Starting February 28, the 341st Infantry Battalion White Sharks participating in ENDURING FREEDOM operation are acting within the Multinational Brigade AEGIS commanded by the Canadian Brigade General David Frasier.

Colonel Kevins Owens, commander of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade BAYONET gave, in a ceremony occurred in Kandahar, the responsibility of the area of operations in South-East of Afghanistan and thanked to the Romanian soldiers and the other military personnel from the coalition for the way they fulfilled the peacekeeping missions and the maintain of security in this area.

Lieutenant General Carl Eikenberry, commander of the Allied Forces in Afghanistan and Major General Benjamin Freakley, commander of CJTF 76 during this ceremony appreciated at their turn the professionalism of the soldiers from Constanta, Romania acting in the Afghani theater of operation.

MoND Press Office