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COVER STORY Afghan security forces patrol a village in Panjwai district, once known as part of the “Birthplace of the Taliban.” Despite its bloody history, Panjwai and surrounding districts have become something of a bright spot, with residents increasingly supporting the central government. PHOTOS
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No end in sight Below left: An Afghan National Army soldier drives an American-made Humvee during an operation in Kandahar province on Jan. 5. Afghan security forces use a wide range of surplus and sometimes new equipment provided by international donors. Right: An Afghan Air Force crew chief scans for threats from the door of an Mi-17 helicopter over Kandahar province, Afghanistan. With the departure of most foreign troops, such aircraft provide vital support for security forces scattered around the country.
Afghan forces face a continuing fight on front lines
BY JOSH SMITH Stars and Stripes
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Western leaders have declared an end to their war in Afghanistan, but for hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces and their remaining foreign advisers, the fighting is far from over.
While embedded with the Afghan soldiers and air crews continuing that fight across what was once the Taliban heartland, Stars and Stripes gained an exclusive look at what the war looks like after the withdrawal of most interna-
tional forces. From emergency rooms to dusty village patrols, the faces of Afghan soldiers and civilians reveal the human side of the war that NATO and its allies have turned over to the Afghans to fight.
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Afghan National Army Lt. Col. Mohammed Sadiq, left, examines medical charts for Faridullah, 21, a soldier who lost his left leg to an improvised bomb in southern Afghanistan.
A girl watches Afghan security forces pass through her village during a patrol in southern Afghanistan.
Afghan National Army soldiers unload food and other suuplies from a truck onto a waiting Mi-17 helicopter at a desert base in southern Afghanistan. The overstretched Afghan Air Force has only a handful of aircraft to not only supply remote outposts, but evacuate wounded and transport troops. FROM PAGE 2
On Jan. 1, the NATO-led coalition transitioned to a mission focused more on advising and training than combat operations. Across the country, bases once teeming with American and allied troops now house Afghan soldiers. Villages once regularly fought over by
international forces now rarely see a foreign face. In Kandahar, one of the deadliest provinces for American troops, Afghan officials say they have seen progress since the “surge” of U.S. forces in 2010. Areas that once provided fertile recruiting ground for the Taliban
have become more supportive of the government, residents say. But even in relative bright spots, Afghans continue to pay a price. By some estimates, security forces across Afghanistan suffered nearly as many casualties as they inflicted last year, and the United Nations estimated that at least 10,000 Afghan civilians were
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Afghan National Army soldiers join local police to patrol a village in Panjwai district in southern Afghanistan on Jan. 5. Once known as a hotbed of insurgent activity, residents and security officials alike say the district has become more supportive of the national government. killed or wounded in 2014. Analysts expect Afghanistan to need hundreds of thousands of security forces for years to come to fight the lingering insurgency. After decades of violence, there is no end in sight. smith.josh@stripes.com Twitter: @joshjonsmith
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Jerry Landrum poses with the Omori flag at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond. Courtesy of the Virginia War Museum
POW flag from World War II testament to men’s bravery BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE Stars and Stripes
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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa hile Petty Officer 1st Class Denny Landrum died in 1980, the Navy electrician’s mate lives on through vibrant strokes of colored pigment. Between beatings, mock executions and torture at the Omori Prison Camp during World War II, Landrum and fellow POWs Raymond Jakubielski, Lorenzo Miriszio and Norman Albertsen painstakingly sewed bed sheets together and pilfered colored pencils from their Japanese guards. They created an American flag even though they faced execution if caught and had been threatened with courtmartial by their superiors, who feared all the prisoners might be punished for the act of defiance. The 6-by-4-foot flag was used to signal allied planes that were appearing overhead. They eventually greeted their liberators on Aug. 29, 1945,
waving the flag from atop a stolen firefighting tool. The Japanese prison camp and its now infamous resident tormentor, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, nicknamed “The Bird,” have been immortalized in Angelina Jolie’s Oscar-nominated film “Unbroken,” about another Omori prisoner, Louis Zamperini. The popularity of the film, based on Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 book, has drawn renewed interest in the flag, which disappeared after the war. It was found almost two years ago and is on loan to the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, where it will appear until spring.
‘It’s not about Dad’ Landrum’s son, Jerry Landrum, said the flag, like the movie, is bigger than one man or a handful of men armed with colored pencils; it is about the hundreds who refused to back down despite horrendous conditions and insurmountable odds. “It’s not about Dad,” Jerry Landrum told Stars and Stripes by phone.
