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Strykers Mission in Afghanistan

Apr-30-2009 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

Via FOB Tacoma we learn from an article in The New York Times what is likely to be the initial mission of the 5/2 SBCT when it deploys to Afghanistan this summer.

ZANGABAD, Afghanistan — American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into the three provinces that bankroll much of the group’s operations. [...]

Many of the new American soldiers will fan out along southern Afghanistan’s largely unguarded 550-mile-long border with Pakistan. Among them will be soldiers deployed in the Stryker, a relatively quick, nimble armored vehicle that can roam across the vast areas that span the frontier.

All of the new troops are supposed to be in place by Aug. 20, in order to provide security for Afghanistan’s presidential election.


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