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Stars and Stripes
April 26, 2018
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — On a recent evening at the U.S.'s largest base in Afghanistan, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter landed with distant mountains in front of it and something unusual behind it: the headquarters of the Air Force's 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. The CH-47 is an Army ...
The Fort Campbell Courier
April 19, 2018
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – The 101st Airborne Division colors unfurled Sunday at Bagram Airfield during a ceremony that marked the beginning of the unit's fourth deployment to Afghanistan in the last decade. Major Gen. Andrew P. Poppas, commanding general of 101st Abn. Div. and Fort ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
April 19, 2018
Every Friday at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, the dining facility serves surf and turf. It might not be the best quality steak or lobster, but who else gets steak and lobster on deployments!? Between steak and lobster dinners, the daily dishes are pretty up to par, taste-wise. There's definitely no carrot pound ...
Agenda.ge
April 15, 2018
Georgian troops serving in the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan are honing their skills by training Afghan servicemen in practical and theoretical action. Georgian soldiers of the 31st battalion of the III Infantry Brigade have conducted a coordinative-situational training at the Bagram Air ...
Stars and Stripes
April 12, 2018
U.S. forces are stationed at Bagram. Bagram District Gov. Abdul Shukoor Qudusi says the driver was wounded in the explosion late Wednesday night, which set several shops in the area on fire. There were no injuries at the base, which is heavily fortified. No one has yet taken responsibility for the bombing.
MENAFN.COM
April 12, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): Dozens of shops were damaged when a magnetic bomb hit a fuel tanker in front of the Bagram airbase in central Parwan province, an official said on Thursday. The shops caught fire after the explosion of the sticky bomb attached to the oil tanker, ...
Sacramento Bee
April 12, 2018
The Latest on a Taliban attack in Afghanistan (all times local):. 5:40 p.m.. A district governor in Afghanistan's Parwan province says a sticky bomb has destroyed an oil tanker outside the Bagram military base north of the Afghan capital Kabul. U.S. forces are stationed at Bagram.
The Drive
April 6, 2018
Even beyond Bagram's immediate vicinity, much of Afghanistan is equally mountainous and can experience high temperatures in the summer months. It can be a foreboding region for helicopter operations, even though the lack of roads and canals down below often make it the most rapid and effective ...
DefenseNews.com
April 4, 2018
A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Fighter Wing, takes-off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/U.S. Air Force). WASHINGTON — The State Department on Wednesday approved two major sales of aircraft to foreign militaries, including F-16s ...
Aerotech News (blog)
April 1, 2018
“So you walk the line today in Bagram [Afghanistan], you walk the line in Kunsan [South Korea], you walk the line where we have invested the people, parts — all the things that are required to continue engaging in an active campaign like in Bagram or supporting the pressure campaign in Kunsan, you will ...
The National
March 25, 2018
General John Nicholson, who leads US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, speaks to reporters at Bagram Air Base, about 60km north of the Afghan capital Kabul. Thomas Watkins / AFP. Russia has rejected comments by NATO's top commander in Afghanistan that it has been supporting and even supplying ...
Stars and Stripes
March 24, 2018
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Sounds of clapping, singing and dancing mixed with whistles and referee shouts in a dusty corner of the U.S.'s largest military base in Afghanistan on Friday as the Bagram World Cup continued for another week. The soccer tournament — modeled on the International ...
AirForceTimes.com
March 20, 2018
Master Sgt. Nicholas Kollett, first sergeant for the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, folds an Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern uniform at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The Air Force could start switching to the Army's Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform as early as this ...
NWAOnline
March 15, 2018
John Nicholson, the top American commander in Afghanistan, speaks to reporters Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at Bagram air base north of Kabul, ... BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- The Afghan capital is now the main focus of the anti-Taliban fight, with U.S. special forces conducting raids in the ...
Boston Herald
March 14, 2018
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — The Afghan capital is now the main focus of the anti-Taliban fight, with U.S. special forces conducting raids in the sprawling city and additional American military advisers arriving to help beleaguered local police, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
Department of Defense
March 9, 2018
Air Force pararescuemen, assigned to the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, exit an Army Ch-47 Chinook helicopter at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2018. The pararescuemen primarily fly their missions on Army CH-47F Chinooks. Air Force photo by Tech.
