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  • Air Force Master Sergeant makes difference in Afghans' lives

    A NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan noncommissioned officer recently won the Air Force 2010 League of United Latin American Citizens "Excellence in Military Service Award" for service during his last deployment to Afghanistan.U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Limweshe Wright, NTM-A's combined joint

  • C-27A advisor squadron now 100 percent manned

    A year of success stories continues for Airmen of the 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, who are advising Afghanistan National Army Air Corps Soldiers on the use of the C-27A Spartan, with the addition of three new aircraft, six pilots and two loadmaster advisors."We are now fully manned and

  • Air Force, Slovakians team up, complete new facility

    A joint effort with coalition forces culminated in the completion of a new airfield passenger terminal on Kandahar Airfield May 20.The Commander of Kandahar Airfield, United Kingdom Royal Air Force Air Commodore Gordon Moulds, received the keys to the new passenger handling facility building during

  • U. S. Air Force humanitarian assistance continues in Tajikistan

    More than 17,000 pounds of humanitarian cargo was delivered to Tajikistan May 21, in an ongoing effort to provide relief and medical aid to displaced Tajiks after floods and mudslides devastated the Kulyab District earlier this month.An Air Force C-130 Hercules crew from the 774th Expeditionary

  • Air Force, ANAAC members partner for a day

    Members of the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, the 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group and the Afghan National Army Air Corps, Kandahar Air Wing, met May 18 to mingle, ask questions and learn more about each unit's mission and aircraft at the ANAAC compound on Kandahar Airfield.The day provided the

  • Airman leads joint Mi-35 attack helicopter advisor team for Afghan Air Corps

    Flying an airframe that became an icon for helicopter pilots because of its prominence in movies like "Red Dawn" and "Rambo III," a joint team of American, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian advisors assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron are making strides helping Afghanistan National

  • Joint team ensures supplies get to war-fighters

    Less than 30 seconds ... that's all it takes for 40 container-delivery-system bundles -totaling 70,000 pounds of supplies - to drop out of the back of a C-17 Globemaster III.As the bundles parachute deploy and descend toward the designated drop zone, Airmen from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift

  • Airmen, Afghans execute reverse medical evacuations

    The aim of military medicine is to get war-fighters healed and back to the battlefield - or to their families - as quickly as possible, but in Afghanistan there are transportation issues.Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group and Soldiers with the Afghanistan National Army Air Corps

  • Joint Hospital caring for war-fighters, Afghans

    Located in the Khost Province, a joint team of Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen are working at the Salerno Hospital to "care for those in harm's way.""This has been a wonderful place to learn, grow and develop my skills as an emergency-medical technician," said Tech. Sgt. William Haley at the 452nd