After years of sustained fighting and casualties with little evident progress, the US military closed Korangal Outpost on April 14, 2010 a decision made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

For his actions during Operation Rock Avalanche in October 2007, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.

When his patrol was ambushed on October 25, 2007, Giunta managed to save his team's sergeant, Joshua Brennan, from being dragged away and captured by two Taliban fighters.

British professional photographer Tim Hetherington won the World Press Photo award for 2008 [7] with a shot he took while reporting on the war in the Korangal Valley for Vanity Fair magazine in January 2008.

[8] Sebastian Junger's (2010) book War and the subsequent film Restrepo document his experiences while embedded with a US Army company in the Korangal valley.