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Security forces enhances situational awareness with Innovation
Airmen at Thule Air Base are adopting a new land mobile radio system, enhancing their communications capabilities. Known as Terrestrial-Trunked Radio, or TETRA for short, this LMR system’s employment will result in enhanced situational awareness, removal of a redundant command and control node, savings of one security forces post, and enhanced emergency services interoperability across [...]
NATO Seeks Funding for Afghan Security Forces
Afghanistan needs further funding for its police and army if it is to secure the peace after international troops pull out in 2014. But many potential donors are concerned about Afghanistan’s track record on corruption. Everybody wants to help, but few are willing to provide exact figures. That just about sums up the stance of [...]
Afghan security forces kill three ISAF soldiers
Two British and one American soldier were killed by Afghan security personnel Monday in two separate shootings, officials said, bringing the number of such deaths to 16 this year. An Afghan soldier said to be an officer shot dead the Britons in the southern province of Helmand, while the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said [...]
Training Kicks Off for NATO Mentors in Afghanistan
Almost 300 troops from eight countries, all bound for Afghanistan to mentor Afghan national security forces, kicked off a rigorous pre-deployment training rotation yesterday in Hohenfels, Germany. Ten operational mentor liaison teams converged on the Joint Multinational Readiness Center for 17 days of training designed to prepare them for a mission critical to the transition [...]
US lawmaker urges delay in arms sales to Bahrain
The United States should delay the sale to Bahrain of any items in a proposed $53 million weapons package that could be used against protesters there, a US senator said Thursday. “I urge the administration to delay the sale of any items within the proposed weapons package that could be used to disrupt peaceful dissent,” [...]
Lessons From Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan
Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. The outcome of the campaign hinges, in large measure, on the effectiveness of the assistance given to the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, and other security forces, assistance that the International Security Force [...]
Security forces train Iraqi air force security forces
Members of the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron spent several weeks in March and April training 12 Iraqi security forces airmen from New Al Muthana Air Base on force protection techniques. Fourteen security forces members trained the Iraqis on procedures and techniques used every day by the U.S. Air Force. “They’re getting the basics they [...]
Multinational Force Leads Helicopter Operations in Afghanistan
The ISAF mission in Afghanistan is, by its very nature, a multinational, multi-Service one. However, there are few units that embody this international partnership better than the Joint Helicopter Force (Afghanistan) [JHF(A)]. JHF(A) forms part of the Joint Aviation Group, commanded by Group Captain Nick Laird. This in turn forms part of the US 3rd [...]
General Seeks to Build Professional, Sustainable Afghan Forces
KABUL, Afghanistan: Building Afghan security forces that are capable, professional and sustainable is going to take a long time, but also is key to long-term success, the general who leads the NATO training mission in Afghanistan said here today. Army Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV explained the effort to reporters traveling with Navy Adm. [...]
