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Article: AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY AIR CORPS INCREASES CAPABILITY

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September 15, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Information Service issued the following press release:

The Afghan National Army Air Corps has made big strides, with 27 operational aircraft - three times the number it had a year ago -flying 350 percent more missions in direct support of Afghan security forces, a senior military official reported today.

Air Force Maj. Gen. Jay Lindell, commander of the Combined Air Corps Transition Force in Afghanistan, told Pentagon reporters via teleconference from the Afghan capital of Kabul that the Afghan air corps is developing capabilities needed to assume missions currently carried out by coalition forces.

The air corps is taking on more of these ...

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