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48 images Created 3 Nov 2012

Afghanistan - A Mission behind bullet-proof glass

There´re still two years remain before the ISAF mandate is going to end in Afghanistan. The Regional Command North (RC North) lead by german Bundeswehr is actually busy in handing over responsibility of security to afghan forces including army, police and other security personell. The germans activity of troops outside well protected military camps is very limited, causing a strengthening of insurgents in the northern afghan provinces. Areas ISAF troops controlled only a year ago are now getting lost again step by step to militant groups pulling in due to a lack of presence of ISAF. If troops like the US-Army enter this regions now they get regularly target by IED or ambushes causing them to withdrawal immediately. While foreign political leaders announcing positive outlooks on security development in Afghanistan local security forces in fact facing a bloody combat as closer a general withdrawal of forgein troops to come.
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  • Aerial view down on Northern Afghanistan in the Kunduz/Baghlan area, seen from a Helicopter.
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  • A door gunner waits at the FOB Kunduz while his Back Hawk helicopter is refueled.
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  • A helicopter taken off covers german soldiers in a dust cloud at OP North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • German Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • German flag flitters over DHQ Chahar Dareh, Northern Afghanistan
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  • A german pioneer platoon rides out PRT Kunduz on a re-supply mission to the District Headquaters in Chahar Dareh.
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  • A german pioneer platoon rides out PRT Kunduz on a re-supply mission to the District Headquaters in Chahar Dareh as it passes two afghan ladies covered in blue Burkas.
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  • A german pioneer platoon is off OP North to check culverts around to make sure safety bars are still fixed to avoid IED planting beneath the street.
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  • A german pioneer platoon is off OP North to check culverts around to make sure safety bars are still fixed to avoid IED planting beneath the street.
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  • An afghan police man stands a little mistrustful a german pioneer platoon off OP North to check culverts around to make sure safety bars are still fixed to avoid IED planting beneath the street.
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  • An afghan police man clears an old rusty mortar grenade found beside the road by german patrol.
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  • Watchtowers (Augen) at german Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • A german pioneer platoon is off OP North to check culverts around to make sure safety bars are still fixed to avoid IED planting beneath the street.
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  • German Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • German Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • A still sealed german Boxer armored vehicle has arrived at german OP North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • Watchtowers (Augen) at german Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • Watchtowers (Augen) at german Observation Point North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • ANA officers prepare a meeting room for talks with their afghan Camp Pamir Commander.
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  • A platoon of german OMLT forces during Advisory Meetings and Talks with their equivalent ranks of Afghan National Army members in Camp Pamir near Kunduz.
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  • A platoon of german OMLT forces during Advisory Meetings and Talks with their equivalent ranks of Afghan National Army members in Camp Pamir near Kunduz.
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  • A platoon of german OMLT forces during Advisory Meetings and Talks with their equivalent ranks of Afghan National Army members in Camp Pamir near Kunduz.
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  • Trainers give religion and writing lessons for Afghan National Army recruts in Camp Pamir near Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan
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  • Afghan National Army member fixes a side mirror of a army humvee vehicles at Camp Pamir carpark near Kunduz.
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  • An Afghan National Army leader at german OP North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • A Screenshot just seconds after an IED has hit a Husky vehicle to detect hidden IED in Nawabad. A Route Clearance Package (RCP) patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • Seconds after his convoi was rattled by an IED strike a US soldier checks the surrounding on his screen watching the Husky vehicle attend when the blast dust disperse. A Route Clearance Package (RCP) patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • Members of the RCP platoon collect debris and conservate evidences in and around the bomb crater shortly after their unit was hit by an IED in Nawabad. A Route Clearance Package patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • Members of the RCP platoon collect debris and conservate evidences in and around the bomb crater shortly after their unit was hit by an IED in Nawabad. A Route Clearance Package patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • US soldiers try to localize man suspected to trigger an IED before which hit a US-Army vehicle.  A Route Clearance Package patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • US soldiers try to localize man suspected to trigger an IED before which hit a US-Army vehicle.  A Route Clearance Package patrols to identify hidden IED´s along a certain road.
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  • While afghans build a shelter for battered women next to District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh, german pioneers set up a massive Hesco bag wall in between for security reasons.
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  • A local employee cleans the tabletop soccer from a thick dust cover at District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh.
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  • Soldiers stand a line for lunch at District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh.
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  • A german soldier tries to get an recently unloaded bag of fresh washed laundry hanging accidentially in the barbed wire at District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh.
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  • German soldiers in the courtyard of District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh.
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  • A cartoon seen in the german District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh, jokes over the Leadership of Provincial Advisory Task Force (PATF).
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  • A german soldier reads in the courtyard of District Headquarters, Chahar Dareh, as comrades return combat dressed from a job outside.
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  • During the regular flag ceremony at Police Training Center in Kunduz. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • Afghan police recuits during their daily training lessons. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • Afghan police recuits during their daily training lessons. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • Afghan police recuits during their daily training lessons. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • Afghan police recuits during their daily training lessons. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • Afghan police recuits during their daily training lessons. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • During the regular flag ceremony at Police Training Center in Kunduz. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • An afghan trainer inspects a dormitory of afghan police trainees. German and dutch police servicemen advise afghan trainer and recruits in PTC to improof education standarts of Afghan National Police.
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  • German Oberstleutnant M. (Lieutenant Colonel) speaks in front of his Battalion to gives an information update to his soldiers and to grant two of them with medals of honor at OP North, Northern Afghanistan
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  • German Oberstleutnant M. (Lieutenant Colonel) speaks in front of his Battalion to gives an information update to his soldiers and to grant two of them with medals of honor at OP North, Northern Afghanistan
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