Regional Command Southwest
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Afghan National Interdiction Unit Capt. Farouk, commanding officer of NIU Team 10, waits for a helicopter before a raid on a suspected opium production facility here, March 22, 2012. The raid was part of Operation Psarlay Taba, a partnered counternarcotics operation conducted by the NIU and 2nd Bn., 9th Marines, to disrupt narcotics trafficking around Helmand province’s Marjah district. The partnered force captured around 26,000 pounds of assorted opium products over the course of the four-month operation.
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Afghan National Interdiction Unit Capt. Farouk, commanding officer of NIU Team 10, waits for a helicopter before a raid on a suspected opium production facility here, March 22, 2012. The raid was part of Operation Psarlay Taba, a partnered counternarcotics operation conducted by the NIU and 2nd Bn., 9th Marines, to disrupt narcotics trafficking around Helmand province’s Marjah district. The partnered force captured around 26,000 pounds of assorted opium products over the course of the four-month operation.