Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 11
This edition features a story on Adm. Gary Roughead visiting service members in Afghanistan and Soldiers taking a combat lifesaver course. Hosted by Spc. Jennifer Dolsen
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update
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Freedom Watch Update - Jan 12
This edition features stories about coalition forces discovering drugs and weapons, and U.S. service members receiving training on the new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle (MATV). Hosted by Senior Airman Joshua Adkins.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 13
This edition features stories on a gathering of Mullahs (Afghan religious leaders) from the Karabal District in eastern Afghanistan and Soldiers from the 554th Military Police Squadron visiting with town elders in Jalalabad, Afghanistan to discuss the well-being of the town. Hosted by Spc. Jennifer Dolsen.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 14
This edition features stories on members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building a new water treatment system on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan and Soldiers organizing and supervising a cash-for-work project in which Afghan villagers get paid to work on a project that directly benefits their community. Hosted by Air Force Staff Sgt. Joy Meek. Afghanistan.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 15
This edition features stories on the Kunar provincial governor and the commander of Task Force Warrior visiting three provinces in western part of Kunar province, Afghanistan in an effort to connect the provincial government with district governments and a reconnaissance mission in the Khost province of Afghanistan in which U.S. Soldiers will work alongside Afghan security forces ensuring they will be able to conduct future missions without coalition assistance. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Herna...
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 18
This edition features stories on Service members and civils at Bagram Airfield take time out to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his holiday. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Joy Meek.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 19
This edition features stories about a radio station that provides entertainment and information for its listeners, and U.S. military engineers surveying a site for a new operations and coordination center for the Afghan National Police and Army. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose. Afghanistan
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 20
This edition features stories on Afghan and Coalition forces finding over 600 Kilograms of Amomium Nitrate when searching a building, and the pro-active approach that technicians are taking at Bagram Airfield on the H1N1 virus. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Joy Meek.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 21
This edition features stories on coalition forces searching a compound and capturing a Taliban insurgent and a Soldier training Afghanistan border patrol police. Hosted by Senior Airman Joshua Adkins. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Joy Meek.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 22
This edition features stories on Afghan and U.S. forces delivering humanitarian aid to three villages in Paktya Province and a military working dog specially trained for tracking explosive ordinance and insurgents in Afghanistan. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 25
This edition features a stories on Craig Joint Theater hospital staff handing out donations to Afghan families and service member teaching a weapons maintenance class to Afghanistan police. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Joy Meek
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 26
This edition features a stories on service members responsible for keeping helicopters armed and fueled for missions and Soldiers on a patrol in Afghanistan to gather information on insurgents. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 27
This edition features a story on International Security Assistance Forces killing several armed insurgents in the Pech District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan and a hands-on veterinary clinic for future veterinarians being conducted at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam in Laghman province, Afghanistan. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Hernandez.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 28
This edition features stories on the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team visiting construction sites to assess the progress of a district center and school and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle. Hosted by Air Force Staff Sgt. Ali Rose. Afghanistan.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Jan. 29
This edition features a stories on Soldiers helping Afghan villagers with their livestock and service members who provide maintenance and repairs on helicopters in Afghanistan. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Hernandez.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 2
This edition features a stories on the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team visiting the Kunar prison construction site and Soldiers training on mine detection devices in Afghanistan. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 3
This edition features stories on international security forces explaining to a local farmer the new ban on a certain type of agricultural fertilizer then trading a better, and legal, fertilizer to the farmer for his stock of banned material and the Mehtar Lam Agribusiness Development Team helping rebuild the agricultural economy of Afghanistan through the training of farmers and farming program implementation. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Hernandez.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 4
This edition features stories on a conference held by the Independent Afghan Bar Association and the Panjshir province Ministry of Justice conducting rule-of-law training for local lawmakers and law enforcement personnel and coalition Soldiers training the Afghan Border Police to take over patrolling the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Hosted by Air Force Staff Sgt. Ali Rose.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 5
This edition features stories on 568 Afghan National Police lieutenants graduating from a three-year professional training program at the Kabul Police Academy and two brothers, serving in two different branches, both serving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Hosted by Spc. Jennifer Dolsen.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 8
This edition features stories about Afghan National Security Forces killing a Taliban leader and several insurgents in an operation near the border of Pakistan, and a team of military animal experts teaching Afghan veterinary students how to do their part in restoring Afghanistan's agriculture economy. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Hernandez. Afghanistan
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 9
This edition features a story about two Afghan Veterinary students teaching a farming improvement class to local farmers in Laghman Province, Afghanistan, and Soldiers that perform Route Clearance Packages (RCP) to keep convoys safe. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 10
This edition features stories on heavy snow storms causing several avalanches in Afghanistan and coalition forces and Afghanistan security forces assisting Afghans injured in an avalanche in Parwan Province. Hosted by Senior Airman Jay Hernandez
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 11
This edition features stories about U.S. Marines preparing for a major assault on a key Taliban stronghold in Southern Afghanistan, and an Afghan Women's business bazaar. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 12
This edition features stories on Afghanistan and coalition forces killing a Taliban leader responsible for producing improvised explosive devices for insurgents and Soldiers training in a vehicle rollover simulator in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Michael Jackson
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 16
This edition features stories on the Italian Reconstruction Team in Herat province, Afghanistan donating 200 tons of cereal seeds to the Herat Department of Agriculture in an effort to improve the local economy and living conditions of the Afghan citizens and service members at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan participating in the Aloha Run, a charity event that began in Hawaii in 1984. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Jackson.
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 17
This edition features stories on Afghan and coalition forces killing a militant and detaining two others while pursing a Taliban commander in th Kunduz Province. Soldiers delivering humanitarian aid to villages in Afghanistan. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 18
This edition features stories on the progress of Operation Moshtarak being undertaken by the joint efforts of Afghan National Security Forces and U.S. Marines and troops preparing for the incoming surge of troops by increasing housing, supplies and facilities at at Forward Operating Base Ramrod, Afghanistan. Hosted by Air Force Staff Sgt. Joy Meek. RCS2010
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 19
This edition features stories on an Afghan company teaching a series of classes at Camp Clark about freedom of press and Soldiers training the Afghanistan national police on how to respond to an emergency medical evacuation. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Joy Meek
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 22
This edition features stories on Afghan and coalition forces capturing a Taliban commander in northern Helmand Province and Agri-Business Development Teams using demonstration farm to show Afghanistan farmers new techniques and introduce them to new crops. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Ali Rose
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
Freedom Watch Update - Feb. 23
This edition features stories on Soldiers providing security on roads in Afghanistan to ensure delivery of supplies for Operation Moshtarak and the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team and Afghanistan contractors giving compensation pay to local Afghans for damages caused during a local road construction project. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Michael Jackson. RCS2010
Apr 23, 2023•2 min
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