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Maj. Kurt Workmaster checks a Kuchi boy's eyes during an examination conducted as part of the Medical Civic Action Program in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan, on Thursday, May 18, 2006. Major Workmaster is the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team physician assistant. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Cumper)
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 treatment for Kuchi families as they move their sheep,
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Tech. Sgt. William Phillips, left, an aircraft structrual maintenance specialist, and Staff Sgt. Steven Tsaffarides, a metals technologist, mount a lighted "follow me" sign to a vehicle used to tow aircraft, called a tug. The two Airmen stepped up to assist the transient alert section and mounted the sign after the truck used to guide aircraft to parking spots at Bagram broke down. Parking aircraft is crucial at Bagram because of its limited ramp sapce.  Up to 650 transient aircraft transit Bagram each month brining in vital supplies and people to support Operation Enduring Freedom. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)  Saving the day

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Capt. Thomas Kanewske inspects the ordnance on an A-10 Thunderbolt II before taking off on a combat mission from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 23, 2006.  Captain Kanewske is deployed to Bagram from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)
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 support of the Afghan government, have confronted and
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Maj. Kurt Workmaster, Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team physician assistant, examines 6 year-old Idris as his father and members of the PRT watch May 8. Mr. Thahir is the GOA Representative for Environmental Ministry. Seated next to him is Maj. Cliff White, Panjshir PRT, and Mr. Fletcher Burton, Director of the Panjshir PRT. (Photo by Shahla Hammond). 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 performing inspections May 7. The following day, PRT
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Senior Airman Dennis Martinez, a communications technician stationed at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, is deployed as a member of the Provincial Reconstruction Team based in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. He came to the aid of an Afghan boy injured in a bus accident May 11. (Photo by Technical Sgt. John Cumper). 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 bruises after his encounter with a bus near a safe
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Senior Airman Charles Coles (foreground) covers a rooftop from the ground with an M-4 rifle during Military Operations in Urban Terrain training at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 9, 2006. The facility here is designed to train Airmen and Soldiers in close-quarters combat with enemy forces. Airman Coles is with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle) 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 Squadron were exercising here May 9, in the Army’s
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Default Air Force Logo 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 intra-theater heavy airlift support, helping
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Tech. Sgt. Roland Alexander teaches Afghan National Army soldiers how to test fuel.  Airmen on embedded training teams are training ANA troops about supply issues. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Orville F. Desjarlais) 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 military members of the Afghan National Army,
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Col. Mike Wilson looks over the mud wall of Kala-I Janghi near Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan.  The ancient fortress was the site of a bloody Taliban uprising in 2001.   Colonel Wilson is deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan.   (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Orville F. Desjarlais Jr.) Afghan fortress site of Taliban's last deadly siege
Just a few minutes drive from where an Air Force embedded training team is mentoring Afghan National Army soldiers is the site of the Taliban’s last deadly siege. It is also the location where the first American died in the war against terrorism following Sept. 11, 2001; where John Walker Lindh -- known as the American Taliban -- was captured; and
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Seen in the rearview mirror of a "follow me" truck, a C-17 Globemaster III is guided to a parking spot at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.  The transient alert section of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron has the dubious task of finding parking spots for some 650 aircraft per month that fly cargo and passengers into the air base in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle) Transient alert Airmen provide Bagram some staying power
Imagine parking hundreds of cars and trucks in a convenience store parking lot. It would take ingenuity and creativity, kind of like stuffing people into a phone booth. Now, imagine parking those cars if they were the size of a C-17 and the task of the transient alert team at the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing here becomes a little clearer. “It’s
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