By: Shawn Snow and Meghann Meyers
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A pocket-sized grouping of Marine advisers operating out of Helmand province, Afghanistan, guide maintain taken downwards their Facebook trouble organisation human relationship citing operational safety concerns. Task Force Southwest is forthwith inwards its 3rd rotation to Afghanistan, having taken over the Helmand battlespace from rotation ii at the tail goal of October.
The Facebook trouble organisation human relationship associated amongst the Marine advisers has been active over its past times ii deployment cycles, since the Marines returned to Helmand inwards restrain 2017.
“With regards to our Facebook page, nosotros are currently re-evaluating how nosotros are disseminating information, peculiarly given operational safety concerns,” Capt. Peter Koerner, a Marine spokesman amongst Task Force Southwest, told Marine Corps Times. “We volition all the same come about to bring out releasable content on DVIDS together with through the Resolute Support social media accounts.”
Task Force Southwest’s social media accounts guide maintain been helpful inwards disseminating data together with updates nearly the progress together with mission of the Marines inwards Helmand every bit they come about to rebuild together with propose Afghan safety forces inwards the volatile province.
Marines amongst Task Force Southwest prepare an M121 120 mm mortar organisation during a safety patrol nigh Bost Airfield. (Sgt. Sean J. Berry/Marine Corps) The precipitous removal of the trouble organisation human relationship calls into enquiry transparency concerns regarding the Corps’ combat missions overseas. While Task Force Southwest’s Twitter trouble organisation human relationship is all the same active, the trouble organisation human relationship hasn’t posted anything since mid-September.
The Army’s Facebook trouble organisation human relationship for its conventional advisers, known every bit the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, or SFAB, is all the same active. Members of the 1st SFAB only returned domicile from a nigh yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.
But, on deck for the adjacent Army rotation to Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is the the 2d SFAB, which is slated to deploy to the portion sometime inwards restrain 2019. That unit of measurement doesn’t guide maintain a Facebook account.
The Security Force Assistance Command told Army Times that it is upwardly to private commanders to cause upwardly one's hear whether the unit of measurement creates a Facebook account.
But at that spot guide maintain been operational safety concerns stemming from unit of measurement Facebook pages inwards the past.
In June, a fellow member of the 1st SFAB reached out to Army Times together with asked that a pic of 1 of its interpreters, which was published inwards a even out nearly lessons learned from the unit’s outset deployment to Afghanistan, move censored or non exhibit his face.
The interpreter feared that photos of him working amongst American soldiers could jeopardize his menage unit of measurement inwards Kabul.
The pic inwards enquiry was pulled from the Facebook page of 1 of the battalions within the 1st SFAB.
Soldiers amongst the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade deport medical evacuation preparation amongst their Afghan counterparts. (Army) The Corps every bit good has non been real forthcoming nearly its advisers together with supporting efforts inwards places similar Republic of Iraq together with Syria, fifty-fifty at times scrubbing photos mentioning the Corps’ operations inwards Syrian Arab Republic that were uploaded to the DoDs world imagery website known every bit DVIDS.
A DVIDS post for a Purple Heart awarded to a Marine for injuries sustained inwards Syrian Arab Republic failed to advert the province where the combat injure originated.
“Unfortunately, the Marines create non answer questions spell their troops are all the same on mission — which is why the images you lot archived are no longer available,” Army Col. Thomas F. Veale, a spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, had told Marine Corps Times inwards an emailed contention afterwards DVIDS pulled downwards photos of a June catch to the OIR home past times the erstwhile commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command, Lt. Gen. William D. Beydler.
And inwards August, Task & Purpose published a blockbuster story nearly an unreported insider laid on against Marines that was carried out past times a the U.S. of A. Syrian partner strength fellow member at a remote outpost inwards Deir al Zour, Syria.
Task Force Southwest’s determination to scrub its Facebook trouble organisation human relationship comes every bit tidings trickling inwards from the war-torn portion paints a less than rosy assessment.
A recent Pentagon inspector full general report on the conflict said piddling has changed inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan since the implementation of President Donald Trump’s Southern Asia strategy.
Population command past times the Afghan authorities remains relatively unchanged at 65 percent, spell Afghan forces guide maintain been hitting amongst increasing casualty rates, the study said. And Terrorist groups similar ISIS-K are all the same able to launch deadly attacks inwards the country.
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