Afghan, US female paratroopers share bond across cultures

U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Jennifer Lane, a native of Ruby, N.Y., visits with Afghan Air Force Brig. Gen. Khatool Mohammadzai, between seminars of a gender conference held at the Kabul International Airport on April 23. Lane is a telecommunications operations chief and first sergeant of a signal company providing tactical communications for the Fort Bragg-based XVIII Airborne Corps. Mohammadzai and Lane are both paratroopers, and Mohammadzai is not only the first female paratrooper in the Afghan armed forces, with more than 500 jumps, but the first Afghan female to become a general. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. John Zumer, IJC PAO)