The Return to Zamto Kalay

For 12 days, 3rd Platoon conducted continuous operations in Mianeshin District, maintaining a presence in and around Zamto Kalay, Chenartu, and Spin Kechah as well as participating in a company air assault into the Spin Kechah area in order to capture a number of Taliban medium-level leaders.

On the way up to Zamto Kalay, 3rd Platoon ran into a convoy of engineers building a new base. Encountering enemy in the hills, Afghan National Army and US ETT controlers prepare to engage them with mortar fire.		SSG Workman and his mortar crew, PFC Baldwin and PFC McClellan, prepare to engage enemy in the mountains to the east.
3rd Platoon on the dawn air-assault north of Spin Kechah.		LT Wainwright questions an Afghan suspect during the operation.
SPC Noorani pulls guard near an Afghan building..		2nd Squad's Mk19 overwatches Zamto Valley.
3rd Platoon moves by vehicle back into the Chenartu/Spin Kechah region		SGT Gonzalez, SPC McCool, and PFC Hoyt relax as we return to Tiger II to refit and refuel.
A view of the punishing terrain on the route to Chenartu.		SPC (now SGT) Tobias with the LRAS at Tiger II.
SGT Samaroo and the Buffalo, one of the mine-clearing devices that came in handy a few times on the road to Zamto Kalay.		The PL, a little dirty from the ride back.