Operation Valiant Strike
Operation Valiant Strike was a major United States military ground operation in Afghanistan announced on 19 March 2003. It involved 600 men of the 2nd and 3rd battalions , 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, along with Romanian and Afghani troops. The combined forces moved through Kandahar and parts of Southern Afghanistan with the objective of eliminating enemy forces and weapons caches while also attempting to gather intelligence on Taliban activity in the area.
By the time the operation concluded on March 24, 2003, coalition forces had detained 13 suspected Taliban fighters and confiscated more than 170 rocket-propelled grenades, 180 land mines, 20 automatic rifles and machine guns, as well as tons of rockets, rifles, and launchers
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