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Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using

Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using

Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using signaling devices. They will begin teaching this life saving skill to Afghan Afghan Air Force pilots so they know how to signal for rescue.

An Afghan Air Force graduate of the Radio Maintenance

An Afghan Air Force graduate of the Radio Maintenance

An Afghan Air Force graduate of the Radio Maintenance Level II course receives his certificate during a graduation ceremony Nov. 14. The student is one of the original five AAF airmen to complete the course. (P... More

Afghan Air Force Airmen and civilian contractors perform

Afghan Air Force Airmen and civilian contractors perform

Afghan Air Force Airmen and civilian contractors perform Personnel Accountability Inventory incorporating a Biometrics component to strengthen force accountability and enhance force protection for AAF and coali... More

Royal Air Force officer Lee Southward advises an Afghan

Royal Air Force officer Lee Southward advises an Afghan

Royal Air Force officer Lee Southward advises an Afghan Air Force pilot candidate in the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan's English Immersion "Thunder Lab" Dec. 11. As part of improving their English the A... More

Afghan Air Force Musa Qal’ah Youth Shura

Afghan Air Force Musa Qal’ah Youth Shura

Major Azizullah (surrounded by youth), the Afghan Air Force 379th Rotary Wing Squadron Operation Officer, answers question on becoming an AAF pilot to 40 young men on Dec 20.

Italian air force service members with NATO Training

Italian air force service members with NATO Training

Italian air force service members with NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan/ 838th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group have a meeting with Afghan Air Force members about the need to document requests that are made ... More

Four new MD-530 Cayuse Warrior helicopters arrived

Four new MD-530 Cayuse Warrior helicopters arrived

Four new MD-530 Cayuse Warrior helicopters arrived at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2016, via a C-17 Globemaster III. The four helicopters, scheduled to be the final four delivered t... More

An Afghan Air Force C-208 pilot, conducts a preflight

An Afghan Air Force C-208 pilot, conducts a preflight

An Afghan Air Force C-208 pilot, conducts a preflight briefing with Maj Randy Stubbs, Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air, 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron C-208 pilot advisor, at Kabul Air Wing, Afghani... More

An Mi-17 is pulled into a hanger at Kabul International

An Mi-17 is pulled into a hanger at Kabul International

An Mi-17 is pulled into a hanger at Kabul International Airport, Jan. 16, as part of the first local overhaul of an Afghan air force aircraft.

Afghan Air Force airmen and civilian contractors perform

Afghan Air Force airmen and civilian contractors perform

Afghan Air Force airmen and civilian contractors perform Personnel Accountability Inventory incorporating a Biometrics component to strengthen force accountability and enhance force protection for AAF and Coali... More

Guest speaker, Kazma Sarwi, an Afghan Instructor, speaks

Guest speaker, Kazma Sarwi, an Afghan Instructor, speaks

Guest speaker, Kazma Sarwi, an Afghan Instructor, speaks at a graduation of 30 Afghan Air Force members from 4 different courses at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the Afghan Air Force's "BIg Air School" in Kabul, Afghani... More

Afghan National Army special forces commandos move

Afghan National Army special forces commandos move

Afghan National Army special forces commandos move towards enemy combatants during a joint training exercise between Afghan air force and SF commandos held outside of Kabul March 5. The exercise was the first j... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Justin Trumpower, a flight

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Justin Trumpower, a flight

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Justin Trumpower, a flight engineer with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, looks out over Lake Surubi, Afghanistan, while flying in an Afghan air force Mi-17 helicopter, O... More

Master Sgt. Jordan Friedman, a flight engineer with

Master Sgt. Jordan Friedman, a flight engineer with

Master Sgt. Jordan Friedman, a flight engineer with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, tightens a panel of an Afghan air force Mi-17 helicopter prior to a supply flight over northern Afghanistan, De... More

Airmen from the U.S. and Afghan air force at the 438th

Airmen from the U.S. and Afghan air force at the 438th

Airmen from the U.S. and Afghan air force at the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, play football at Kabul International Airport, Sept. 29, 2011. Coalition airmen here work daily to set the conditions for a professi... More

Afghan air force airman perform morning drill practice

Afghan air force airman perform morning drill practice

Afghan air force airman perform morning drill practice before the start of the school day at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the AAF’s “Big Air School,” on the AAF base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2011. New airmen at... More

