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On our road to the NATO Response Force (NRF) 2013 standby period we are finishing our ‘crawling’ phase.
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Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) has drawn a line under the Afghanistan deployment and has embarked on the road to NRF standby from January 2013. HQ ARRC will provide the headquarters commanding the land component of the joint force ready to deploy at short notice on any future NATO operation. For an introduction to the NRF read on...... |
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By the time you read this, Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) will be in the process of finishing its tour in
Afghanistan and the first people will be on their way back to Innsworth. Some of our people will have spent a full year away from home and for the others, like me, it will be the end of (only) 6 months away.
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Here in
Afghanistan, we are heading for the end of what is known as the "insurgent fighting season” and into the winter. So, we in the headquarters in
Kabul are becoming more focused on supporting the political phase of the annual cycle.
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It is a month since my last blog and this one coincides with the 10th Anniversary of the first "boots on the ground” in
Afghanistan on 7th Oct 2001.
Since my last post a lot has happened here in
Afghanistan, including plenty of television news and press articles suggesting that the situation is not improving and the military are in a state of denial. So, are we right or wrong, is the overall situation in
Afghanistan improving or not?
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It is an old cliché that when certain events happen, you can remember exactly what you were doing at the time. My parents recalled the assassination of President John Kennedy vividly. One of my first recollections was the initial landing on the moon on a very grainy black and white TV.
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Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wenham has completed his sixth month tour of duty as the Deputy Chief Public Affairs in the ISAF Joint Command in Kabul. As he hands over to his successor he looks back at some of the things that have been achieved during this time. |
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REPORTER Nadia Stone, who spent a week with the Allied Rapid Reaction Corp in Kabul, discovers how ARRC personnel are supporting the country.
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ISAF takes any claim of causing civilian casualties extremely seriously. This blog looks at the measures that are taken by ISAF as we continually work to prevent these tragic accidents from occurring, and the actions that are taken when claims are made. I appreciate this is an extremely emotive subject but it is one I believe would benefit from greater understanding of what we do.
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Well, we are already approaching the halfway point in the ARRC’s current tour of
Afghanistan augmenting the ISAF Joint Command Headquarters. Time has flown and many of us are contemplating going home at the end of our six month tour of duty. Spare a thought for those of us, and nearly all of our American friends, that will be here for a year. |