New Combat Outpost Helps Counterinsurgency Fight in AfghanistanBy Army Capt. Ashley Dellavalle Special to American Forces Press Service
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan, May 7, 2008 – Army engineers have completed construction of a combat outpost on the Afghan-Pakistani border to reduce insurgent attacks there.
Soldiers of Company B, 864th Engineer Battalion, drill into the rocky earth to place charges used for blasting away rock. The soldiers set the conditions for a new combat outpost at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. U.S. Army photo (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.
