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  • Bagram aircrews drop treats to Soldiers on Fourth of July

    Aircrews from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped something special on the Fourth of July for Soldiers at some of the most remote forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan. The 230th birthday of the United States proved to be another hot, dusty day here, but thanks to the C-130

  • Young Afghan heart patient returns home

    An Air Force C-17 cargo plane carried a young boy here recovering from desperately needed heart surgery who will know that his future was made possible by the efforts of the U.S. military. Most aircraft arriving here bring the supplies needed to sustain U.S. military forces endeavoring to ensure a

  • Shutol district dedicates new micro-hydro plant , government center

    Governor Haji Bahlol and provincial leaders dedicated a new micro-hydro power station and governance facility at separate ceremonies in the Shutol District here June 28. The two projects, which have an important link, are provincial reconstruction team initiatives undertaken at the request of the

  • Four Airmen find home at international base

    When Staff Sgt. Sean Schuster found out he was deploying here from MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., he was told he'd be working with three other Airmen in the petroleum, oil and lubrication shop. What he didn't know was that he and the other Airmen would be the only American military presence at this

  • Engineers work together to solve problems at Kandahar

    Airmen deployed all over the world overcome obstacles every day in order to get the mission done. Here in Southwest Afghanistan, two of those Airmen collaborated to build antennas for radio communications between pilots and a replacement air traffic control facility built here to improve airfield

  • Air Force aids Army medevacs

    Last year, the Army asked the Air Force for help with its medevac operation. Called an in-lieu-of mission, the Air Force agreed to assist and tasked Master Sgt. Scott Currin to form the first team of Air Force enlisted aerospace evacuation technicians, or flight medics, as they like to call

  • Air Force turns to old standby for Army re-supply

    The U.S. military has turned to an old workhorse as the delivery method for supplies and humanitarian cargo needed to sustain Operation Enduring Freedom. The C-130 Hercules has been around, in one form or another, since the 1950s. It is the aircraft of choice for inter-theater airlift in