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  • Senior Airman Melissa Laclair helps unload humanitarian supplies at the Afghanistan National Police Station in the Parandae District on Saturday, July 8. Airman Laclair is assigned to the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team. The team, with help from the Army's 405th Civil Affairs Battalion, delivered more than three tons of food to 240 families, who are beginning to run out of food from last year's harvest. Airman Laclair is deployed from Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Cumper)

    Afghanistan reconstruction

  • A C-17 Globemaster III from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., takes off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 4, while a C-130 Hercules from the Alaska Air National Guard waits to take the runway. Strategic and tactical airlift are the backbone of the logistics efforts for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    Airlift at Bagram

  • Staff Sgt. Anthony Redding loads a special container delivery system bundle on a C-130 Hercules on Tuesday, July 4, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Aircrews from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron dropped bundles of treats to Soldiers at forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan in honor of America's 230th birthday. The bundles contained items such as soda, beef jerky, CDs and DVDs requested by Soldiers to enhance morale. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    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 Hercules crews and Army senior leaders from the
  • U.S. Air Force and Army medical personnel carry 8-year-old Omar Muhammad from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster July 2 after an Air Force aircrew flew him from America where the boy underwent life-saving heart surgery. U.S. Army doctors at Forward Operating Base Salerno diagnosed the boy and arranged for his surgery in the U.S. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    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 decent future for Afghanistan, but on July 2 an Air
  • The Shutol micro-hydropower plant is one of two projects undertaken by the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team at the request of the province governor. It was dedicated Wednesday, June 28. (Courtesy photo/Shahla Hammond)

    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 governor. The governor is the lead agent for all
  • Staff Sgt. William Cook checks a fuel sample he has collected from an R-22 fuel pumping unit at Chaghcharan Forward-Operating Base, Afghanistan, to make sure it has the proper color, clarity, as well as free of water and particulates. Sergeant Cook is one of four Airmen deployed to Chaghcharan, which is run by the Lithuanian military and conducts International Security and Assistance Force missions from the base. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    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 forward-operating base run by the Lithuanian
  • Master Sgt. Frank Swygert cuts a piece of angle iron using an acetylene torch at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. The angle iron will be used as a brace for radio antennas at a new air traffic control facility. Sergeant Swygert overcame a shortage of parts to construct mounts for the antennas. He is deployed to Kandahar from Dover Air Force Base, Del. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    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 and flight operations. When members of the 215th
  • Tech. Sgt. Mark De Corte is an aerospace evacuation technician with the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The tan footprints on the HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter represent each of the saves the squadron has made. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Ferguson)

    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 themselves. Sergeant Currin, a senior flight medic at the
  • Capt. Andrew Sides scans for another aircraft while flying a C-130 Hercules on a combat mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Monday, June 19. Captain Sides is a pilot deployed to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, from the Delaware Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    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 Afghanistan, where the U.S. Army is conducting operations
  • Saeed explains the components of an electrical box to Afghan students at the Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team's Trade School on Monday, June 12. The instructors teach local Afghans skills they can use to get jobs and help rebuild their country. Saeed is a former plumbing and carpentry trade school student who returned eight months ago to teach at the school. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Ferguson)

    Airmen in Qalat teach skills to Afghans to help re-build country

    Saeed graduated from a Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team trade school eight months ago after learning carpentry and plumbing skills. Recently, the PRT trade school's mission of teaching life skills to the people of Afghanistan compelled Saeed to return to the school, not as a student, but as a teacher of an electrical installation class. "I'm
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