Monday, February 13, 2012

3rd Infantry Division Learns about Village Stability Operations (VSO)

The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division recently spent two weeks at Fort Irwin's National Training Center (NTC) learning about the Village Stability Operations (VSO) mission they will be conducting in Afghanistan.  Upon reaching Afghanistan the Soldiers will be split up into small units - squad or platoon sized elements - and attached to special operations forces detachments (Special Forces, SEALs, and MARSOC) conducting Village Stability Operations.  This has been successfully done with two other infantry battalions over the past year with great results - allowing SOF to expand their footprint in key areas of Afghanistan as they set up VSO sites and establish local units of Afghan Local Police or ALP. Read more in "Fort Irwin training creates new sort of soldier", The Sun, February 12, 2012.

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