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  • Medical engagements more than just health care missions in Panjshir province

    Government officials and the Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir medical team coordinated with local leaders in two separate districts to augment health care services to 563 Afghans, including more than 150 women and 320 children, during medical engagements held in Panjshir province this week. A

  • Landing accident at Bagram Airfield leaves one injured, loss of airplane

    A Navy P-3 Orion airplane overshot the runway surface while landing at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, early today. The airplane sustained serious structural and fire damage. Bagram-based emergency-response units took action on scene to extinguish the fires. The entire crew survived, though one U.S.

  • Airmen play goodwill role at Camp Bucca

    In seven years and four deployments around the world, Staff Sgt. Omar Thompson has never promoted the peace. Even when he was deployed to Camp Bucca, Iraq, three years ago, working in the Theater Internment Facility where detainees in the Global War on Terror are held, he never had the chance to

  • Contracting cuts checks for mission, morale

    At 6 feet 4 inches tall, Master Sgt. Craig McClain has all the physical characteristics of a classic businessman. His imposing height is counterbalanced by his easygoing nature and wide smile, the product of growing up in Attalla, Ala., and one that implies honesty in his dealings with people.

  • CSAF addresses 379 AEW Airmen

    The Air Force's top officer addressed manning, service priorities and success in the Global War on Terror Oct. 20 during his first visit to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility since becoming chief of staff. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said the service's prior strategy

  • PRT on 'cuspid' of success with Afghan dental training program

    In Afghanistan, the average daily income is less than one dollar a day. In the remote southern province of Qalat, it's even less. Their money, more often than not, goes directly toward the necessities of life. So when the decision to pay for any type of preventative medical care is weighed against