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Taliban Captured Ince Freedom Watch Staff Contents Oct. 20, 2008 Commander, AFN Afghanistan Air Force Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt Superintendent, AFN Afghanistan Senior Master Sgt. Brent Squires Editor/Print NCOIC Tech. Sgt. Kristina Barrett Layout/Design 3 Air Force Staff Sgt. Marcus McDonald Layout/Design Afghan forces receive Senior Airman George Cloutier NATO weapons Graphics Support Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael McCool The Freedom Watch magazine is a weekly publication of AFN Afghanistan and Combined Joint Task Force 101. 4 Commander, CJTF-101 Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser Public Affairs Director, CJTF-101 New stragegy to broaden Army Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green scope, coordination Freedom Watch, a U.S. Department of Defense publication, is published each Monday by the AFN Afghanistan’s Print Section located in Bldg. 415, Room 205 at Bagram Air Field, Af- ghanistan. Printed circulation is 5,000 copies per week. In accordance with DoD Instruction 5120.4, this DoD magazine is an authorized 5 publication for members of the U.S. military overseas. Contents of the Freedom Watch are not necessarily the official view of, or endorsed Soldiers, Sailor secure by, the U.S. government or the Department of safe passage Defense. Deadline for submissions is noon local each Friday. All submissions are subject to editing by AFN Print Section staff, which can be reached at DSN 318-431-4458. An Afghan National Policeman pulls security at a village in Kohistan District in Kapisa province, 6 Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jean-Paul Li) Realism in training , om? ag Coalition and Afghan forces and information operations. Where is your unit deployed fr JTF Paladin is a permanent unit unit?assigned to the theater personnel rotate in and out of the unit but the unit fl U.S. Army stays here. Joint Task Force Paladin What’s the history of your CSM David Puig, JTF JTF Paladin was established in 2006 and quickly grew to -IED Country, Branch of Service: a brigade-sized command with personnel providing CIED unit?The mission of JTF Name of Unit/Offi ce/Shop: support throughout the entire theater of operations. Person Making Submission: Paladin Command Sergeant Major What’s the mission of your Paladin is to provide intelligence based Counter (CIED) support to all U.S. forces throughout the theater of operations. This is accomplished through attacking the IED networks, defeating the IED threat, training the U.S., 8 Taking back the youth Members of Joint Task Force Paladin at Bargram Air Field, Afghanistan pose for a photo. (Photo by U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kimberly Crawford) 1 NEWS in Afghanistan SECAF visit by Article III of the Geneva Con- ventions, we continually work to ecretary of the Air Force Michael B. improve processes that relate to SDonley spent the day at the 380th detainees.” Air Expeditionary Wing Oct. 12, 2008. This program was created as a Donley visited result of recommendations made the wing to by the International Committee of gain a better the Red Cross. understanding The existing video teleconfer- of the infra- ence program, which allows direct structure and U.S. provides medical video conversations between de- capabilities of assistance tainees and family members, has one the area been proven to improve detainee behavior, helping to prompt the of respon- .S. Forces – Afghanistan provided creation of this new program of sibility’s most medical attention to a local national U face-to-face visits. diverse bases. child who came to a Forward Operating Video teleconferences will con- “I’ve been looking forward to Base in the Khogyani district of the tinue to be available for detainees coming downrange to see how the Nangarhar province in northeastern and their families. United States Military, and especially Afghanistan. the Air Force, has been doing,” Donley At approximately 4:30 p.m. a child said to an assembly of Airmen during was brought to the gate of a Forward Militants killed his visit. The Secretary’s tour included Operating Base for medical attention for fghan National Security a visit to the 380th’s tenant unit, the a gunshot wound. It is unclear how the Forces and Coalition Forces 363rd Training Group. This group child was shot; however, prior to him A killed 12 mil- hosts and orchestrates aerial exercises being brought to the FOB the Afghan itants in Sha- and tactical training in both joint and National Army was conducting a live- heed Hasas combined fields. fire rifle range on the base, practicing District, Oru- with numerous kinds of weapons. The zgan prov- situation is under investigation. Taliban captured ince. U.S. Forces - Afghanistan gave immediate The forces attention and then medically evacuated embers of the National were con- him to a hospital where he was treated Directorate of Security and ducting a security patrol when they M and then released. Coalition