Paktika

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... or Paktika Province.

I can't remember which, but because they have to name two provinces that only have one consonant off.

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By its count, they killed 364 civilians.

On September 21st, Pakistani aircraft hit districts in Kunar and Paktika provinces.

Three days later, Pakistan's information minister said his forces had struck 10 locations in Afghanistan used to launch and store drones.

A resident of Kandahar told a French news agency he heard a jet and then a large explosion in the middle of the city.

He, and he was killed.

We, we did a raid and killed him in Paktia or Paktika, I think it was in Burma.

Um, and then we found intelligence that there was a camp there.

We had a presence in Afghanistan, the largest Al-Qaeda camp, and we didn't know about it until we conducted a raid against a different Al-Qaeda training facility.

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title X, Section 8742 United States Code, takes pride in presenting the Air Force Cross to Senior Airman Jason Dean Cunningham, United States Air Force for extraordinary heroism in military operations against an opposing armed force while serving as a pararescue man of the 38th Rescue Squadron.

347th Operations Group in action near the village of Marzak in Paktika province of Afghanistan on 4 March 2002.

On that proud day, Airman Cunningham was the primary Air Force combat search and rescue medic assigned to a quick reaction force tasked to recover two American servicemen evading capture in austere terrain occupied by masked Al-Qaeda.

and Taliban forces.

The way they found him, we're not.

In 2012, Mohammed Ashan was described as a mid-level Taliban commander operating in Afghanistan's Paktika province.

Authorities suspected him of plotting at least two attacks, and they wanted to find him badly enough that they distributed wanted posters bearing his name and face.

And on those posters was a reward, $100.

Well, less than three days later, Pakistan did just that.

The strikes hit Afghanistan's Kunar and Paktika provinces at around three AM.

Pakistan says the airstrikes followed a planned intelligence-driven ground operation in the country's northwest and targeted safe havens used by the groups behind recent attacks on Pakistani forces.

Across the border, however, Afghan officials were describing a very different outcome.

They say one of the bombs struck a family home, killing a man, a woman, and a girl while wounding four of their relatives.

The United Nations has since confirmed those civilian deaths.

Other strikes hit Paktika province, where Afghan officials say a shop and an unoccupied house were destroyed without causing additional casualties.

To understand where we are now, let's return to Friday's assault in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat.

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they didn't want to be in first battalion and i'm i'm not it's not because of the commanders it's not because it's a lot of culture stuff especially when we found out that they were going to kunar um you know you know you were in the 82nd you know what it's like it's a bunch of paratroopers they just want to get where the fight's at Well, Paktika had a bit of a fight, too.

I think if Second Battalion hadn't had the fight that they'd had, First Battalion would have looked back on that deployment with great pride and accomplishment.

And we did.

He was one of the platoon leaders for their bee company.

And so that was where that unit was.

That was Paktika.

And they learned some of those.