Image Gallery 2009
09 October 2009
Operation Baz Panje - Falcon's Talon
One of the largest air mobile operations recently conducted in Uruzgan Province has been hailed a huge success. Involving the second rotation of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force, members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and other coalition forces, the air insertion was part of an overall operation to improve security in the province. The combined forces landed to the east of Tarin Kowt. Called Operation Baz Panje, meaning Falcon’s Talon, it's a critical step in spreading the coalition’s influence into the area and will involve building a new patrol base.
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A joint patrol of Australians, Afghan National Army soldiers (ANA) and Dutch, take a short break in Sorkh Lez.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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Warrant Officer Class 2 Dion Hawkett, gives a cheeky smile as he conducts a river crossing in Sorkh Lez.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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Soldiers speak with locals in the Mirabad Valley.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force Two (MRTF-2) soldiers wait for a resup in Sorkh Lez.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force 2, Major Damien Geary, shakes hands with Sorkh Lez locals after attending a shura in the Mirabad Valley.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force Two (MRTF-2) engineer, Captain Rodney Davis, with locals in Sorkh Lez in the Mirabad Valley, Southern Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 30 September 2009)
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