Afghan air force and U.S. Air Force personal load bags

Afghan air force and U.S. Air Force personal load bags

Afghan air force and U.S. Air Force personal load bags of flour onto an Afghan air force Mi-17 helicopter in preparation for a combat resupply mission at Forward Operating Base Fenty, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oc... More

Afghan air force member Semen Ferozi performs dead-lift

Afghan air force member Semen Ferozi performs dead-lift

Afghan air force member Semen Ferozi performs dead-lift exercises during a workout session at Kabul International Airport, Jan. 18, 2012. U.S. Air Force Capt. Vanessa Vanden Bout, a 29-year-old from Vermilion, ... More

Afghan Air Force medics listen to Master Sgt. Ruth

Afghan Air Force medics listen to Master Sgt. Ruth

Afghan Air Force medics listen to Master Sgt. Ruth Celestine, Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air medical advisor, as she talks about the importance of casualty evacuation procedures with Afghan Air Force medics,... More

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air) flew a three ship MD-530 Cayuse Warrior training mission Aug. 25, 2016. The group left Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, and fl... More

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

American advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air) flew a three ship MD-530 Cayuse Warrior training mission Aug. 25, 2016. The group left Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, and fl... More

Afghan air force security forces soldier Said Ahmad

Afghan air force security forces soldier Said Ahmad

Afghan air force security forces soldier Said Ahmad yells out commands to U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brandon Warren to left up his blouse during a field training exercise, Oct. 18, 2012 at Shindand Air Base, ... More

Command Chief Master Sgt. Richard Parsons, U.S. Air

Command Chief Master Sgt. Richard Parsons, U.S. Air

Command Chief Master Sgt. Richard Parsons, U.S. Air Forces Central, speaks to advisers from the Afghan Air Force "Big Air School" also known as Pohantoon-e-Hawaye, during his tour of NATO Air Training-Afghanist... More

Airmen assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary wing

Airmen assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary wing

Airmen assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary wing and Afghan Air Force work side-by-side here July 5 loading sandbags at Kabul International Airport. The deployed airmen are responsible for setting the condit... More

Force management Airmen shape Afghan Air Force for fighting season 2016

Force management Airmen shape Afghan Air Force for fighting season 201...

Master Sgts. Neal Harris and Andrea Brown, Train, Advise, Assist Command – Air (TAAC-Air) force management advisors, meet with their Afghan Air Force counterpart Sept. 28, 2015, to discuss the AAF’s unit mannin... More

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addresses a crowd of

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addresses a crowd of

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addresses a crowd of Afghan national army, Afghan air force and coalition partners at the re-birth of the Afghan air force flyover event at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabu... More

Four A-29 Super Tucanos arrive at Kabul Air Wing, Kabul,

Four A-29 Super Tucanos arrive at Kabul Air Wing, Kabul,

Four A-29 Super Tucanos arrive at Kabul Air Wing, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 20, 2017, before the beginning of the 2017 fighting season. The aircraft will bolster the Afghan Air Force's inventory from eight to 1... More

Members of the Afghan Air Force graduate from Mi-17

Members of the Afghan Air Force graduate from Mi-17

Members of the Afghan Air Force graduate from Mi-17 Flight Engineer and Non-Commissioned Officer Orientation courses.

Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing salute

Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing salute

Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing salute during an awards ceremony at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2011. Capt. Michael Bradley, a maintenance adviser from the 438th Air E... More

Afghan Air Force security forces members line up in

Afghan Air Force security forces members line up in

Afghan Air Force security forces members line up in formation for accountability before they headed to the firing range for training, Oct. 3, 2012, at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. The training was ... More

Afghan Air Force airmen work on the rotor of an Mi-17

Afghan Air Force airmen work on the rotor of an Mi-17

Afghan Air Force airmen work on the rotor of an Mi-17 helicopter at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan Sept. 24.

