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Mountain Division assumes command in Afghanistan
By U.S. Army Master Sgt. Kap KimRC-East Public Affairs
Office
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Feb. 6, 2014)The 10th Mountain
Division (Light
Infantry), from Fort Drum, N.Y., assumed command of Regional
CommandEast from the101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), from
Fort Campbell, Ky., during a Transfer-of-Authority ceremony Feb. 6,
at Bagram Airfield.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James C. McConville, Combined Joint Task
Force-101scommanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Alonzo Smith,
cased the 101st colors andArmy Maj. Gen. Stephen Townsend, CJTF-10s
commanding general and Command Sgt.Maj. Rodney Ray Lewis, uncased
thecolors, symboling the relinquishing of commandresponsibility of
RC-East.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, presided over the
ceremony.This transition of authority today represents, once again,
the commitment of the
United States to the success of the Afghan government, to the
success of the AfghanNational Security Forces, and to the success
and better life of the Afghan peoplewe aretruly dedicated to
that.
CJTF-101s McConville spoke to his Afghan teammates and thanked
them for theirsupport through the year.
You know its truly been one team for the past 12 months,
McConville said of hisAfghan general counterparts. Its been an
honor and priveledge for Regional CommandEast to have served
side-by-side with each one of you.
For Townsend and CJTF-10, their mission this year will be nearly
the same as thetheir predecessors as he told the attendees that
later this year, the 10th Mtn. Div. would bepostured to assist the
Afghan Security Forces and the government into the future
through
the NATO Security Assistance Mission: Resolute Support.Our
Afghan brothers can count on the 10th Mountain Division to help
them, as theybecome more confident and self reliant, protecting the
people and securing their country,Townsend said. We will help the
Afghan Security Forces in targeting insurgents andterrorists so
they cant launch attacks against Afghanistan or from
Afghanistan.
A little more than 12 years ago, the 10th Mtn. Div. (LI), sent
Soldiers from theirSpecial Troops Battalion and 1st Battalion, 87th
Infantry Regiment, to Uzbekistan andAfghanistan in direct support
of Operation Enduring Freedom. Soon after, in December2001, Maj.
Gen. Franklin Hagenbeck, the commander of 10th Mtn. Div., took the
divisionheadquarters to Karshi-Khanabad Airbase in Uzbekistan and
later to Bagram Airfield, tocommand CJTF-Mountain.
Both divisions are no strangers to the war on terrorism that
sent its Soldiers to bothAfghanistan and Iraq.
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Twelve years ago, in March, the 10th Mountain and 101st fought,
side-by-side,brothers in battle, in Operation Anaconda, said
Townsend. It is very fitting in 2013 and2014, as we reach the
conclusion of OEF, that the 101st and the 10th Mountain onceagain
stand in the plains of Afghanistan, side-by-side, but this time,
with another powerfulbrother in battle: the Afghan Security
Forces.
The 101st Airborne Division operated in eastern Afghanistan
three times, and the10th Mtn. Div. now has been in the east four
times and once in the south. Yet, both
divisions, with either their division headquarters, or with
their brigades and battalions, haveserved throughout Afghanistan
and Iraq for every year of the total 13 years spent inSouthwest
Asia.
Bagram Airport, built in the 1950s and later used by the Soviet
Union in the 1980s,is the eastern headquarters to one of the five
regional command, an area roughly the sizeof Virginia, which
includes 14 provinces and 7.5 million Afghans and borders Pakistan
toits east. When the 101st AB Div. assumed command of RC-East last
March, there werealmost 60 bases. Today, the Afghan National
Security Forces have taken control of 40 ofthem with approximately
80,000 Afghan troops.
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BAGRAM, AfghanistanMaj. Gen. Stephen Townsend (left), next to
Gen. RaymondOdierno and Maj. Gen. James McConville at the end of
the Transfer of Authority
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Ceremony, Feb. 6, 2014, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (U.S.
Army photo by Sgt.Steven Peterson RC-East PAO) (Released)
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BAGRAM, AfghanistanMaj. Gen. Stephen Townsend (left), Gen.
Raymond Odierno,and Maj. Gen. James McConville render honors at the
end of the Transfer of Authority
Ceremony, Feb. 6, 2014, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (U.S.
Army photo by Pfc.Nikayla Shodeen, 55th Signal Company [Combat
Camera] RC-East PAO) (Released)
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BAGRAM, AfghanistanMaj. Gen. Stephen Townsend (left) and Command
Sgt. Maj.Rodney Lewis, uncase the 10thMountain Division (Light
Infantry) Colors during theTransfer of Authority Ceremony, Feb. 6,
2014, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (U.S. Armyphoto by Sgt.
Steven Peterson RC-East PAO) (Released)
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