Regional Command Southwest
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Members of National Interdiction Unit Team 10 and Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, wait for helicopters 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.
120322-M-JI376-020
Members of National Interdiction Unit Team 10 and Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, wait for helicopters 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.