Afghan military police practice on each other doing

Afghan military police practice on each other doing

Afghan military police practice on each other doing hands-on searching and handcuffing techniques Aug. 12, 2015, at the Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan. This third and last phase of training was presented by Train,... More

Brig. Gen. Christopher Craige, commanding general of

Brig. Gen. Christopher Craige, commanding general of

Brig. Gen. Christopher Craige, commanding general of Train, Advise, Assist Command - Air (TAAC-Air), talks to several Afghan guests at an officer candidate school training ceremony at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee (PeH),... More

Air Force lieutenants graduate from their first professional

Air Force lieutenants graduate from their first professional

Air Force lieutenants graduate from their first professional military course at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee present their graduation certificates from the Air Orientation Course. Graduation from this course is the fema... More

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bryan Wood, 538th Air Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bryan Wood, 538th Air Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bryan Wood, 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, incoming commander, speaks to airmen of the 538th AEAS during a change of command ceremony at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, A... More

U.S. Air Force airmen from the 455th Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force airmen from the 455th Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, prepare an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, for takeoff at Kabul... More

Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command,

Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command,

Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, visits Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air February 9, 2018, Kabul, Afghanistan. During the visit, General Holmes and Chief Master Sgt. Frank Batten, command chi... More

An Afghan Air Force A-29 taxis to a parking spot March

An Afghan Air Force A-29 taxis to a parking spot March

An Afghan Air Force A-29 taxis to a parking spot March 6, 2018, Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan. The Pilots of the A-29 have proven their capability employing laser guided munitions during training scenarios. (U.S.... More

An Airman helps turn an MD-530 to prepare it for off

An Airman helps turn an MD-530 to prepare it for off

An Airman helps turn an MD-530 to prepare it for off loading on to a K-Loader. This is one of six aircraft that arrived in Kabul March 17, 2015. These six aircraft are the first up armored MD-530s to arrive in ... More

Brig. Gen. Tim Ray, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing Commander,

Brig. Gen. Tim Ray, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing Commander,

Brig. Gen. Tim Ray, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing Commander, speaks to airmen of the 438th AEW during a change of command ceremony at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2011. Ray took ove... More

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018)

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018)

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018) The 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Group structure team works on expanding the parking ramp, September 6, 2018, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. Once comple... More

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an aerial gunner with

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an aerial gunner with

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an aerial gunner with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, overlooks the Kabul International Airport flightline after completing a flight between Jalalabad and Kabul, A... More

Members of the Afghan air force secure an engine of

Members of the Afghan air force secure an engine of

Members of the Afghan air force secure an engine of an AAF C-27 Spartan to an engine stand in the maintenance hangar at Kabul International Airport, Kabul Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2011.

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David Kelch checks

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David Kelch checks

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David Kelch checks out the firing range before weapons training, Oct. 3, 2012, at Kabul Military Training Center, Afghanistan. Kelch is the superintendent of the 438th Air Exped... More

Afghan Air Force maintainers inspect bomb components

Afghan Air Force maintainers inspect bomb components

Afghan Air Force maintainers inspect bomb components March 7, 2018, Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan. Before parts are able to be used, AAF maintainers inspect each of them for flaws or defects. (U.S. Air Force phot... More

U.S. Air Force Capts. Mike Ruehs, left, and Dale Zimmerman,

U.S. Air Force Capts. Mike Ruehs, left, and Dale Zimmerman,

U.S. Air Force Capts. Mike Ruehs, left, and Dale Zimmerman, right, looks over maintenance forms for a C-27 Spartan before a training flight, Oct. 1, 2012 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Ruehs and Z... More

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad tells

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad tells

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad tells the pilot to start engines while on fire guard before a training flight, Oct. 23, 2012 at Kabul International Airport. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Quint... More

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad, background,

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad, background,

Afghan air force crew chief Sgt. Lull Mohammad, background, reloads his M240 machine gun, while U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Will Stimpson secures ammo cans to a Mi-17 helicopter Oct. 23, 2012 at Hunter Army Airfi... More

Maj. Patrick Stovall, Thunder Lab flight simulator

Maj. Patrick Stovall, Thunder Lab flight simulator

Maj. Patrick Stovall, Thunder Lab flight simulator instructor, gives Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford a tour of the flight simulator room during Gen. Shackelford's tour of the Afghan Air Force English immersion lab kn... More

Afghan Air Force 1st LTs Ahmad Fawad Haidari and Abdul

Afghan Air Force 1st LTs Ahmad Fawad Haidari and Abdul

Afghan Air Force 1st LTs Ahmad Fawad Haidari and Abdul Saboor Amin pose for a photgraph infront of the Mi-17 helicopter they will use during a training mission focusing on traffic patterns at the Afghan Air For... More

Afghan firefighters from the Afghan Air Force spray

Afghan firefighters from the Afghan Air Force spray

Afghan firefighters from the Afghan Air Force spray down an C-27 during a training exercise at the Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2, 2011. Coalition forces work the Afghan Air Force fire... More

C-27 Spartan tails at Night, operation Enduring Freedom

C-27 Spartan tails at Night, operation Enduring Freedom

Afghan air force C-27 Spartan aircraft sit on the ramp at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2011.

