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  • AFCENT Band Brings the Funk to Bagram

    There was something different in the air this week, and no it was not the usual dust.The Air Force Central Command Band, 'New Directions', filled the air with their music as they focused on bringing a little feeling of 'home' to the troops. The Air National Guard band from Milford, Mass., is

  • Afghans ride to enforce rules

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Aug. 17, 2010) - They don't have cool sunglasses, jeans, leather jackets or packs of smokes rolled in the sleeves of their white t-shirts, but none of them claim to be James Dean anyway.However, thanks to the Kentucky National Guard Agribusiness Development Team, they

  • Afghans Reconstruct Destroyed Road

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Aug. 14, 2010) - Civil engineers and civil affairs members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir traveled to Pesgaran Village in the Dara District Aug. 14 to assess progress on construction of a road affected by heavy rainfall earlier in the month.The heavy rain

  • Afghans learning to fight without deadly force

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Aug. 14, 2010) - Afghan National Police officers began learning U.S. Army Combatives techniques Aug. 14, so they can teach the skill to other ANP officers in each of the seven districts in the Panjshir Province, Afghanistan.U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Cornell, a

  • New cargo handling ramp opens at Bagram Airfield

    A new cargo handling ramp opened for business today here during a ceremony presided over by Brig. Gen. Jack L. Briggs II, the commander of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing.This U.S. Air Forces Central-funded $8.8 million project, measuring about 90,000 square feet, increases the storage space and

  • Afghan entrepreneurs looking for investors

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Aug. 10, 2010) - Two Panjshir Province entrepreneurs are looking for investors to get into the marble business for huge returns on what they call a "sure thing."Ghulam Nabi Yaqoobi, director of the Ghulam Nabi Yaqoobi Construction and Road Construction Company, and

  • Justice Center Opens in Paryan District

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Aug. 2, 2010) - A new justice center opened in Panjshir Province's most northern district during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 2.Panjshir Deputy Gov. Abdul Rahman Kabiri, senators, various district governors, Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir members and Afghan

  • Regional CDC Working for People of Afghanistan

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (July 26, 2010) - Members of the Panjshir Province Regional Community Development Council, the Bazarak mayor, representatives from the International City Managers Association and Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir Civil Affairs Soldiers met in the Bazarak District

  • Afghan Women Plan for Future

    PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir met with Annisa Gul, District Development Assembly for women's affairs in the Paryan District, to discuss various projects and make a humanitarian assistance drop July 24.The women's affairs representative from the