 For years, this area around the Kajaki hydroelectric dam in Helmand Province has been a stronghold of Taliban-led insurgents. Citizens have been forced from their homes by fighting. The potential of the dam to power some of the most crucial areas of Helmand had lain dormant in disrepair. In October, during Operation Eastern Storm, 1st Battalion 6 Marines and Afghan National Army soldiers swept north up Route 611 from Sangin, pushing all the way to the Kajaki District Center in the dam. What this dam signifies today, it signifies the fact that the Afghan government is taking full control of the dam and its facilities and will work to provide better services for the people of Afghanistan. Reporting from Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, I'm Staff Sergeant Jeremy Ross.