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I have arrived in a forward operating base in Gereshk, still in Helmand, where I am staying with 3 Company, Grenadier Guards. I have been told that the base is frequently mortared but the soldiers seem jovial. Read more at www.fromthefrontline .co.uk
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Danish forces responds to an intrusion by Taliban into their Area of Operations and sets out to find them. "Green Zone" Upper Gereshk Vally, Helmand Province.
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Made during an embed with the Parachute Regiment in Gereshk, Helmand Province, in the autumn of 2006, five years after I first went to Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. The men I and Kalpesh Lathigra, the photographer, were with had just returned from the battleground of Sangin. The story I wrote for the Guardian can be read here http://www.guardian. co.uk/afghanistan/st ory/0,,1920664,00.ht ml