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They are excellent fighters and as we progress through the tour we will partner with more and more of them until we are working alongside a full Kandak, which is the equivalent of a British battalion.
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- Gen. Abdul Basir Salehzai of 1st Brigade, 205 Corps, confirmed that a battalion, known as Kandak 1, was about to take part in Operation Moshtarak or Together, which is a joint operation involving thousands of British army and U.S. marine assault troops as well as several Afghan battalions.
Dose.ca Music briefs 2010
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They are excellent fighters and as we progress through the tour we will partner with more and more of them until we are working alongside a full Kandak, which is the equivalent of a British battalion.
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In Uruzgan province, both U.S. and Australian Special Forces have contracted with a private army commanded by Col. Matiullah Khan, called Kandak Amniante Uruzgan, with 2,000 armed men, to provide security services on which their bases there depend.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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In Uruzgan province, both U.S. and Australian Special Forces have contracted with a private army commanded by Col. Matiullah Khan, called Kandak Amniante Uruzgan, with 2,000 armed men, to provide security services on which their bases there depend.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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But the Afghan National Army soldiers of the 209 Corps, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Kandak (battalion), fresh out of training in Kabul, were not ready for a fight.
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"Yes, we were fighting quite seriously through June very poorly reported--see here and here and July (but) the building was going on back here because we always had a Kandak (battalion) in the training phase and we were delivering courses and providing professional development to those people, so we've accomplished our mission," he said.
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The Americans are also expected to handle mentoring responsibilities for the new Kandak in southern Afghanistan.
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A fourth Afghan army Kandak, or battalion, is expected to be ready next spring.
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It will partner with Afghan National Army (ANA) Infantry Kandaks (Kandak is the Afghan word for “battalion”) and ANA Corps Headquarters.
Archive 2008-02-01 Military Mom 2008
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