Long War Journal
March 7, 2018
Harrach carried out the attack on Bagram along with the Taliban. One of the multitude of documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, detailed Harrach's role and importance to al Qaeda as well as his cooperation with the Taliban's Haqqani Network during ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
March 1, 2018
The means of transportation for moving a troop to Bagram AB is dependent on where they were injured. If the service member is injured just outside of base, then a Humvee is the obvious choice. If personnel are wounded at a Forward Operating Base, a Huey dust-off mission will be spun up to retrieve ...
ArmyTimes.com
March 1, 2018
An Army combat medics trains at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in February. The Army is piloting a new expeditionary combat course inspired by special operations casualty care. (Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/Air Force). For the past two decades, Army combat medics have been training to keep injured soldiers ...
Department of Defense
February 28, 2018
Deployments are part of the job description for members of the armed forces, but they can still cause a lot of stress in life. Senior Airman Astrid Hernandez, 455th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron contracting officer representative, lays flooring. Air Force Senior Airman Astrid Hernandez, a contracting ...
Pakistan Today
February 22, 2018
In his ministerial response to a point of public importance regarding media reports that some 200 Pakistanis had been detained in Bagram prison and most of them had undergone their sentence but still detained in the jail, the minister said no demand came from any quarters in Pakistan. He said Pakistan ...
Xinhua
February 21, 2018
The victims were serving in neighboring Kapisa province but they were travelling in a vehicle to their homes in Parwan before coming under attack by gunmen in Bagram district of the province, according to the report. One of the victims named Gulab Din was a senior provincial intelligence official in Kapisa, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 14, 2018
... your undiscerning authorities for the war in Afghanistan, the reality is that tens of thousands of helpless Afghans including women and children were martyred by your forces, hundreds of thousands were injured and thousands more were incarcerated in Guantanamo, Bagram and various other secret jails ...
Stars and Stripes
February 14, 2018
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Driving around the U.S.'s largest military base in Afghanistan with Paul Edlund feels like an Alfred Hitchcock film: You're constantly on the lookout for birds. The one-time Air Force munitions airman is now a wildlife biologist with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, ...
KTUU.com
February 8, 2018
Brian Beckno, NATO Resolute Support said to me minutes after arriving at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. At the time, while I had a few ideas, I really didn't know what to expect from my first trip to a war zone. Two weeks later, I know those words he spoke, for better and worse, were 100 percent the truth.
Department of Defense
February 8, 2018
Crews offload equipment from a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 25, 2018. The C-17 transported troops and equipment to forward operating locations throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in support of ...
Stars and Stripes
February 8, 2018
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Medical officials in Afghanistan are preparing for more casualties as the U.S. military sends more troops close to the front lines to advise government forces in their fight against militants and terrorists. The Craig Joint Theater Hospital here has had what officials believe to ...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
December 31, 1999
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - The 101st Airborne Division colors unfurled at Bagram Airfield, April 15, during a ceremony that marked the beginning of the unit's fourth deployment to Afghanistan in the last decade. Maj. Gen. Andrew Poppas, 101st commander, and Command Sgt. Maj. Todd Sims ...
AirForceTimes.com
December 31, 1999
So you walk the line today at Bagram [Air Base in Afghanistan], you walk the line today at Kunsan [Air Base in South Korea], you walk the line where we have invested both the people, the parts, all the things that are required to continue engaging in an active campaign at Bagram, or supporting the pressure ...
Sumter Item
December 31, 1999
"Mach," 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter pilot, signals from his aircraft prior to taking off Feb. 28 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Reaching the 1,000-hour mark as a fighter pilot represents a significant career accomplishment. Even more so for "Mach" because all of his ...
Pactrick Air Force Base
December 31, 1999
“So you walk the line today in Bagram [Afghanistan], you walk the line in Kunsan [South Korea], you walk the line where we have invested the people, parts -- all the things that are required to continue engaging in an active campaign like in Bagram or supporting the pressure campaign in Kunsan, you will ...
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