forces captured a Taliban were attacked by militants. commander Local Afghan villagers told and three Face-to-face visits ANSF and Coalition forces that additional militant fire killed 10 Afghan civil- persons of he U.S. military now provides ians in a nearby village. interest in Troutine face-to-face visits between Militant fire also injured three Kandahar detainees held at women and six children who sought province. the Bagram The- out Coalition Forces for medi- NEWS BRIEFS Hafiz Abdul Khaliq, a known Taliban ater Internment cal care. All of the injured were commander, and three militants were Facility and their medically evacuated to a Coalition located through intelligence reports families. hospital where they are being treat- in known safehouses in Panjwayi “We understand the positive impact ed for their injuries. District. these types of programs can have on the Shortly after the engagement, Hafiz Abdul Khaliq is responsible mission here in Afghanistan, particularly ANSF and Coalition Forces met for several attacks against Afghan in terms of detainee behavior,” said Brig. with local leaders and family mem- National Security Forces and Coalition Gen. James McConville, deputy com- bers of the deceased, who expressed forces. manding general of support for Com- their gratitude for Coalition Forces No NDS or Coalition forces were bined Joint Task Force-101. “Not only in treating those injured by the in- injured or killed during the operation. do we meet the standards put in place surgents. 2 Afghan forces receive NATO weapons By Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Graham Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan fghan National Security Forces will Areceive a huge capability and mobil- ity boost throughout the next year. The ANSF will receive more than 6,000 up-armored vehicles and more than 75,000 M-16 rifles from Combined Secu- rity Transition Command - Afghanistan. “This is great,” said Army Maj. Charles McPhail, chief of plans and requirements. “The Afghan National Army will become a modernized army with Humvees and NATO weapons. This transformation will help usher their forces into the 21st century.” McPhail cited the M-16 rifle’s accura- cy and durability since its introduction as U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Graham the primary weapon for the U.S. military ANA soldiers receive M-16 rifles at the Afghan national weapons depot. more than 30 years ago. The Russian-built AK-47 has been military leaders prefer the M-16 rifle. “The Afghan government wanted a the primary weapon of the ANA since its “Accuracy will always be more im- weapon that doesn’t waste shots, which formation, but Afghan government and portant than lots of shots,” said McPhail. is the reason they asked for the M-16.” Afghanistan’s solution primarily political, general says By Gerry Gilmore American Forces Press Service he war against radical Islamists operating in Afghanistan Twill be won, despite the challenges, the senior U.S. mili- tary officer in the country said. “I am more convinced than ever that the insurgency will not win in Afghanistan,” Army Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, told Pentagon reporters. The White House is conducting a review of Afghanistan operations and strategy, as insurgents there have ramped up operations against U.S., Coalition and Afghan forces. McKiernan has requested that additional troops be sent to Afghanistan to help quell rising violence in some eastern and U.S. Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward southern provinces committed by Taliban, al-Qaida and other U.S. Army Gen. David McKiernan briefs the Pentagon press corps terrorists. The four-star general told reporters he is optimistic on operations in Afghanistan. about defeating the insurgents. Most Afghans, he said, “do not “The idea that it might get worse before it gets better is want a return of the Taliban; they don’t want a return of a radi- certainly a possibility,” the general said. cal form of government, such as the Taliban.” McKiernan cited increased foreign fighter activity in He added U.S. military analysts see “greater insecurity” in eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan as a key some eastern and southern sections of Afghanistan. concern. 3 New strategy to broaden scope, coordination in Afghanistan By Donna Miles the people that are killing American Forces Press Service Afghans, Americans and all our Coalition part- he changing situation in Af- ners.” Tghanistan, particularly increased Mullen expressed violence along the Afghan-Pakistan hope that progress in border, warrants a full review of U.S. Iraq will continue, en- strategy there to broaden its scope and abling force reductions improve interagency coordination, the to continue and freeing top U.S. military officer said. up forces to meet addi- Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman tional requirements in of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted the Afghanistan.
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