The Araban is a green meander of villages, orchards and fields in the Pashtun-dominated mountains southwest of Kabul. Military planners believed high-level Taliban leaders directed attacks from the area against Highway 1, the arterial route connecting the capital and Kandahar, and other targets, including U.S. outposts such as Dash-e-Towp, site of a massive truck bombing in mid-July.
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After skimming through that, misleading title is a bit misleading.

Planning the assault fell to the Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division — part of Task Force Dagger. It was a unit of cooks and fuelers, mechanics and clerks, led by an engineer, Lt. Col. Blace Albert. Three maneuver companies, including cavalry and infantry troops, were attached to Albert’s command for the mission. An aviation company, plus Air Force units, would support them.

And they went into a combat zone and took part in armed conflict.
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