17 April 2010

Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan

The Grenadier Guards and making friends and influencing people, instead of killing them.


Soldiers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards' Queen's Company have recently helped the Afghan National Army hold a reintegration shura with members of the Taliban.

The aim of the event was to encourage members of the Taliban who are undecided as to their future or allegiance to come and meet the Afghan Government officials for the area and discuss their options for returning into accepted society.


- edit: image fixed -

By: Brant

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The illustration you have in your post is the cap badge of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, a militia infantry regiment based in Montreal. The (British) Grenadier Guards cap badge is an unadorned flaming grenade, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grenadier-Guards-Cap-Badge.jpg.
(I know, you just did it to see if anyone was watching...!)

Brant said...

image fixed - not sure what happened there. must've uploaded the wrong image of the 4-5 I had to choose from... Thanks