Description
An Apache helicopter provides protection from the air while paratroopers from A Co, 1st Battalion, 325th AIR, move into position shortly after air assaulting into Lwar Kowndalan, Afghanistan to start a five-day mission.
The War in Afghanistan followed the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan. Its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power. This is the longest war in United States history.
