British soldiers from 1st Battalion, Irish Guards,

British soldiers from 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, the Brigade Advisory Group, climb a hill at the end of a security patrol in Nahr-e Saraj, Nov. 8. During operation "Omid Char," hope four, the mentoring team from the Irish Guards and the tollay from the Afghan National Army's 215th Corps drove a wedge into the villages of Sa'idan and Dagian to stop the free flow of Taliban insurgents. Also, the need for a larger presence of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in the area was another reason for operation.