COIN case: LRA Lords Resistance Army

[carl]

Stars and Stripes is doing a series of stories on American assistance to the FARDC. The link is to the first of the stories. It is about a rapid reaction battalion being trained by us. The first mission of the battalion will be to deploy to the north and hunt down the LRA.

http://www.stripes.com/trainees-try-...-past-1.144366

In the photo gallery accompanying the story is a photo of a 65 year old 2nd LT.

Same old Congo it seems. The second story in the series states that when the US ceased supplying the battalion and the FARDC took over supply, the troops went from 3 meals a day to one.