Ceremony marks end of Task Force Helmand
2 Apr 2014 04:33 PM
After 8 years of front line operations, the
UK's military headquarters in Helmand was disbanded this
week.
In
the latest stage of the ongoing drawdown of UK operations in Afghanistan, the
functions of Headquarters Task Force Helmand have been subsumed into the wider
US-led Regional Command (South West).
This milestone marks the end of the 16th Task Force
Helmand operation for the British-led coalition task force, which has comprised
soldiers from the Danish, Estonian, Tongan, Jordanian and Bosnian armed
forces.
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