusted off by the Delta Bravo Sierra cartoon of 5/29/2009 and articles in Afghan Lessons Learned. It takes only a single pencil, a single piece of brass hitting the desert floor, a single piece of candy thrown to the single kid in the middle of the nowhere for hundreds or thousands of kids to pop up out of the desert dust. Kids are cool. Troops like kids. But they're curious and they can easily get out of hand in large numbers while standing still. Our policy was...

  • Maps-Afghanistan (One over the World)

    Maps - Afghanistan With the renewed focus on the first battleground in the War On Terror, Afghanistan, a reader has correctly suggested that some readers may be less familiar with some of the terrain and locations that often come up in discussions on this site. Other readers will be intimately aware of these areas in question and perhaps even recall the fine talcum dust so prevalent there. In the fine tradition of military style traditions, I'll begin with the one over the world. (Afghanistan...
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  • Chapter 5 A: The Beasts in the Northeast; RC Central (ANA 201st Corps Area)

    The RC Central, oftentimes referred to as the 201st Corps area, contains Parwan, Panjshir, Kapisa, Kabul, Logar, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan Provinces. Mostly mountainous, most valleys consist of barren mountains surrounding a relatively flat valley floor which is cultivated and irrigated. Terraced fields often climb the mountainsides in the more narrow valleys. Kabul and Kabul Province form the hub for this area. To the north, Parwan and Panjshir are relatively peaceful, as is northern...

  • Chapter 5- Welcome to the Real Wild West

    The following posting is from a Guest Contributer, Mike T. For those of you that will be stationed out in Western Afghanistan for your tour as I was, I have some advice for you.1. Do not listen to the bullshit that people state about the West: ITS DANGEROUS LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE.2. The West is mainly desert near the Hari Rud to about Shindad which starts become mountainous, from there to the main city of Heart you will find various build of infrastructure. Herat is the cultural center of Afghanistan...

  • ETT Training at FT Riley

    This is quite a long post and I'll divide it into two separate posts. The first being the training at FT Riley and the second will be deployment from FT Riley to Kabul. A friend of mine, in fact the guy that helped build this document, was just there and says that training hasn't changed much at all, this is BAD as I felt that the training was pretty much useless at prepping us to accomplish the bread and butter ETT mission. Combat Advisor. You will deploy with the skill set you show up there...
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