Trucks carrying cargo trailers line up to have supplies

Trucks carrying cargo trailers line up to have supplies

Trucks carrying cargo trailers line up to have supplies taken off at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2011. The trucks were making a routine delivery to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing.

Afghan air force females receive instructions prior

Afghan air force females receive instructions prior

Afghan air force females receive instructions prior to a workout session at Kabul International Airport, Jan. 18, 2012. U.S. Air Force Capt. Vanessa Vanden Bout, a 29-year-old Force Support Squadron adviser wit... More

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO JFC-Brunssum (right), talks U.S. Air Force Capt. Snyder (left), a C-208 pilot and advisor for the Afghan air force, during a visit to AAF‬ and Train, Advise, ... More

Tech. Sgt. Toron Bordain, 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory

Tech. Sgt. Toron Bordain, 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory

Tech. Sgt. Toron Bordain, 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, C-130 maintenance advisor, works with his Afghan Air Force counterparts to remove an engine panel for training at Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan... More

Members of the AAF and NATO load boxes of election

Members of the AAF and NATO load boxes of election

Members of the AAF and NATO load boxes of election ballots on the AAF Mi-17 during the first night operations mission, Sept. 28.

U.S. Air Force airmen, assigned to the 438th Air

U.S. Air Force airmen, assigned to the 438th Air

U.S. Air Force airmen, assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, raise flags Sept. 11, 2011 at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. Security forces airmen and volunteers raised flags throughout ... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tom Liscomb preflights the

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tom Liscomb preflights the

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tom Liscomb preflights the tail of an Mi-17 helicopter before a training flight, Oct. 30, 2012, at the Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Liscomb is an advisor flight engineer d... More

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Shoaib Stanikzai, Afghan Air Force

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Shoaib Stanikzai, Afghan Air Force

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Shoaib Stanikzai, Afghan Air Force commander, speaks to students and leaders before 112 AAF students graduate from their year-long officer candidate school training at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee (P... More

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO Air Training Command – Afghanistan performed multiple missions southeast of Kabul when they delivered 500 radios to Ghazni, moved 100 Afghan National Army ... More

Nov. 29, 17 members of the Afghan air force and Afghan

Nov. 29, 17 members of the Afghan air force and Afghan

Nov. 29, 17 members of the Afghan air force and Afghan National Army, both officer and enlisted, graduated from the firefighting course at Pohantoon-e Hawayee, the Afghan air force's "Big Air School," in Kabul,... More

NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan service members

NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan service members

NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan service members walk to their MRAP-all terrain vehicle during an M-ATV course at the Afghan Air Force Base in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Members of the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan

Members of the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan

Members of the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan and ISAF Joint Command run the annual Fort Worth Cowtown race, one of the largest multi-event road races in the United States, at the Kabul International Air... More

Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Morford, flying crew chief

Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Morford, flying crew chief

Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Morford, flying crew chief advisor, stationed out of Davis Monthan Air Force Base, sits with the four students of the flying air crew chiefs during a brief of the upcoming flight missi... More

Lt. Col Daryl Sassaman and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew

Lt. Col Daryl Sassaman and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew

Lt. Col Daryl Sassaman and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Pescador, the current and next 438th Air Expeditionary Wing Thunder Lab officers-in-charge, cuts a framing stud during the building of a classroom at Shind... More

Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using

Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using

Afghan Air Force Life Support Personnel practice using signaling devices. They will begin teaching this life saving skill to Afghan Afghan Air Force pilots so they know how to signal for rescue.

