| Regional Command Southwest Roundup 1 Secretary of the Navy visits Afghan training center CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus visited Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest aboard Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Sept. 20, to witness first-hand the ongoing training ofAfghan National Security Forces.(more)(watch video)By Cpl. Daniel Wulz, Regional Command SouthwestA sandstorm, IED and the squad that overcame GARMSIR DISTRICT, Afghanistan - In late May, an explosion changed the lives of a squad of Marines in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines.(more)By Cpl. Colby Brown, Regimental Combat Team 5Commandant of t he Marine Corps visits RCT-5 Marines and sailors CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan - Gen. James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaks to Marines and sailors with Regimental Combat Team 5 while Sgt. Maj. Michael P. Barrett, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, looks on here, Sept. 22.(more)By Regimental Combat Team 5Weekly Report, September 24, 2011 The following content summarizes a week’s worth of activity from Regional Command Southwest, commanded by Maj. Gen. John Toolan and covering Helmand and Nimroz Provinces, Afghanistan. The content was created by Marine Corps Combat Correspondents, Navy Mass Communication Specialists, Combat Camera and personnel with UK media operations under Task Force Helmand. Feel free to forward our stories to family, friends and loved ones supporting those who are deployed. Featured Stories
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Secretary of the Navy visits Afghan training center
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabusvisited Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest aboard Camp Leatherneck,
Helmand province, Sept. 20, to witness first-hand the ongoing training of
Afghan National Security Forces. (more) (watch video)
By Cpl. Daniel Wulz, Regional Command Southwest
A sandstorm, IED and the squad that overcame
GARMSIR DISTRICT, Afghanistan - In late May, an explosionchanged the lives of a squad of Marines in Charlie Company, 1st
Battalion, 3rd Marines.(more)
By Cpl. Colby Brown, Regimental Combat Team 5
Commandant of t he Marine Corps visits RCT-5
Marines and sailorsCAMP DWYER, Afghanistan - Gen. James F. Amos,
Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaks to Marines and
sailors with Regimental Combat Team 5 while Sgt. Maj.
Michael P. Barrett, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, looks
on here, Sept. 22.(more)
By Regimental Combat Team 5
Weekly Report, September 24, 2011
The following content summarizes a week’s worth of activity from Regional Command Southwest, commanded by Maj. Gen. John Toolan and coveringHelmand and Nimroz Provinces, Afghanistan. The content was created by Marine Corps Combat Correspondents, Navy Mass Communication SpecialistsCombat Camera and personnel with UK media operations under Task Force Helmand. Feel free to forward our stories to family, friends and loved onessupporting those who are deployed.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that MarineDavid Fairbrother, of Kilo Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, waskilled in Afghanistan on 19 September 2011. (more)
A UK military operations news article
Gurkhas train new elite Afghan police teams
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – Soldiers from 2nd Battalion TheRoyal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR) have been training new, elite teams of
Afghan Uniform Police (AUP) in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.(more)