“It’s for all of them. They couldn’t have survived it if they didn’t help each other… [The flag] meant so much to them. They were patriotic and they were going to put it out there and risk everything.” For Jerry Landrum, the war memorial has become a place of solemn reflection, where he often goes to look at the flag, remember his father and trade stories with the families of his father’s shipmates. He and his father had been looking for the flag since the 1960s. Landrum took over the mission when his father died in 1980 of complications from beriberi, a disease linked to his poor nutrition in prison. He was 56.
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Finding the flag Landrum called Naval History and Heritage Command curator Allison Russell as part of his search. In April 2013, she located the flag in off-site storage where it had been perfectly preserved for decades. SEE PAGE 6
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“We had no idea what happened to it,” Landrum said. “It was emotional” when it was found. Sen. Mark Warner intervened on behalf of the family to bring it to the Landrums’ hometown, where it has become quite a draw. “The story just kind of grabs people,” said memorial spokesman Jeb Hockman. “They get up close and they see the pencil lines. You can see how hard these guys worked on this flag. It really touches people.” As a youth, Denny Landrum was tall, thin and athletic, with a pointed chin and wide, toothy smile. He was stubborn and had a sharp sense of humor. During World War II he was stationed aboard the submarine USS Grenadier, where he was nicknamed “Slim.” The crew of 76 became a family while patrolling off Japan’s coast and in the central Pacific. They sunk Japanese transports and other enemy vessels and manned the picket line in the Battle of Midway, according to Navy records. According to the records and a diary Landrum kept in captivity, the Grenadier left Australia on March 20, 1943. Enemy aircraft bombed it April 22 off the coast of Thailand. After a day of fighting fires and trying to save the ship, they surfaced, scuttled the sub and got in the water. One crew member read stories from Reader’s Digest aloud while they awaited capture, Jerry Landrum said. They were first taken to Penang on the Malay Peninsula, then to Singapore and later to Japan, where they spent time in several prison camps before ending up at Omori. Navy records state they were tortured for intelligence information. Landrum has pieced together the brutality his father suffered at the hands of the camp guards and “The Bird” — who was named to Douglas MacArthur’s list of the
40 most-wanted Japanese war criminals — through notes left by his father and from talking to his shipmates and their families.
Father’s suffering There was a botched unnecessary surgery by a drunken Japanese camp doctor who operated on Landrum before the anesthesia kicked in. The Bird saw Landrum beaten with a wooden club until he was unrecognizable after he found his diary, which lacked his stamp of approval. He later returned it — complete with the stamp that can still be seen today — because he was so impressed by Landrum’s ability to take the punishment. Landrum was cut from his throat to his groin with a bayonet, knocked out with rifle butts, had his jaw and joints broken, was trudged before a firing squad several times and was starved with other prisoners. Yet Landrum never folded or lost his sense of humor. When English-speaking Japanese officers arrived at the camp, one guard asked him how to greet them in English. “Good morning you son-of-abitch,” Landrum told him. Jerry Landrum said it was the only beating that his father said he didn’t mind taking. When they were liberated, Landrum’s jubilation was captured in an iconic photograph of him waving the Omori flag, clad in rags, suffering from malnutrition. After the war, Denny Landrum was frustrated with his body’s limitations from the years of abuse, but he tried not to show it. He couldn’t provide for his family the way he wanted, yet he remained defiant about life’s challenges, just like he did with the prison guards. “He said he never got knocked out with their hands and feet,” Jerry Landrum said. “He wasn’t impressed” by their fighting ability.
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A Hammer is a Gateway Drug By Major Mike Dryden USAR Retired
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eware. If you buy that hammer, soon you will graduate to power tools. You will have to have a table saw. You will think, “I can stop anytime.” But you can’t. All those cheap drill presses, sanders, planers and band saws at Lowes and Home Depot become a monthly habit. Soon you will have credit cards from all the big box home improvement stores. You get up and turn on the Create or DIY channel and sit down in front of the TV. Bob Villa, Kevin at This Old House, and Dean on Hometime (Nicole Curtis is my favorite) are your new best buds and you absorb every word. You won’t bathe and you’ll eat cold leftovers because cereal takes too long to fix. You’ll think “Where are the commercials when you need them.” It’s because PBS tastefully runs them between episodes. I recommend Depends. No one has to know why you can’t get up and spend 45 seconds to go to the bath room.
These tactics bounce off of you like you are covered with Teflon. Your final word to the lot of them is “To Heck with you all. Bob Villa and Dean Johnson have shown how to build my own house and the furniture in it.”
