THE efforts by the Royal Marines to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan have been praised by the Defence Secretary and First Sea Lord on a visit to Helmand.Dr Liam Fox and Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope – plus his Army counterpart, Chief of the General Staff General Sir Peter Wall – spent two days in the Lashkar Gah area to see the progress made on the ground by British forces.
In particular, they witnessed the training being delivered by British personnel to thousands of Afghan soldiers and policemen, ahead of the first phase of the transition of authority to local forces later in the summer.
