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  • Aerial gunners provide cover for lifesaving mission

    Air Force Combat Search and Rescue crews fly throughout Afghanistan, providing airlift and medical care to servicemembers wounded on the battlefield. More often than not, this requires them to fly into and operate in extremely hostile and precarious situations and locations. Aerial gunners are

  • AMC commander visits AOR – highlights mobility’s role

    Like clockwork, an Air Mobility Command aircraft departs on a mission within the area-of-operations every two minutes every hour of every day. Providing the three cornerstones of the command's mobility mission - airlift, aerial refueling and aeromedical evacuation - AMC Airmen have provided constant

  • Iraqi air force, army deliver supplies to local communities

    With the help of many organizations back in the United States, the Iraqi Provincial Government received three pallets of humanitarian relief supplies, which they will distribute to the local populace here. "Helping people who are less fortunate is always a good thing whether in your home town or

  • Panjshir PRT, Afghan leaders celebrate girls’ school opening

    Haish Saidqi Girls' School in Panjshir province resounded with laughter of children for the first time, June 23. As the little girls milled about their newly constructed eight-classroom school in Rokha District, their faces beamed with excitement as teachers scrawled the Dari alphabet across freshly

  • Medics perform three-tier mission in Nangarhar

    The medics assigned to the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team boast a three-fold mission here. The medical team is responsible for running an aid station, providing combat support and helping with the ongoing reconstruction efforts in Nangarhar Province. And as a recent addition to their

  • Airmen take reins on Army cargo movement mission

    As the dust was still settling after one of the worst sand storms of the year here, a small group of Airmen from the 22nd Movement Control Team, which falls under 732nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron and works day-to-day for the Army's 49th Transportation Battalion, were in the process

  • Command-and-control relationships critical to close air support mission

    America and its Coalition partners own the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan. The air superiority provided by U.S. Air Forces Central warplanes is non-debatable. However, as part of a joint force engaged in hard-fought ground conflicts against enemies with no aerial capabilities, the Air Force

  • C-17 crew uses combat offload to deliver materials to warzone

    A C-17 Globemaster III crew from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron used a combat offload procedure here June 20 to deliver materials that will be used to help defend the local population. This was the first time in many years that the combat offload procedure was used in Afghanistan by a

  • AF medics work with, mentor, Afghan counterparts to provide care

    Air Force Medics here are working hand-in-hand with their counterparts from the Afghan National Army, out of a co-located clinic, to provide mentoring on medical equipment, administration and military medical care. The three-person staff, consisting of a physician's assistant, independent medical