Aircrews drop supplies over a village stability platform in Shah Joy, Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2011. The supplies sustain forward operating bases, combat outposts and service members living at those locations. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras
Role Of Special Operations Marines In Afghanistan Is Largely Hidden But Growing In Importance -- Washington Post/AP
PUZEH, Afghanistan — In this dusty village in southern Afghanistan a small team of elite U.S. Marines is nudging Afghans toward rejection of the Taliban insurgency, a mission that is emerging as central to the U.S. and NATO exit strategy but is little known beyond the rugged brown hills of the upper Helmand River Valley.
Sixty-three U.S. troops, led by a team of bearded special operations Marines, operate from a small compound in the center of remote Puzeh, where they mingle with villagers and confer with local power brokers in an effort to create the beginnings of a homegrown militia that could eventually stand up to the Taliban.
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