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  • Wing promotes, recognizes Airmen

    Members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing gathered in the A-10 clamshell May 31 to recognize promotees and monthly award winners. Promoted to: Airman first class: Christopher Felix, Ryan Gordon, Ryan Martinez and John Morrow.Senior airman: Shawn Fradet, David Lanskey, Patrick O’Hanlon, Michael

  • From ashes, rubble -- a school

    Most of the students don’t speak English, but their smiles said it all.Happiness is hard to find in this country at war. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and in 1980 Noman High School became a casualty of war after it was bombed. The school, located in the Parwan Province near here,

  • PRT medics make house call for Afghan nomads

    Medics, interpreters and support personnel from the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team set up a short-notice medical outreach May 18 for the nomadic Kuchi people during their spring migration through the Panjshir Valley. Known as a Medical Civic Action Program or MEDCAP, the event provided

  • Coalition operation attacks extremists near Kandahar

    Coalition forces conducted a significant operation early this morning in the Kandahar region near the village of Azizi that resulted in the deaths of up to 80 extremists, military officials here reported. This was the third such operation in this area within a week in which coalition forces, in

  • Air Force medic treats Afghan boy

    After a chance meeting on a street with a boy in the mountainous village of Rokha, an Air Force physician assistant was brought in to treat the youngster the very next day.Fletcher Burton, Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team director, met 6-year-old Idris when he and a team were in the area

  • PRT Airman aids boy injured by bus

    Whether the young Afghan boy was hit by a bus or slipped and fell from it May 11 is unknown. What is known is that an Airman was soon there to render aid.Thirteen-year-old Mohammad Yousuf, son of Amir Shah, from the village of Obdurah, was treated at Rokha Emergency Hospital for multiple cuts and

  • Security Forces practice urban combat

    Deployed Airmen, distributing humanitarian supplies, are taken hostage by enemy forces while visiting an Afghan village. It’s now up to the accompanying squad of security forces to rescue the Airmen and eliminate the bad guys. This is the scenario members of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces

  • CENTAF releases airpower summary

    U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary from May 13 to May 17. May 13: In Afghanistan, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs provided close air support to coalition troops in contact with enemy forces near Oruzgan. Air Force C-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided

  • Bagram Airmen help build nation

    After a six-day killing frenzy of local Afghans, the Taliban seized control of this city in 1998. In November 2001, with U.S. assistance, the Afghan Northern Alliance recaptured the city of 180,000 residents.Today, Airmen continue to assist Afghanistan in its war against extremists by mentoring the