DVIDS story published 28 October 2013.
General surveys retrograde operations at Afghan rail port
1st Sustainment Command (Theater) Public Affairs
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Lawn
JCOP HAIRATAN, Afghanistan – Maj. Timothy Christensen, Manchester, Conn., native, and Afghan rail advisory team director, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, and Brig. Gen. Duane Gamble, 1st TSC, deputy commanding general, native of Arbutus, Md., survey Afghan Northern Distribution Network Rail Port 2, managed by Afghanistan Ministry of Customs and Industry, for future retrograde operations during a Regional Command North battlefield circulation, Oct. 14, 2013.
The port survey, security, and support element was comprised of joint, active duty, Army National Guard and Army Reserve combat enabling and support soldiers.
The active duty soldiers were assigned to 2nd Platoon, Cherokee Troop, 6th Squadron, 4th Calvary Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, from Fort Knox, Ky., the 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Knox, Ky., and the 524th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
The Army National Guard soldiers were from the 1230th Transportation Company, Georgia Army National Guard, from Thomasville, Ga., and a combined leadership, survey team of active duty Army and Army Reserve combat sustainer soldiers from the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, from Fort Bragg, N.C. The joint team came together to survey the rail port and provide subject matter expert guidance on future retrograde operations.
Source: DVIDS, 28 October 2013
Photos include:
Soldiers of Cherokee Troop, 6th Squadron, 4th Calvary Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, from Fort Knox, Ky., and the 524th Combat Service and Support Battalion provide security for Sgt. Maj. James M. Lambert, left, senior enlisted adviser (Afghanistan) 1st Theater Sustainment Command, Maj. Timothy Christensen, Afghan rail advisory team director, center, a native of Manchester, Conn., 1st TSC, Brig. Gen. Duane Gamble, right, deputy commanding general, 1st TSC, Maj. Lashell Davis, tactical officer in charge, 101st Sustainment Brigade, from Fort Campbell Ky., and other 1st TSC staff, as Gamble and Christensen discuss the layout of the rail port and assess its use for retrograde operations, Oct. 14, 2013. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Lawn, 1st Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs/Released)
This is the only one with much railway in view:
Cherokee Troop, 6th Squadron, 4th Calvary Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division soldier, from Fort Knox, Ky., stands behind his assigned mine resistant ambush protected vehicle and cautiously observes an Afghan civilian who is walking toward him, Oct. 14, 2013. The soldier is part of an assigned personal security detachment escorting Brig. Gen. Duane Gamble, deputy commanding general, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, on a battlefield circulation of Afghan Northern Distribution Network, Rail Port 2. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Lawn, 1st Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs/Released)