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  • Shah Joy Villagers Ready to Make a Stand

    Fifty men answered the call to protect their village against insurgents in Shah Joy District, Zabul province, Sept 16. The men have volunteered to participate in a program that trains and arms villagers, called Arbakai, or the commerce stability program. The villagers will partner with Afghan

  • Afghan Air Force Dedicated to Medical Assistance

    A strong sign of the strength of an organization would be in the way it takes care of its people. The Afghan Air Force (AAF) can now speak to its own strength with the recent development of dedicated medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) missions. Beginning in September of 2010, the AAF transitioned from

  • Afghan Air Force Takes Aeromedical Evacuation to the Next Level

    Afghan National Security Forces and the International Security Force successfully executed NATO's contingency plan to conduct an aeromedical evacuation of the Kandahar Regional Medical Center (KRMH) on Sept. 12, 2010.Afghan Air Force Flight Medics, working in concert with their NATO Air Training

  • Photo Essay: 521st AMOG Moves Galaxies

    521st Air Mobility Operations Group C-5 Galaxy maintenance Airmen keep C-5's in the air, in support of Operation New Dawn.View the slideshow here

  • Record-setting tankers key to combat mission planning every day in AOR

    Tankers set a new record for air refueling in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, as U.S. Air Forces Central mission planners reached 4.5 million pounds of fuel delivered to aircraft Sept. 17, while sustaining an unprecedented average of 3.7 million pounds of fuel delivered daily for

  • NATO Air Training Command: More Countries, More Experience, More Solutions

    The Combined Air Power Transition Force  was created in 2007 with the expressed goal of developing the then named Afghan National Army Air Corps into a legitimate operational force capable of promoting the Afghan governments agenda to its country and its international neighbors. 2010 saw the ANAAC

  • Record-setting airdrops sustain troops at Forward Operating Bases

    U.S. Air Force airlifters continue to set records for airdrops sustaining ground forces in the U.S. CENTCOM AOR with more than 3,800 Container Delivery System supply bundles delivered in August. Airdropped supplies are packaged in CDS bundles, which allow safe delivery by parachute. The new record

  • Soldiers maintain aerial ambulance

    After the 9-Line for medevac was received, two UH-60 Black Hawks lift off the Heli pad heading into the night to bring injured servicemembers to safety.This life-saving service would not be possible without the hardworking Soldiers of Charlie Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment,