Soldiers from the 2nd Kandak Graduate

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Soldiers from 2nd Kandak, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps graduate. This is the final phase of 2nd kandak’s training. After graduation, they will be stationed in Kabul. 01/09/2010

in Politics, on the 1st of September 2010

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Soldiers from 2nd Kandak, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps graduate. This is the final phase of 2nd kandak’s training. After graduation, they will be stationed in Kabul.

ID: 427221

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Soldiers from 2nd Kandak, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps graduate. This is the final phase of 2nd kandak’s training. After graduation, they will be stationed in Kabul.

ID: 427220

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The ANA Commando Brigade are part of the Afghan National Army and were formed from existing Infantry battalions. The program was established in early 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional battalion from each of the ANA Corps, giving them special training and equipment and reorganizing based on a United States Army Rangers Battalion. Each Battalion is assigned to one of the 5 military corps.

The training is conducted at the Morehead Commando Training Center, a former Taliban training compound and is located six miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The training center is named after 5th Special Forces Group soldier MSG Kevin Morehead, who was killed in Iraq in September 2003.

Photos by Donald Reeves.