SGT Gonzalez Gaberio
Instructor Name: SSG Gossett
11C Advanced Leaders Course
19 July 2016
Operation Anaconda
Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002. Not to be confused with the Anaconda Plan. CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with their allies, attempted to destroy al-Qaida and Taliban forces. The operation took place in the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat. This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001. This was the first operation in the Afghanistan Theater to involve a large number of U.S. conventional forces participating in direct combat activities.
Between March 2 and March 16, 2002 roughly 2,000 U.S. troops were …show more content…
At the end of Operation Anaconda, the US and Afghan forces had succeeded at removing the majority of the Al-Qaida and Taliban presence from the Shahi-Kot Valley. On 17 March 2002, Operation Anaconda was concluded. A total of 8 American servicemen had been killed and 82 wounded in action. US troops had suffered at least eight dead and 40 wounded during the first four days of action in Operation Anaconda in early March. The deaths brought the total number of American troops killed in combat in Afghanistan to least ten, including one Special Forces soldier killed by a sniper and one CIA officer killed in a prison uprising in earlier actions. Friendly fire deaths were three killed in one incident by a bomb dropped from a US warplane. A total of 26 had been killed in accidents, including 21 killed in airplane or helicopter crashes, two in heavy equipment accidents, one in a shipboard accident, one who fell overboard from a ship, and one from an accidental …show more content…
96% of Americans at the start of the war voted that it was a mistake to put boots on the ground in 2001, while 89% of Americans voted that is was not a mistake. Toward the end those numbers have subsequently changed to 42% against and 54% for, the other 4% remains undecided. A greater drop from those that opposed it in the first place rather than those that didn’t. From the beginning of this war in 2001 the American people have been divided as a whole, regardless of who you are or where you’re from, your culture or religious background, all Americans have felt the heart ache and
Instructor Name: SSG Gossett
11C Advanced Leaders Course
19 July 2016
Operation Anaconda
Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002. Not to be confused with the Anaconda Plan. CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with their allies, attempted to destroy al-Qaida and Taliban forces. The operation took place in the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat. This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001. This was the first operation in the Afghanistan Theater to involve a large number of U.S. conventional forces participating in direct combat activities.
Between March 2 and March 16, 2002 roughly 2,000 U.S. troops were …show more content…
At the end of Operation Anaconda, the US and Afghan forces had succeeded at removing the majority of the Al-Qaida and Taliban presence from the Shahi-Kot Valley. On 17 March 2002, Operation Anaconda was concluded. A total of 8 American servicemen had been killed and 82 wounded in action. US troops had suffered at least eight dead and 40 wounded during the first four days of action in Operation Anaconda in early March. The deaths brought the total number of American troops killed in combat in Afghanistan to least ten, including one Special Forces soldier killed by a sniper and one CIA officer killed in a prison uprising in earlier actions. Friendly fire deaths were three killed in one incident by a bomb dropped from a US warplane. A total of 26 had been killed in accidents, including 21 killed in airplane or helicopter crashes, two in heavy equipment accidents, one in a shipboard accident, one who fell overboard from a ship, and one from an accidental …show more content…
96% of Americans at the start of the war voted that it was a mistake to put boots on the ground in 2001, while 89% of Americans voted that is was not a mistake. Toward the end those numbers have subsequently changed to 42% against and 54% for, the other 4% remains undecided. A greater drop from those that opposed it in the first place rather than those that didn’t. From the beginning of this war in 2001 the American people have been divided as a whole, regardless of who you are or where you’re from, your culture or religious background, all Americans have felt the heart ache and