A hammer looks benign but it is a dangerous weapon in the hands of the wrong person. A purchase of a $10.00 hammer could lead to a lifetime addiction to woodworking and radical home improvement show viewing that indoctrinates you with a sense of taste, style and a love for the smell of shellac. Some have been known to go over the cliff and buy a floor sander so they can change the stain on their floors at will. They will soon find you have this uncontrollable urge to smell saw dust and will call all their friends to offer them a deal on floor sanding. This way they experience of different floor stains is on somebody else’s dime. Nirvana sets in and you are hooked on woodworking and all its permutations. You will begin to shed non-DIY long time friends in favor of people whose hands are chapped, have stain under their finger nails, drive pickup trucks (the final stage of addiction is the purchase of a pick-
up) and always wear blue jeans with cotton shirts that have pockets filled with flat carpenter’s pencils and tiny rulers, have a small black holster on their belt that houses a multi-tool and a clip- on- your- belt tape measure.
These tactics bounce off of you like you are covered with Teflon. Your final word to the lot of them is “To Heck with you all. Bob Villa and Dean Johnson have shown how to build my own house and the furniture in it.”
You soon begin to equate dirty shirts, a dusty garage and BO as a sign of success on Saturday evenings.
Mommas, don’t let your kids grown up to be woodworking addicts. Never let them go into the garage with Dad who has this addiction. Woodworking is a disease that is passed down through the generations. For your husband, if seen looking at table saws at Home Depot, act first. Buy a Shopsmith Mark Vll.
You will walk into your house for the first time since the woodworking and DIY shows started to morph into quilting and scrape booking trash (one man’s treasure is another man’s trash), strip down to your underwear and hit the shower. You will march into the kitchen like a conquering hero who has conquered Wales (who would notice) expecting a ticket tape parade (Kids, ask the oldest person you know what ticket tape is) down Madison Avenue (okay I skipped a few centuries because time and space have no limits to a woodworking addict) and you get a cold sandwich, not put together, but in a pile on the counter.
It’s has all the accessories one ever needs to handle 200 level woodworking. 200 level woodwork is like second year college writing. He will produce items fit for the den in a dark corner or the patio. But he will never produce anything that goes in the living or dining room. Plus you will have the “move to the front of the line” position for all your little projects. If you get mad, be passive aggressive (men don’t notice). Find a project that requires all the Shopsmith accessories which of course requires the removal of one tool in Your marriage is a train wreck, your job is shaky and order to use another piece. Go to the Shopsmith web you haven’t even heard about 9/11 since the only outsite and watch the YouTube’s videos. It will be so side news you have gotten in your 15 year slide into much better than yelling. addiction Hell comes from Woodcraft sales catalogs. The point of this article is that a hammer is just the Denial is the biggest hurdle to take on your way to beginning of a long slide into the radical indoctrinarecovery. Your wife has kicked you out, your brothtion of home improvement. Know what you are geter has given you a talking to and the Big Gun, your ting into. Momma, has used the grand daddy of southern persuasion, the queen mother of all weapons of guilt Don’t buy that hammer. bombs when she says, “I didn’t raise you this way”. From your recovering remodeling addict friend Mike She will say it to you with sad eyes that have little Dryden tears beginning to roll down her cheeks.
