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Article: AIRPOWER INTEGRAL TO KAJAKI DAM TURBINE DELIVERY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 25, 2008
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The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release:
By Lt. Col. Gregg BottemillerAir Forces Central Public Affairs
Coalition airpower focused on a critical part of southern Afghanistan from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2 to protect more than 4,000 ground forces and to support the delivery of an electric turbine for the 30-year-old hydroelectric Kajaki Dam in the Helmand Province.
The new turbine, part of a U.S.-funded project, will provide up to 6 percent of the country's power once installed.
Coalition troops from England, Canada, Denmark, Australia, Afghanistan and the United States continuously aided the 100-vehicle convoy more than 100 miles from Kandahar to the dam site, north of Lashkar Gar. ...