Inside A Special Forces Team In Afghanistan

SANGIN, Afghanistan - COL Abudul Majeed, 1st Kandak, 209th Afghan National Army Corps commander,(left) combat advised by a US Army Special Forces company commander, assigned to the Combined Joint Special Forces Task Force- Afghanistan, assesses a location for a new governors headquarters in Sangin District of Helmand Province on 9 April 2007. Coalition and ANA forces have killed over 60 Taliban fighters while reclaiming the Sangin District area over the past several days in southern Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Keith Henning)

Secret Bases, ATVs, Awesome Beards: Inside A Special Forces Team In Afghanistan -- Danger Room

The secret base-within-the-base was the first sign that I was about to see something special.

It was early February at a snow-encrusted NATO compound on the outskirts of Kabul. I’d come at the invitation of a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to Special Forces Task Force 10. After reading one of my recent dispatches from the front lines of the more than decade-old Afghanistan War, the sergeant had extended me a rare invitation to visit and report on one of Task Force 10′s “A Teams” working to train up Afghan security forces out in the provinces.

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My Comment: Nothing new here, but it is a nice summary of what happens in a special forces unit.