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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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6/01 2006
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Saving the day
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6/01 2006
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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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6/01 2006
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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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5/30 2006
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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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5/30 2006
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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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5/30 2006
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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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5/29 2006
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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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5/29 2006
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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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5/27 2006
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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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5/27 2006
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