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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alexander Schell, facilities management staff officer assigned to 3st Battalion, 71st Cavalry Squadron, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, shakes hands with an Afghan National Army soldier from 1st Afghan National Army Battalion, 1st ANA Brigade, 205th Hero Corps, who provided security for a mosque opening ceremony April 1, at Tarok Kolache village in Arghandab District. Schell, a native of Center Line, Mich., helped provide security for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the mosque. The mosque is the first completed structure in a massive joint reconstruction effort by Tarok Kolache landowners and International Security Assistance Forces since the village, previously a Taliban stronghold, was destroyed October 2010, in an effort to rid it of insurgents.
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Cpl. Anthony Gomez, field artillery tactical data systems specialist assigned to 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, ‘Top Guns’, currently attached to 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., shakes the hand of a young resident of Tarok Kolache, April 1, while Pfc. Roy Heggernes, infantryman assigned to ‘Tog Guns’, interacts with a young boy during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new village mosque. Gomez and Heggernes, both natives of Saint Paul, Minn., interacted with village residents who participated in celebrations during the event. The mosque is the first completed structure in a massive joint reconstruction effort by Tarok Kolache landowners and International Security Assistance Forces since the village, previously a Taliban stronghold, was destroyed October 2010, in an effort to rid it of insurgents.
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U.S. Army Spc. Jeff R. Cardoza, a designated marksman assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Warrior, scans the ridgeline and village below for enemy fighters after taking rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire March 15 at Observation Post Savannah. Cardoza, a Bakersfield, Calif., native, and his company have received enemy fire each of the five days they have manned the OP.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Luiz D. Alamo, a mortarman assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Warrior, unleashes six high-explosive, 60 mm mortars on an enemy fighting position after taking rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire March 15 at Observation Post Savannah. Alamo, a Charlotte, N.C., native, and his company have received enemy fire each of the five days they have manned the OP.
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