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  • Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team warming hearts

    The Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team delivered coats, hats, gloves, school supplies and food to the district area after they helped assist in the recovery of a disabled truck owned by the PRT.The PRT also delivered baby and infant supplies to the Strong Foods program. The Strong Foods program

  • Sports brings nations together

    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."- UnknownA small group of U.S. servicemembers and Iraqi's, believing they have the power to change the world, played a few games of volleyball Dec. 16 at Ali Base, Iraq.

  • Commentary: Even inside the wire, keeping us safe is no simple task

    "They call it 'Mortaritaville.'"That's the response I got from my master sergeant at my home station earlier this year, after I asked her how safe it was at Balad. I had just gotten my deployment tasking to JBB, and she had been here in 2008. She described in detail how I could expect to "hit the

  • USO tour brings celebrities, cheer to Bagram servicemembers

    Hundreds of Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines gathered here Dec. 15, to enjoy a United Service Organizations' Holiday Troop Visit tour featuring country superstar singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus, tennis pro Anna Kournikova, acclaimed comedian Dave Attell and legendary tennis coach and

  • Airmen help Soldiers communicate in a virtual 'SNAP'

    Senior Airman Randell Rountree feels surrounded.And he is... surrounded by a sea of more than 50 Soldiers in Army Combat Uniforms as contrasted by his Airman Battle Uniform, but he's OK with his situation.Airman Rountree, deployed from the 1st Communication Squadron, Langley Air Force Base, Va., is

  • Air Force nurses welcome Iraqi colleagues, share skills

    Seventeen Iraqi medical care providers recently attended the December installment of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group's Iraqi Nursing Partnership Program.As the responsible drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq continues, the program is intended to further the medical capabilities of local care

  • Program empowers Afghan citizens to protect against threat of IED attacks

    A new program backed by Afghan National Security Forces and Combined Joint Task Force-82 empowers Afghan citizens to take a stand against improvised explosive device attacks. "Operation Jaeza," or "reward," gives Afghans a protection from enemy actions targeting innocent people, said Maj. Gen. Abdul

  • Bastion “Port Dawgs” have small paw print, large mission

    The team works out of several wooden huts and tents, surrounded by pallets, rocks and mud, laboring tirelessly handling the thousands of passengers, pallets and vehicles flying into the Southern Afghanistan base.They proudly proclaim they move as much cargo here as their unit does back home.What is

  • Squadron highlights capabilities during Afghan rescue mission

    A soldier is wounded during a joint British and Afghanistan National Army patrol in Helmand Province. Shot through both legs, his condition worsens while being cared for by the medics. It is time to call in the professionals to get him off the battlefield and to the hospital. The radios erupt with