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Hercules will be doing heavy lifting in Pacific in 2017 BY SETH ROBSON Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The newest version of the Air Force’s C-130 Hercules transport is coming to Japan, where its increased cargo capacity, power and range should help in disaster relief and other missions across the Pacific, according to officials at Yokota Air Base and aircraft maker Lockheed Martin. “We’re looking at transitioning from our H-model (C-130s) to the (newer) Jmodels,” 374th Airlift Wing Vice Commander Col. Clarence Lukes Jr. said recently, adding that the C-130Js are scheduled to arrive at Yokota in 2017. The 374th flies 14 C-130s on missions throughout the western Pacific. Aircraft from Yokota helped out after Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines a year ago. The arrival of the new aircraft is in line with U.S. defense chiefs’ pledge to send their newest platforms to the Pacific as part of the Obama administration’s strategic rebalance to the region. Larry Gallogly, Lockheed Martin air mobility programs business development director and a pilot with 30 years of experience flying “Hercs,” said Yokota will receive a stretched version that can hold two extra pallets of cargo. “It’s not about a shiny new plane,” he said. “It’s really about the operational capability they gain with this aircraft compared to the older versions.” Automated navigation and engineering systems mean the new aircraft needs two fewer crewmembers. More efficient composite propellers and new Rolls-Royce engines provide more power, fuel efficiency and range, he said. The C-130J can fly about 3,000 miles in windless conditions — about the same as the C-130H with external fuel tanks, Gallogly said. “The average person, when they look at the aircraft from the outside, will notice it is a little longer (15 extra feet), and the propellers have six blades instead of four,” he said. “But you won’t
notice anything more. For the crewmembers, it has the look and feel of a Herc, but when you push the throttle, you notice the power.” The extra power allows the aircraft to climb more steeply, he said. “This is a very powerful beast, and power can make up for a lot of mistakes and get you into a lot more places.” Other improvements make the plane more efficient in combat. For example, the cargo bay can be quickly reconfigured to handle cargo or passengers, cutting down time in hostile environments. The propellers can be placed in “hotel mode” on the flight line — a process that disconnects them from the engines, which can be left running without kicking up dirt and debris from propeller wash, Gallogly said. “Navigation tools such as a moving map display add to the situational awareness of the pilots,” he said. “You don’t need the navigator.” Likewise, computers and sensors have replaced engineers. The aircraft alerts crew to mechanical faults and often fixes them automatically. At times, pilots must follow emergency checklists read by loadmasters to verify and correct issues in flight, he said. The Air Force, which received its first C-130A Hercules in 1956, already has 200 C-130Js that have flown more than 1.2 million hours. During their first combat deployments — to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005 — C-130Js performed so well that they were immediately sent back to the desert, said Gallogly, who flew missions in the aircraft at the time. “I was a skeptic at first,” he said. “I thought we were getting too fancy. I questioned the reduced crew complement for low-level flying and combat.” The performance of the aircraft quickly erased those concerns, he said. “In Afghanistan at high altitude, the H models could get in and out of airfields, but they could only carry limited cargo — a couple of pallets at most,” Gallogly said. “The J models can go to these locations fully loaded.” More power and cargo space mean two C-130Js can do the job of three
C-130Hs. For example, two of the aircraft were able to move a Marine unit comprising 125 personnel, gear and vehicles during the 2005 deployment, he said. “Every time these airplanes go into hostile fire, you are sending two instead of three,” Gallogly added. Instead of exposing 18 crewmembers to a threat during a typical mission commanders need to send only eight, with flow-on effects for things like lodging and food, he said. Lockheed Martin estimates that — due to the fuel and personnel savings — the C-130J costs 30 percent less to operate than its predecessor, Gallogly
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The burn pit at a combat outpost in Baghdad shows the amount and types of trash openly burned at U.S. bases in Iraq. The Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit over the burn pits to proceed.
Supreme Court allowing burn-pit suits to proceed BY HEATH DRUZIN Stars and Stripes
The Supreme Court is allowing lawsuits involving open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan and asoldier’s electrocution in a base shower to move forward against two of the largest American military contractors, according to wire reports. The lawsuits were filed against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., which had filed appeals saying the lawsuits should be thrown out because the company was operating as an arm of the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two of the lawsuits include claims that troops suffered health problems related to their exposure to burn pits and toxic chemicals on American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another claims that shoddy electrical work led to the electrocution death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, who was killed in a base shower in Iraq.
In general, the government cannot be sued in such cases, but private contractors working on behalf of the government have presented a legal gray area. Supreme Court justices offered no comment for their decision, according to the Associated Press. The Obama administration has sided with the contractors. Open burning of waste was commonplace at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many troops suspect respiratory problems they have suffered after their deployments may be linked the clouds of smoke that often hung over bases. The burn pit decision could open the door to thousands of troops who were potentially exposed to toxic chemicals and encourage more law firms to take up their cases, said Kelly Kennedy, a spokeswoman for Bergmann and Moore law firm, which focuses on veterans’ claims. “If there’s money to be made, people will investigate
those claims more thoroughly,” said Kennedy, who reported on burn pit exposure for Army Times and USA Today. William Hartung, an author and director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, said the decision could lead contractors to charge more if they think they are more vulnerable to lawsuits. But the most immediate effect may be to deter contractors from doing shoddy work. “To the extent that this decision changes the behavior of contractors in war zones, it should be for the better,” he said. “It’s unlikely that many other contractors would engage in the level of malfeasance that Halliburton was allegedly involved in, so I don’t think it should be a concern for contractors who conduct themselves properly.” druzin.heath@stripes.com Twitter: @Druzin_Stripes