NATO advisers with the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing's

NATO advisers with the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing's

NATO advisers with the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing's Thunder Lab immersion training center, sheet walls during the building of a classroom at Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan, March 21, 2012. The advisers helped... More

An U.S. Air Force airman hands a piece of candy to

An U.S. Air Force airman hands a piece of candy to

An U.S. Air Force airman hands a piece of candy to an Afghan child during a humanitarian site-survey mission directly outside of Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan, March 22, 2012. The advisors’ focus is the rerout... More

Army Pathfinders of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th

Army Pathfinders of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th

Army Pathfinders of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Drum, N.Y., disassemble a Afghan Air Force Mi-17 helicopter in the Nuristan province, Afghanistan. The Pathfinders are tasked t... More

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018)

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018)

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (September 6, 2018) a blade cuts through a runway as water is used to cool it during renovation operations, September 6, 2018, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The construction i... More

Afghan Air Force airman Abdul Gahar, a crew chief,

Afghan Air Force airman Abdul Gahar, a crew chief,

Afghan Air Force airman Abdul Gahar, a crew chief, refuels an Afghan Air Force Mi-17 helicopter at Forward Operating Base Fenty, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 8. The helicopter was refueling after flying personn... More

Afghan Air Force Lt. Mohammed Ware Alavi gets thrown

Afghan Air Force Lt. Mohammed Ware Alavi gets thrown

Afghan Air Force Lt. Mohammed Ware Alavi gets thrown into a pool by his fellow student pilots after completing his first MD-530 helicopter solo flight, Oct. 16, 2012, at Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan. (U.S. Ai... More

(Right) Col. Robert Epstein, Train, Advise, Assist

(Right) Col. Robert Epstein, Train, Advise, Assist

(Right) Col. Robert Epstein, Train, Advise, Assist Command – Air (TAAC-Air) director of staff, and (left) U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Justin Mark, 442nd Engineer Company/TAAC-Air personal security detail shift lead, e... More

An Afghan Air Force MD-530 maintainer reassembles a

An Afghan Air Force MD-530 maintainer reassembles a

An Afghan Air Force MD-530 maintainer reassembles a component in an MD-530 February 14, 2018, at Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan. The AAF will add 30 MD-530 in the coming years as part of the overall AAF modernizat... More

Afghan air force Sgt. Zafar Khan, background, talks

Afghan air force Sgt. Zafar Khan, background, talks

Afghan air force Sgt. Zafar Khan, background, talks with Lt. Abdul Wasi about the first iteration of field training, Oct. 18, 2012 at Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan. This was a culmination exercise of afghan se... More

U.S. Air Force Capt. Mike Ruehs looks over maintenance

U.S. Air Force Capt. Mike Ruehs looks over maintenance

U.S. Air Force Capt. Mike Ruehs looks over maintenance forms for a C-27 Spartan before a training flight, Oct. 1, 2012 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Ruehs is a pilot deployed to the 538th Air Exp... More

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Will Stimpson programs a

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Will Stimpson programs a

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Will Stimpson programs a radio before a training flight, Oct. 23, 2012 at Kabul International Airport. Stimpson is an aerial gunner adviser, deployed to the 438th Air Expeditionary Squ... More

Boys that attend the local boys school near Air Base

Boys that attend the local boys school near Air Base

Boys that attend the local boys school near Air Base Shindand listen to Maj. Gen. Shadzada and the headmaster of the boys school before receiving their new backpacks and school supplies. 2,000 backpacks were de... More

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs,

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs,

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs, tours the Thunder Lab on Kabul International Airport to see first hand the Afghan Air Force pilots to view their living quarters and how they train.

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO

The AAF aircrew and their Croatian advisors from NATO Air Training Command – Afghanistan performed multiple missions southeast of Kabul when they delivered 500 radios to Ghazni, moved 100 Afghan National Army ... More

Afghan National Police troops wade through knee-high

Afghan National Police troops wade through knee-high

Afghan National Police troops wade through knee-high water to reach Mi-17 helicopters that will transport them back to their homes as part of a combat resupply mission in Barge Matal in the northern Kunar Valle... More

Tech. Sgt. Rob Walker, a weapons advisor assigned to

Tech. Sgt. Rob Walker, a weapons advisor assigned to

Tech. Sgt. Rob Walker, a weapons advisor assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, advises several Afghan air force airmen on how to install an M240 gun mount inside the right crew door of a Mi-17 helicopte... More

Afghan National Army and Afghan Air Force vehicle

Afghan National Army and Afghan Air Force vehicle

Afghan National Army and Afghan Air Force vehicle maintainers work a checklist during a training session at Kabul Air Wing Aug. 6, 2015. Train, Advise, Assist Command – Air (TAAC-Air) advisers and contractors w... More

