Front line bloggers - Afghanistan

Frontline Bloggers has moved to a new location! The new look Helmand Blog has consumed this site. All the posts on here have been migrated and there are new posts going up regularly. Thank you...

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Captain Stuart Thomas is the Main Troop Commander of 204 Signal Squadron, based in Lashkar Gah for his six-month tour. Main Troop monitors all communications into Task Force Helmand Headquarte...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/afghan-diet-club-free-membership-for.html

Captain Jeremy Hahn, an Armoured Vehicle Commander with the Royal Dragoon Guards, is based in Kandahar. Sometimes the most innocuous of comments, in the most curious of environments, delivere...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/longing-for-good-bordeaux.html

Major Mark Suddaby, a Company Commander with 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS), writes about meeting the Afghan people. My forward operating base is home to not only the ...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/chocolate-and-pens-meeting-locals.html

Lance Corporal Ashley Jones REME blogs from Afghanistan for Channel 4 News about the stress in dealing with the unknown while his fellow soldiers are out on patrol. I was initially meant to b...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/worrying-wait.html

Lance Corporal Richard Savage QRL blogs for Channel 4 News from the frontline in Afghanistan, where on his first operation in Sangin he is put on sentry duty - "stag" - at squadron headquarter...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/frustrations-of-stag.html

The Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) is based out of Camp Bastion. We are a multi-disciplinary trauma team which is deployed forward to the point of wounding to commence resuscitation and s...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/corporal-matthew-olsson-medical.html

Private Daryn Liddle, a South African national serving in the British forces with 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS), explains how he’ll be exchanging Afghanistan for the R...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/cricket-woes-afghans-beat-us-at-our-own.html

Corporal Caroline Storm, from 34 Field Hospital (34 Fd Hosp), has returned to work in Bastion and explains her role on Operation HERRICK 12. Hello. Let me introduce myself formally as Corporal...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/round-two-in-afghanistan.html

Captain Jeremy Hahn, an Armoured Vehicle Commander with the Royal Dragoon Guards, is based in Kandahar for Operation HERRICK 12. County Durham, Oxfordshire, the Gulf Region, Helmand and finall...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/heat-and-dust-first-impressions-of.html

Lance Corporal James Atkin of 21 Engineer Regiment (21 ER) steps up to compile his Troop blog. First of all I would like to thank the good men of 3 Troop for volunteering me to write this blog...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/hard-sad-emotional-and-expensive-times.html

The QRF was tasked to undertake an exploitation patrol in urban Kabul, close to the airport. The terrain may be different from Helmand but the risks are just as great…. It’s hot at 2pm wi...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/sargeant-stewart-mccrone-quick-reaction.html

Lance Corporal John Zoumides on patrol in Sangin's "Green Zone" Lance Corporal John Zoumides, a medic with 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS) at a patrol base in Sangin, wr...

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In his final blog from the front line, Trooper Pete Sheppard writes for Channel 4 News on how the anticipation of returning home is shattered by the death of a fellow soldier just days before he ...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/frontline-blog-tears-and-tributes-to.html

I am TA soldier on my first operational tour, currently deployed on a three month detachment with 47 Air Dispatch (AD) based in Kandahar. We are a crew of six Air Despatchers with seven local e...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/47-air-dispatch-ad-lance-corporal-katie.html

I am a platoon commander for D company and am currently based with company headquarters in a compound in Loy Aderha. We have been there since the start of Operation Moshtarak. Our first two we...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/lieutenant-mark-lewis10-platoon.html

I am part of the D Company Non Kinetic Effects Team, 1 Royal Welsh. I am attached to D company and have been based with their HQ element since Operation Moshtarak started in the western Babaji ...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/non-kinetic-effects-team-colour.html

I have been the FAC for D company, 1 Royal Welsh since the start of their tour. My role is to advise the company commander on the assets available for Close Air Support (CAS). I also direct Int...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour-sergeant-damo-hudson-forward-air.html

I am asked from time to time to attend local events in villages around Camp Bastion to help out with security and find out what concerns the locals may have. We have got a large event on, with a ...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/corporal-dave-morrison-information-co.html

I am a multiple commander with 10 platoon, D company. My working pattern currently finds me located in the main company Patrol Base (PB) doing two days guard followed by two days patrolling. C...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/corporal-simon-smith-d-company-1-royal.html

It’s a bit like being Nick Knowles from DIY SOS. But instead of sorting out a delipidated bathroom in 24 hours we have to make an all singing, all dancing Patrol Base here in Showal, Nad-e-A...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/corporal-ad-adrian-dixon-28-section.html

Nightshift 2 – 3 Mar 10 Whist writing this blog there is pandemonium going on behind me, banging, raised voices, some in anger…… no, there isn’t a mass tauma situation going on, its Te...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/corporal-steph-hodgson-emergency-ward.html

It was 0400 and there were people everywhere preparing vehicles and checking routes. Whilst noisy and busy, each vehicle knew exactly where it fitted into the convoy to resupply A Company, 1 R...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/lance-corporal-jeevan-rai-queens-own.html

“It will be a success if it is a total anti-climax.” That was what we were told. In reality we planned for a big fight, platoon size, out of area fighters willing to stand their ground. Al...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/02/wo2-greg-reece-ra-military.html

Viking Armoured Personnel Carrier We are back in from the first phase of Op Moshtarak and it is great to be back in camp with hot showers and fresh food. The last few weeks have been a real ex...

http://frontlinebloggers.blogspot.com/2010/02/major-mike-taylor-d-squadron-1-rtr.html