Brass Monkey Clearance Operation

Operation Brass Monkey a clearance mission from Sept 15-20, 2011 of the remote Saygal Valley in Laghman Province, Eastern Afghanistan. Coalition forces killed 10 insurgents, found two weapons caches and detained three suspected insurgents during the operation. They also conducted shuras with village elders and collected biometric information of military aged males. Featured are Oklahoma National Guard soldiers from the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team out of Stillwater, Okla. working with Afghan National Army soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 201st Corp. The mission was significant as it was the first time in years a coalition force of this size had ventured deep into the Saygal Valley--considered a Taliban stronghold.

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• Monkey
• Clearance
• Operation
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• Army
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• Saygal
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• Laghman
• Province

[KiranStevens]

Wow. Insane, no foreigners had been there since the Soviets in the 1970s?! That's pretty cool.

[comedyguy911]

@jgunn998 Watch Restrepo

[SFCmartinbyrne]

@jgunn998 Camera Guy try 2 Combat Camera Soldiers Female and they did Great

[jgunn998]

cool. real documentary. not scripted. what camera guy takes that job, or are they soldiers

[KiranStevens]

@Konreu Yeah rucks up mountains can get pretty tiresome . . .

[Konreu]

00:36

Love the use of the m4 cane there >.>

[AsenYonchevYonchev]

@KiranStevens kind'a scary too...

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

The Afghan secret: [censored]