Senior Airmen Jason Blackburn and Chris Wujcik, Train,

Senior Airmen Jason Blackburn and Chris Wujcik, Train,

Senior Airmen Jason Blackburn and Chris Wujcik, Train, Advise, Assist Command –Air (TAAC-Air) Guardian Angels, walk the perimeter of a hangar performing their G.A. duties at Forward Operating Base Oqab, Afghani... More

Capt. Carri Salas from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

Capt. Carri Salas from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

Capt. Carri Salas from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air) speaks to guests at the Afghan air force’s International Women’s Day conference March 6, 2016, at Kabul Air Wing, Kabul, Afghanistan. Approxim... More

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs,

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs,

Brig. Gen. Zadalis, IJC director Air Plans/Programs, tours the Thunder Lab on Kabul International Airport to see first hand the Afghan Air Force pilots to view their living quarters and how they train.

A recently repaired Afghan Air Force Mi-17 inside a

A recently repaired Afghan Air Force Mi-17 inside a

A recently repaired Afghan Air Force Mi-17 inside a hangar February 18, 2018, at Kandahar Air Wing, Afghanistan. The Mi-17 is a multi-mission helicopter capable of operations in the rugged mountainous terrain t... More

Afghan Air Force flight medics Sor Gulab and Raheem

Afghan Air Force flight medics Sor Gulab and Raheem

Afghan Air Force flight medics Sor Gulab and Raheem instruct members of the Afghan National Army and AAF on patient loading of the Mi-17 transport helicopter March 5. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo).

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO

Italian army Gen. Salvatore Farina, commander, NATO JFC-Brunssum, learns about the newest Afghan air dorce aircraft, the A-29 Super Tucano, from two of the program’s advisers, during a visit to AAF and Train, A... More

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 355th Expeditionary

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 355th Expeditionary

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 355th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, sits on the runway at Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2011. The F-15E had to make a... More

Two Afghan Air Force Mi-17s fly over Kabul Afghanistan

Two Afghan Air Force Mi-17s fly over Kabul Afghanistan

Two Afghan Air Force Mi-17s fly over Kabul Afghanistan between the Kabul Wing and ISAF headquarters Dec. 29, 2014.

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an Mi-17 helicopter

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an Mi-17 helicopter

Senior Master Sgt. Todd Peplow, an Mi-17 helicopter gunner from the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, waits as injured villagers are carried off his Mi-17 helicopter to awaiting ambulances at Fayzabad,... More

The Afghan National Army "medic" patch on the sleeve

The Afghan National Army "medic" patch on the sleeve

The Afghan National Army "medic" patch on the sleeve of an ANA flight medic's shoulder at Hamid Karzai International Airport, July 9, 2015. Afghan flight medics are fully trained on aeromedical evacuation. The ... More

438 Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, Security Forces,

438 Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, Security Forces,

438 Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, Security Forces, airmen discuss routine patrols at the Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2011.

Afghan C-130 maintainers gather around Senior Airman

Afghan C-130 maintainers gather around Senior Airman

Afghan C-130 maintainers gather around Senior Airman Irwin Rodriguez, Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air fixed wing adviser, to learn the proper way to connect a tow bar to a C-130. Afghans are now participating... More

Master Sgt. Ruth Celestine, Train, Advise, Assist

Master Sgt. Ruth Celestine, Train, Advise, Assist

Master Sgt. Ruth Celestine, Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air medical advisor, discusses how to transition from a four-person litter carry to a two-person carry during an orientation class March 3, 2018, Kabul ... More

The Afghan Air Force accepts delivery of four Mi-17s

The Afghan Air Force accepts delivery of four Mi-17s

The Afghan Air Force accepts delivery of four Mi-17s V5 helicopters at the air force base in Kabul on Dec. 10.

Afghan air force cadets graduated from the officer

Afghan air force cadets graduated from the officer

Afghan air force cadets graduated from the officer candidate school at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, or Air University, during a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 1, 2016. Members of Train, Advise, Assist Command-Ai... More

Afghan Air Force A-29 maintainers manuver a bomb in

Afghan Air Force A-29 maintainers manuver a bomb in

Afghan Air Force A-29 maintainers manuver a bomb in place before attaching it to an A-29 March 6, 2018, Kabul Air Wing, Afghanistan. The process from building to dropping bombs is carried out by the AAF. Afghan... More

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