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  • Behind the scenes, Airmen help to open hospital

    Airmen in a medical mentoring team here have been working hard to ensure the successful opening of an Afghan National Army hospital here for the past several months. The team's original mission was to mentor their ANA counterparts and teach them the necessary medical skills to treat Afghan military

  • Airmen help bring gift of freedom to Afghans

    With the holidays fast approaching, Airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing were recently able to help give the gift of freedom to the citizens of the Afghan village of Musa Qalah. After a week of heavy fighting, Afghan National Security Forces, backed by Coalition forces, were able to defeat the

  • U.S. team opens shelter for Afghan women

    In a first for Kapisa Province, the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team unveiled a new women's shelter during a ribbon-cutting here Dec. 13. Khuweja Abubaker, the Kapisa Provincial Governor, Safura Kohistani, the Director of Women's Affairs for Kapisa Province and members of the PRT were on hand

  • Kandahar Airman keeps eye on mission with eye on ammo

    When the time comes to drop a bomb, air crews need to have confidence that their weapon will work properly, because lives on the ground can be at stake. That's where Tech. Sgt. Erik Ryland, the senior munitions inspector for the 451st Air Expeditionary group here, enters the picture. As a munitions

  • Airmen light up camp with holiday cheer

    Amidst the snow-capped peaks of Afghanistan, thousands of miles from home, Airmen here found a dazzling way to capture a little bit of the holiday season. On Dec. 8, a switch was pulled, illuminating a massive, 30-foot wreath and 1,200 feet of holiday lights draped across the control tower in Camp

  • Airmen help deliver helicopters to Afghan military

    Airmen from Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan Combined Air Power Transition Force helped deliver the first three of 12 refurbished Soviet helicopters Dec. 5 at Kabul, Afghanistan. The Airmen are involved in mentoring the Afghan national army air corps and helped acquire the aircraft,