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Unit/Organization Information
  • Reegional Command, South
  • 1st Cavalry Division
Location
Coin Location: 2I12
Homebase: Fort Hood, Texas
Deployment: Regional Cmd. South, Afghanistan
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 24 June 2014.
Donated by: CJ3 Aviation, 1st Cav.
Copies: 1 of 1

C004771

Location: 2I12

Poker Chip: Unit - Deployment

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Narrative

Round shaped poker chip, blue in color, 1 3/4 inches in diameter.

1st Cavalry Division.

Regional Command South (RC South) is comprised of six provinces: Nimruz, Helmand, Kandahar, Zabol, Urozgan and Day Kundi. RC South spans roughly 78,000 square miles, making it slightly larger than Nebraska, and shares a 550-mile border with Pakistan. The terrain throughout southern Afghanistan is mostly flat and arid. Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar are predominantly vast, flat, hard-packed desert. The provinces of Uruzgan and Zabol have mixed flat and mountainous terrain, while Day Kundi is mountainous. Helmand and Kandahar are the two largest and most populated provinces, and their population is concentrated along two major rivers, the Arghandab River and the Helmand River. Kandahar—Afghanistan’s second largest city with a population of half a million—is the political and economic center of the South.