A U.S. platoon awaits the end of Afghan war

View Photo Gallery — A war ends in a remote Afghan outpost: Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade are in the final months of their mission in Combat Outpost Jaghatu, which will likely close later this year.

 JAGHATU, Afghanistan — The platoon sergeant poses a simple question to the men of 3rd Platoon: “What do you consider success on a mission?”
There is an uneasy silence in the dark chow tent. In a few months, the U.S. Army will bulldoze its portion of the base, part of America’s slow withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan. All that will remain here in this isolated place is a small Afghan army camp and a mostly empty government building with a mortar hole in its roof, the sum total of 11 years of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in this district 65 miles south of Kabul.

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