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Marines lead Afghanistan National Police members on a patrol from the Civil Military Operations Center in the Garmsir city district. These intergrated patrols demonstrate the transfer of responsibility in the region from the Marines to ISAF and Afghan forces. These patrols span the entire region are intended to not only provide security, but help identify damages that will receive repiration payment. - Marines lead Afghanistan National Police members on a patrol from the Civil Military Operations Center in the Garmsir city district. These intergrated patrols demonstrate the transfer of responsibility in the region from the Marines to ISAF and Afghan forces. These patrols span the entire region are intended to not only provide security, but help identify damages that will receive repiration payment.

A Marine with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, pays a local resident for damages his property incurred while Marines battled insurgents in Garmsir. The MEU recently opened a Civivl Military Operations Center in the region to begin the reconstruction phase in Garmsir. The MEU enetered Garmsir in Late April and quickly dispatched insurgents from an area that had not been under NATO-ISAF control previously. The MEU remains in Garmsir conductiong classic COIN operations. - A Marine with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, pays a local resident for damages his property incurred while Marines battled insurgents in Garmsir. The MEU recently opened a Civivl Military Operations Center in the region to begin the reconstruction phase in Garmsir. The MEU enetered Garmsir in Late April and quickly dispatched insurgents from an area that had not been under NATO-ISAF control previously. The MEU remains in Garmsir conductiong classic COIN operations.