LHA-10 USS Helmand Province Amphibious Assault Ship US Navy

US Navy - Amphibious Assault Ship
LHA 10 - USS Helmand Province

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lha-10 uss helmand province america class amphibious assault ship us navy 02xx

05/24

Type, class: Amphibious Assault Ship (general purpose); America class / Flight I
Builder: Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:
Awarded: 2023
Laid down: ?
Launched: -
Christened: -
Commissioned: -

Homeport: -
Namesake: Helmand Province Campaign, Afghanistan
Ships Motto: I
Technical Data: see: INFO > America class Amphibious Assault Ship - LHA

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USS Helmand Province (LHA 10):

The Helmand province campaign

... was a series of military operations conducted by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) forces against Taliban insurgents and other local groups in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Their objective was to control a province that was known to be a Taliban stronghold, and a center of opium production. None of the ISAF's intended strategic and political objectives were achieved in the long term.

The deployment of international, mostly British, forces was part of the stage three expansion of the ISAF mandate, to cover the southern regions of Afghanistan. Until then Helmand province had seen only a limited coalition presence.

In the spring of 2008, a battalion of U.S. Marines arrived to reinforce the British presence. In the spring of 2009, 11,000 additional Marines poured into the province, the first wave of President Obama's 21,000 troop surge into Afghanistan.

On June 19, 2009, the British Army (with ISAF and ANA forces) launched Operation Panther's Claw and on July 2, 2009, US Marines launched Operation Khanjar, both major offensives into the province in hopes of securing the region before the Afghanistan presidential elections and turning the tide of the insurgency there.

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