Bagram team parks 2,000th transient aircraft

Tech. Sgt. Michael Leach and Staff Sgt. Gordon Torrey drive a "follow-me" truck to guide a C-17 to its parking spot at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 2. The C-17, from the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., was the 2,000th transient aircraft to land at Bagram for Air Expeditionary Force 1 and 2, which began May 7, for the transient alert team here. Two-thousand planes equates to an average of almost 17 aircraft transiting Bagram per day. Transient aircraft are those that arrive at Bagram to unload, or load, cargo and passengers to support Operation Enduring Freedom, then take off again and are not assigned here. Sergeant Leach is deployed here from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and Sergeant Torrey is deployed here from Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

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Bagram team parks 2,000th transient aircraft

Maj. Timothy Coger uses paddles to direct a C-17 into its parking spot Sept. 2, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The major is the commander of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron at Bagram. The C-17, from the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., was the 2,000th transient aircraft to land at Bagram for Air Expeditionary Force one and two, which began May 7, for the transient alert team here. Two-thousand planes equates to an average of almost 17 aircraft transiting Bagram per day. Transient aircraft are those that arrive at Bagram to unload, or load, cargo and passengers to support Operation Enduring Freedom, then take off again and are not assigned here. Major Coger is deployed to Bagram from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

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Bagram team parks 2,000th transient aircraft

Maj. Timothy Coger uses paddles to direct a C-17 into its parking spot Sept. 2, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The major is the commander of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron at Bagram. The C-17, from the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., was the 2,000th transient aircraft to land at Bagram for Air Expeditionary Force one and two, which began May 7, for the transient alert team here. Two-thousand planes equates to an average of almost 17 aircraft transiting Bagram per day. Transient aircraft are those that arrive at Bagram to unload, or load, cargo and passengers to support Operation Enduring Freedom, then take off again and are not assigned here. Major Coger is deployed to Bagram from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

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Bagram team parks 2,000th transient aircraft

Members of the transient alert and air terminal operations center pose underneath a C-17, which was the 2,000th transient aircraft to land at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, for the Air Expeditionary Force one and two rotation, which began May 7. Standing, from left, Tech. Sgt. Michael Leach, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron; Senior Airman Logan B. Deal Figueroa, 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron; and Tech. Sgt. Robert Samuels, 455th EMXS. Kneeling, from left, Staff Sgt. Gordon Torrey, 455th EMXS; and Maj. Timothy Coger, 455th EMXS commander. The transient alert and ATOC team at Bagram have averaged almost 17 aircraft per day since May 7. A transient aircraft is one that arrives at Bagram to unload, or load, cargo and passengers to support Operation Enduring Freedom, then takes off again and is not assigned here. (US Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

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Bagram team parks 2,000th transient aircraft

Published Sept. 2, 2006