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  • PRT delivers supplies to Laghman schools

    Soldiers and Airmen from the Methar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team delivered nearly a ton of much-needed supplies to two schools in the capital city of Laghman Province November 21. The PRT distributed 1,300 backpacks, along with teacher's kits, hygiene products, soccer balls, notebooks, pens,

  • Thanksgiving Day Message

    When the Mayflower arrived in the "New World" in 1620, the settlers faced a harsh winter marked by starvation and disease. Despite the difficulties, none of them chose to return to England with the Mayflower. In October 1621, their fortunes changed. The Pilgrims welcomed a successful harvest so

  • Three Warriors escape suicide bomber with minor injuries

    Members of the Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team were fortunate enough to walk away from an explosion caused by a suicide bomber large enough to decimate a vehicle down to rubble and damage buildings over 100 yards away. On Nov. 1, a convoy escorting a cargo truck headed to Qalat from Kandahar

  • Afghan women, Panjshir PRT women chat

    Women across the province meet here monthly with the female members of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team to learn from each other and exchange ideas. Affectionately known as "Chick Chats," the cultural exchange was the brainchild of the U.S. Agency for International Development

  • Mehtar Lam PRT provides electricity to Afghan community

    A new micro-hydroelectric plant officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony near the village of Rayn, Afghanistan in the Alishang District of Laghman Province October 30. The 25-kilowatt power-generating facility next to the Alishang River is the first of its kind to be completed in the

  • Engineers get a unique deployment

     The reconstruction engineer team in Qalat city have a tremendous responsibility when it comes to development, but site surveys and digging wells while dodging improvised explosive devices is just part of the job. Being an engineer in a combat zone is not a regular experience when it comes to

  • Panjshir PRT treats patients, prepares remote Afghan village for winter

    Twenty-four members of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team, the 405th Civil Affairs Battalion and Task Force Tiger once again made the 4-hour trek to the northernmost district here to assist the province's most impoverished population. A cooperative Medical Civic Action Program, or MEDCAP,

  • Website works with Airmen to deliver care packages overseas

    In August 2003, a Maryland family started the AnySoldier.com Website as a way for people to support deployed Soldiers. Two years later, they created separate sites to help those in the sister services. Their site for those in the Air Force, AnyAirman.com, lists deployed Airmen who volunteer as