PB Shamshad

Patrol Base Shamshad
Helmand Province in Afghanistan
Afghan soldiers at Patrol Base Shamshad
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Owner	International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
Operator	Afghan National Army (ANA) British Army Maavägi United States Army United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Patrol Base Shamshad is a foreign military base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.^[1] ^[2] The camp is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Garmsir.^[3]

Both Estonian and British troops have manned the base.^[1]^[3] The base has been used to train Afghan soldiers.^[2]

Units

The following units have been posted here at some point:

'A' Squadron of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards^[3] under Operation Herrick IX between October 2008 and April 2009.
Company C, Expeditionary Estonian Task Force during November 2009.
2nd Brigade Platoon, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan during November 2009.

1 2 Aaron Rooks (2009-11-11). "ANGLICO Marines ensure Estonian success in NATO effort". United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2010-06-18. There was never a time, in more than two months of combat operations, where Estonian soldiers left the protective wire of Patrol Base Masood or Patrol Base Shamshad, located less than four kilometers away from each other, without the presence of a force multiplier. That force multiplier came in the form of five Marines from 2nd ANGLICO, MEB-Afghanistan.
1 2 "NATO forces in Afghanistan: Afghan National Army Welcomes Newest Soldiers in Helmand Province". ISAF. 2009-11-28. The 30-year-old ANA soldier from Sherberghan, Afghanistan, continues to help strengthen the defense of his nation by training ANA recruits on Patrol Base Shamshad, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Twenty-eight of these recruits recently completed two weeks of training as part of the ANA's 6th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps, Nov. 26.
1 2 3 "St David's Day gunfire and daffs". BBC News. 2009-04-23. So here I was again. At another desolate outpost in the 'war on terror', filming the Welsh Cavalry, otherwise known as the Queens Dragoon Guards (QDG). Two years ago I was with them on the Iraq-Iran border. This time it was Patrol Base Shamshad, about 15km south of Garmsir, in lawless Helmand Province.

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