The reconnaissance platoon has been used for everything but reconnaissance, convoy escort, guarding the PRT etc etc. When they were assigned another one of those ops the platoon CO and a NCO objected, differences of opinion are not that rare and I don't know what caused this one to get out of...
As far as I can tell no orders were refused. There were/are tensions in the platoon over the fact that they are constantly used for protection tasks instead of reconnaissance.
The fact that the Dutch armed forces have unions (which are nowhere near the same as your ordinary unions) is...
A total of 177 persons take part in this poll, 86 males and 91 females. 73 of them are between 16-30 years age and 104 are over 30 years of age.
Trends are that every month in which a lot of casualties (either wounded or killed) are reported the polls show the support going down, when it's a...
Not just Chora. Operation Spin Gahr was another combat operation and there have been several smaller scale operations in Uruzgan (mainly deh rawod district) as well. There is barely any international media coverage though, unless Dutch KIA are reported.
The Dutch MOD only released a very small picture and the note in it's weekly magazine. You could not see the detail that you see in these pics. No details were released regarding the circumstances of this attack.
Amnesty is accusing all those countries without having any facts. They suspect torture taking place or have heard anything to that extent and suddenly all the NATO nations are complicit in torturing Afghans. It probably works with the media lapping everything up as long as itás negative news for...
Ok I thought you meant something different.
A sign like that is useless in Afghanistan though, the vast majority of the people there can't read. But I get the sentiment.
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