[–] mastranios ago
101st handed over Blessing to the ANA in 2010-2011, we took it back in mid 2011-2012 and named in Nangalam. Place was a literal shit hole. I already had little faith in the ANA before that but seeing how they lived without any American supervision destroyed what little faith I did have.
[–] chosen_few [S] ago
I was there 07-08. Where you saying you renamed Blessing, Nangalam? That village next to it was called Nangalam. lol Yea the ANA would turn whole buildings into very literal shit holes. I spent most of my time down the Wygal (Waygal?) valley and some in the Korengal, Wanat was about halfway to where Bella used to be and then a lot further down was Ranchhouse over looking Aranus. Obama wanted to move away from smaller outposts so all that shit started getting shut down. I'm a little bitter about it, we lost 16 guys in just that valley only to have 1st ID completely pull out of it.
[–] mastranios 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yea we did out air assaults in the Korengal and Pech and most of the time we would do dismounts or foot patrols in Wanat.
But yea, they renamed Blessing Nangalam. Thank the 25th for that. We lost quite a few people, about 20 not including our own terps (we used the Afghan ones as well). From what I understand they have completely pulled out of Pech, Korengal and the area where Honaker and Penich was. Makes me sad knowing it was for near nothing.