
(Photo by CPL Joseph Scanlon, USMC)
Read more in "Infantrymen work hand in hand with Afghans during counterinsurgency exercise", DVIDS, December 19, 2013.
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Graduates of the OCC Foundation Course hold the completion certificates. (Photo Spc. Philip Steiner) |
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An instructor with the 8th Commando Kandak provides range commands during training. (U.S. Navy Photo by MCS 2nd Class Jacob Dillon) |
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Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael James |
"The largest-ever freshman class at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan is learning to shine boots, read a map and balance a full load of college courses as the Afghan National Army desperately tries to boost its officer corps. Inside a Soviet-era air academy near the Kabul Airport where unexploded ordnance and rusting Soviet aircraft parts sat in bombed out buildings, the Afghan National Army has built its own version of West Point. Five years after the first 120 cadets enrolled in the National Military Academy of Afghanistan, 296 new Afghan officers have graduated."Read the rest of the article in "Largest class enters Afghan military academy", Army Times, October 19, 2010.