Showing posts with label ISAF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISAF. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2014

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Thirteen Years Later, ISAF Remembers The Fallen

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Thirteen Years Later, ISAF Remembers The Fallen

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 12, 2014: KABUL, Afghanistan - “Thirteen years ago, on a clear summer morning, al-Qaeda struck the American homeland, and our world irrevocably changed,” said Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces - Afghanistan.
 
Campbell delivered remarks during a ceremony at ISAF headquarters to honor those lost on September 11, 2001 and the sacrifices of countless others since that fateful day. 

“Two airplanes sliced through the New York City skyline and smashed into the World Trade Center complex.  Less than one hour later, an additional plane crashed into the Pentagon.  Minutes later, another -- also headed for the American capital -- plummeted to the earth in Pennsylvania.  When it was over, 2,977 men, women, and children representing over 90 countries, diverse cultures, and myriad religions lay dead, innocent victims of one of history's most brazen and reprehensible terrorist strikes.”

*Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by K. V. Seth from reliable sources Story and photo by Lt. Michael J. Fallon - ISAF Headquarters
*Photograph: IPF (International Pool of Friends) + DTN News / otherwise source stated
*Presented & compiled for DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

DTN News - FRENCH DEFENSE NEWS: French Army Nexter Aravis - MRAP

DTN News - FRENCH DEFENSE NEWS: French Army Nexter Aravis - MRAP

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 10, 2013:  The French Procurement Agency DGA (Direction générale de l’armement) has announced having taken delivery on last 19 January 2010 of the first four Nexter Aravis mine resistant ambush protected vehicles earmarked for the French Army. 

A total of fifteen such vehicles, dubbed VBHP — for Véhicule blindé hautement protégé –, was ordered in April 2009 for a sum of about €20 million. This specific procurement, made under a French Army crash programme (UOR), is aimed at providing the Armée de Terre’s Engineer Detachment on duty with ISAF in Afghanistan with a highly protected road reconnaissance vehicle likely to defeat and resist any standard IED explosion.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet In Kabul Backing U.S. To Open Talks With Taliban

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet In Kabul Backing U.S. To Open Talks With Taliban

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 1,  2012: French soldiers part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) leave a hall after listening to a speech by French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. France's defense minister on Sunday backed U.S. efforts to open peace talks with the Taliban, even as NATO reported the death of another service member that brought last year's toll to 544 troops killed in Afghanistan. (Photo - AP)