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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Jobs: Convoy Team Leader, Afghanistan

NCL

 Convoy Security Operations Afghanistan – Convoy Team Leader

Description:

Position: Convoy Team Leader

Location: Afghanistan

Duration: 1 year renewable

Starting date required: Ongoing

I. Organization description:

NCL Holdings is involved in multiple logistics and security projects throughout Southwest Asia and the CENTCOM AOR. Our management team and staff possess in-depth knowledge that is essential to operating in difficult parts of the world and are currently on the ground performing professional support services globally.

II. Profile and Responsibilities:

NCL is currently looking to fill the Convoy Security Team Leaders for the U.S. Army ARCENT Convoy Security Services contract. He will responsible for performing duties as convoy team leader throughout Afghanistan.

Convoy Team Leaders will work under the direction of the Convoy Escort Team Operations Manager, and report to, the Convoy Escort Operations Center (CEOC).

Responsibilities will include:

    * Perform day-to-day convoy security operations

    * Receive daily threat info and give feedback for best modifications of route or departure time

    * Create, brief, and execute SOP’s for Convoy Team

    * Ensure daily maintenance and inventory of all Convoy Teams operational gear

    * Report to CET Operations Manager any incidents that occur during the convoy operation, Incidents are defined as any SAF, IED, VBIED, or complex attacks

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Afghanistan: Mumbai-style Attack, Text Messaging for Communications

Filed under: Afghanistan,Technology — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 10:24 AM

   I wrote in an earlier article about the various uses of text messaging or SMS in warfare.  The imagination is the only limit, when it comes to this stuff, and the enemy is definitely taking advantage of all and any western technologies.  Rest in peace to the victims of this latest attack.

    The details of the attack are still coming through, but SCG has put together a great little report on the attack.  They make recommendations for travelers and businessmen as well. 

   Also, the company SCG provides free world update reports through their newsletter.  They also have some interesting training they provide.  As for jobs, they are also looking for iReporters, or that is what I call them.  If you are out there, and you have some unique insight as to your little area of the world, I am sure these guys would like to hear from you.  I don’t know how much they pay, but it is worth a shot if you are interested. –Matt

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Narative of the Recent attack in Afghanistan

On the morning of February 11, at least three teams of Taliban terrorists attacked separate Afghan Government targets around Kabul in coordinated attacks at about 1000 local time.  The attacks included suicide bombers.  Targets included the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Ministry of Education (MoE), and the General Department for Afghan Prisons (GDAP). Current reports indicate that at least 20 people were killed, and 57 injured in the attacks.

Afghan defense officials have indicated that the attackers communicated directly with their Pakistan-based leadership via text-message. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in response to the poor treatment of Taliban members in Afghan prisons.

 To Read More About this Attack, Sign Up For Free With SCG World Alerts Here

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Funny Stuff: iPhones and the Taliban

Filed under: Afghanistan,Funny Stuff — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 11:47 PM

    I guess I will have to go back and edit this story about the Taliban hating the mobile phone by destroying towers?  Obviously the iPhone changed their mind. lol.  This also reminded me of the Taliban using Skype story as well. Anyone seeing a trend? –Matt

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Mullah Zaif

 

Mullah Zaif, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, says he is ‘addicted’ to his iPhone

 

iPhones and the Taliban:

February 7, 2009

Somewhere outside Kabul

Mullah Zaif, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, says he is ‘addicted’ to his iPhone

I could not believe my eyes. We had arrived to interview Mullah Zaif, the Taliban’s former ambassador to Pakistan who is now under virtual house-arrest on the outskirts of Kabul, when he walked into the room, sat down on the couch and pulled out an iPhone.

A former member of the Taliban! An iPhone! How times have changed.

During Taliban rule, which ended when the US and its allies rolled in and took control of Kabul in 2001, the leadership had banned just about anything associated with modern technology.

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Monday, February 9, 2009

Afghanistan: Blast Kills Two Contractors

Filed under: Afghanistan — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 9:39 AM

   Sad deal, and the point to bring up in this story, is booby trapping IED’s with remote detonation of that IED.  In Iraq and elsewhere, it is very common to have an attack, followed up with an attack.  The point is to draw in the QRF or emergency folks, or draw in folks who think the bomb is defused, and then initiate the secondary bomb.  It is very difficult to defend against, and a common tactic of the bomber.  Rest in peace, and my heart goes out to the families of the deceased and injured.  –Matt 

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Afghan blast kills two US nationals

February 8, 2009

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — A bomb killed four people, including two US nationals, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand Sunday, a police commander said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

The explosion was in the dangerous Nad Ali district, one of Afghanistan’s main opium-growing areas, where Taliban insurgents are said to earn money by protecting the lucrative crop from US-backed efforts to eliminate it.

The US and NATO-led military forces confirmed the blast but not the casualties.

The group had been checking an improvised explosive device that they believed had been defused, Helmand deputy police chief Kamalodin Khan told AFP.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

History: The Logistics Nightmare of the Soviets in Afghanistan

Filed under: Afghanistan,History — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 2:06 PM

Soviets Helicopter in Afghanistan

“The war was a contest by both sides to control the other’s logistics. The Soviet lines of communication (LOC) were a double lane highway network which wound through the Hindu Kush Mountains – some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth. The Soviet presence depended on its ability to keep the roads open. Much of the Soviet combat in Afghanistan was a fight for control of the road network. The resistance destroyed over 11,000 Soviet trucks. The DRA truck losses were reportedly higher. The Mujahideen ability to interdict the LOC was a constant concern to the Soviet and prevented them from maintaining a larger occupation force in Afghanistan.”

 

PDF File Here for Report on Soviet Lessons in Afghanistan

 

 

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