WASHINGTON — The House should oppose cuts to military personnel and equipment this year because they could weaken the United States at a time when global threats are on the rise, the new chairman of the Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, staked out a hawkish position for his military oversight committee in his first major policy speech of the new Congress. He signaled he will follow his predecessor and fight Pentagon plans to reduce servicemember compensation and retire weapons systems such as the A-10 Thunderbolt to balance budgets. The speech was an early indication of how a new Republican majority in both chambers of Congress may deal with a $523 billion budget cap on defense spending this year, which will likely prompt the White House and Defense Department to again call for a range of cuts. Both are expected to release proposed budgets early next month. An unpredictable and volatile world “requires the United States to have a military that is both strong and agile, and I think we have a lot of work on both fronts,” Thornberry said at the American Enterprise Institute. “Of course, to be strong, we have to stop the slide in defense budgets.” The defense budget has dipped over the past four years since the U.S. began wrapping up combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the conflicts pumped up spending to its highest point in more than 60 years, and reductions have still left the budget about $100 billion higher than the lows after the Vietnam War and the Cold War, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Congress agreed to spending caps beginning this year that will allow defense spending
to increase by $1.7 billion and maintain small increases in the coming years. The Pentagon sees the ceiling as a cut due to ballooning personnel costs such as health care and expectations that it protect the country from a growing variety of conflicts abroad. Thornberry said military readiness is already plummeting and military families are stretched to the breaking point due to the decreases since 2010. “Our people of course are our most valuable assets,” he said. “We need a comprehensive look at the whole benefit structure rather than nickeland-dime our people … as the [Obama] administration has proposed.” Thornberry also said the Pentagon can be “penny wise and pound foolish” when it comes to trimming spending on equipment and that Congress should take a stronger oversight role in deciding whether its proposals are wise. As an example, he said lawmakers pushed to keep an M1 Abrams tank factory open despite the Army saying it did not need it. The move was criticized but soon after the service sent more of the tanks to Europe in reaction to the instability in the Ukraine, Thornberry said. “Maybe that is some evidence we made the right call,” he said. Last year, former Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, a California Republican, fought a range of proposed Pentagon budget cuts on troop housing allowances, commissaries, and health care insurance, as well as reductions in equipment including the retirement of the A-10 aircraft and the USS George Washington aircraft carrier. McKeon ultimately failed to block all the spending cuts and made a last-minute deal with Democratic leadership on the Senate side that allowed some initial reductions in benefits. tritten.travis@stripes.com Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
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NAPLES, Italy— The U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman and Italian officials said Monday that Washington and Rome share concerns about extremists entering Italy’s south at a time of record migration into the country from the Middle East and North Africa. The U.S. has warned in the past about the possible flow of foreign fighters through Europe’s southern flank. European governments are increasingly worried about their own citizens who have traveled abroad to train with terrorist groups and then return home. The recent attacks in Paris and the thwarted attacks in Belgium have underscored those concerns. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey met with Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti and Chief of Defense Adm. Luigi Binelli Mantelli on Monday. He was joined by U.S. Ambassador to Italy John R. Phillips. The meeting included discussions about U.S. and allied operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Dempsey noted the influx of migrants into Italy from unstable regions to the east and south. Both sides expressed concern that foreign fighters may also try to enter Italy or other parts of Southern Europe, according to a Defense
170K The approximate number of migrants who have entered Italy in the past year, crossing the Mediterranean Sea. That’s roughly four times the number in 2013, according to International Organization for Migration estimates. Department release. Dempsey said countries in the Middle East and North Africa should be a part of any discussion about extremism. “Looking at it one country at a time is not the answer,” Dempsey was quoted as saying. More than 170,000 migrants have entered Italy in the past year, crossing the Mediterranean Sea. That’s roughly four times the number in 2013, according to estimates released last week by the International Organization for Migration. An IOM official said those trying to cross into Italy are refugees and asylum-seekers
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escaping war or impoverished conditions. “We don’t have any reports of infiltration or what we think would be characterized as al-Qaida or something like that using this as a launching point,” spokesman Joel Millman said. Syria remains the top point of origin of refugees arriving by sea, with more than 42,000 coming last year, according to IOM. In recent months, more boats have come to Italy from Turkey, which hosts roughly 1.8 million refugees from Syria’s civil war. Many boats still come from or through Libya, where warring militias have caused instability. The crossings are dangerous. More than 3,000 migrants died last year trying to make the journey, some of them from onboard fights and attacks. Smugglers, who charge migrants hundreds of dollars each, pack them into small, ramshackle boats for a perilous crossing on the open sea. “They’re pushed out to sea and, fingers crossed, they don’t die,” Millman said. “That’s basically the practice.” Italian officials process those who make it to shore, he said, making it more unlikely the journey would be attractive to militants seeking to slip into Europe.
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