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  • Camp Eggers staff visit Afghan girls' school

    Nearly 70 members of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan delivered backpacks, toys and school supplies to the Zabuli Education Center for Girls and Women May 8 outside of Kabul. American servicemembers from Camp Eggers visited the school as part of the volunteer community relations

  • Airmen, Soldiers hone skills of Afghanistan National Police

    A Parwan Police Mentoring Team traveled to Dandar, a small village in the Parwan province of Afghanistan, May 8 to instruct members of the Afghanistan National Police on hand-to-hand combat, community policing, coordination-cell training and criminal investigation. The PMT is a highly-efficient team

  • May 11 airpower summary: C-130s provide heavy airlift

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations May 11, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles dropped a guided bomb

  • Brothers in arms, family by blood

    Stepping off an aircraft in a foreign country after days of travel for the first time can often be overwhelming for any Airman. After in-processing, trying to get their bearing and the lay of the new desert terrain, many newly deployed Airmen seek refuge in their new unit. Two members of the 447th

  • PRT engineers, Afghan contractors ensure quality construction

    More than 80 Afghan contractors recently participated in a workshop hosted by the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers to discuss the Commander's Emergency Response Program contracting process and to present upgraded construction standards. The annual workshop explains the bidding

  • May 10 Air Power Summary

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations May 10, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle dropped a guided bomb

  • Four legged defenders sniff out trouble

    Prompted by only a few words of command by his handler, military working dog "Charlie" sprints ahead and rabidly thrusts to attack a simulated enemy during a recent training session here. For Charlie, a German Shepherd deployed here, this attack is as large a priority as if it were a real insurgent

  • Pre-positioning weapons at Balad to save $1.3M

    Balad Air Base has been chosen by Air Force leadership to be the test base for a weapons pre-positioning initiative that is expected to save the Air Force approximately $1.3 million per year in transportation costs. This initiative involves the pre-positioning of M-9s and M-16s which will allow