The Battle of Kamdesh took place during the war in Afghanistan. It occurred on October 3, 2009, when a force of 300 Taliban assaulted the American Combat...
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Combat Outpost Keating (redirect from PRT Kamdesh)
Mountain Lion. Combat Outpost Keating is best known as the setting of the Battle of Kamdesh which occurred on October 3, 2009. After an attack on October 3...
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Kāmdēsh (Pashto: کامدېش, Persian: کامدیش), or Kamdeish, is a town in the Landai Sin Valley, and the center of the Kamdesh District in Nuristan Province...
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The Outpost (2019 film) (category Films about battles and military operations)
non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper, about the Battle of Kamdesh in the War in Afghanistan. It stars Scott Eastwood...
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Ty Carter (category War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) recipients of the Medal of Honor)
Medal of Honor recipient. He was awarded the United States Armed Forces' highest military honor for his actions during the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan...
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Clinton Romesha (category War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) recipients of the Medal of Honor)
United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Kamdesh in 2009 during the War in Afghanistan. Born into...
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Jacob Scipio (category Alumni of the University of Essex)
months later he starred in The Outpost, a true story of American soldiers in the Battle of Kamdesh. Scipio played Justin T. Gallegos, a US army Staff Sgt...
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United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan (category Military history of Afghanistan)
another 24 wounded during the Battle of Kamdesh. A force of 300 Taliban fighters had attacked a U.S. outpost at the town of Kamdesh in an attempt to overrun...
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Will Attenborough (category Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge)
London Grandslam in 2018. In 2019, he played Ed Faulkner, a veteran of the Battle of Kamdesh, in The Outpost, based on Jake Tapper's book on the War in Afghanistan...
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forces. The battle was dramatized in the 2005 film The 9th Company. Battle of Kamdesh, a 2009 battle 20 miles from Wanat, the bloodiest battle for U.S. forces...
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