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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country. Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy in a court filing Monday night that said the Bagram detainees' rights shouldn't extend as far as U.S. courtrooms. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the Justice Department said Bagram detainees should not be given equal...

The Pentagon is to give some 600 prisoners held in the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, the right to challenge their detention, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday. "It's basically a review procedure that ensures people go in front of a panel periodically to give them the opportunity to contest their detention," he told reporters. The inmates would be aided by a uniformed "personal representative" who would "guide them through this administrative process, to help gather witness statements," Whitman added.

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – Two U.S. servicemembers were killed and at least six other personnel were wounded yesterday during an early morning indirect-fire attack on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, officials said. The injured were taken to a U.S. medical facility for treatment. “On behalf of the Combined Joint Task Force 82 team, we offer our condolences and sympathy to the families of our two brave servicemembers,” said Army Maj. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the task force. “Their sacrifice in the name of security and a better way of life for the Afghan people will not be forgotten.” The...

Two US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday in a rare rocket attack on Bagram Air Base, the main US airbase in the country. In addition to the two killed, the attack on Bagram, which lies 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Kabul, left six personnel wounded who were transported to a US medical facility nearby.

Rockets hit U.S. Afghan base, kill 2 troops Rare attack on Bagram north of Kabul wounds six, officials say BREAKING NEWS KABUL - A rare rocket attack on the main U.S. base in Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops and wounded six Americans, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Sunday. U.S. spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker said four military personnel and two civilians were among the wounded. Bagram, which lies 25 miles northeast of Kabul, is surrounded by high mountains and long stretches of open desert from which militants could fire rockets on the base, but such attacks are relatively rare....

Should detainees the United States has shipped to the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have the same constitutional right to challenge their detention in court that prisoners at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba have been given? President Barack Obama didn't answer that question in a May 21 speech outlining his policy for dealing with alleged terrorists. In fact, Obama didn't mention Bagram at all. Yet human rights lawyers say Bagram will play a critical role in shaping the Obama administration’s detainee policy. Obama has promised to close the Guantanamo prison by Jan. 22 of next year, but the Bagram prison...

Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=102695 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Safety and Security Reports > Report Afghanistan: Threats to Bagram Airfield SAFETY & SECURITY South / Central Asia - Afghanistan 27 May 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 27 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: EMBASSY KABUL VICTORY DAY CLOSURE 22 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: KABUL SERENA HOTEL AND VICTORY DAY THREATS 11 Feb 2009 KABUL SUICIDE COMBINED-ARMS ATTACKS 11 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ATTACKS ON AFGHAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS 10 Feb 2009 AFGHANISTAN 2009 CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT U.S. Regional Security Office Kabul released the following...

Helen Thomas: Why is the president blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there... Robert Gibbs: You're incorrect that he taught on constitutional law. You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could...

It's not as if we were abducting Italian grandmas from the village market and accusing them of being terrorists. These detainees have serious links to terrorism and terrorist activities, although you couldn't tell it by Greenwald's article. Greenwald asserts that "these are not prisoners captured in Afghanistan on a battlefield.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled on Thursday that prisoners in the war on terror can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention at a military air base in Afghanistan. U.S. District Judge John Bates turned down the United States' motion to deny the right to three foreign detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in court. But the government had argued that it did not apply to those in Afghanistan.

Fadi Al Maqaleh is one of the many "unlawful enemy combatants" being detained by the U.S. military at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. He seeks to challenge his detention in a U.S. court, but recently last week the Obama administration argued that he cannot. Adopting one of the Bush administration's controversial terrorist detention policies, President Obama's Justice Department told a federal court that it had no power to hear the case. ... Judge Bates and the human rights lobby had good reason to expect a different approach. Last fall, while the Bush administration was defending its terrorist detention policies in court,...

Via the BBC [link at URL]: Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush. Prof Barbara Olshansky, the lead counsel in a challenge on behalf of four Bagram detainees, told the BBC...

Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W. Bush. ...

Just caught the tail end of a breaking report on Fox that President Bush has arrived in Afghanistan after his surprise trip to Iraq.

A U.S. navy patrol plane was destroyed Tuesday when it overshot the runway while landing at a base north of the Afghan capital, but none of the crew was seriously hurt, the U.S. military said.

3/13/2008 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- An Airman's quick action following an explosion of a jet fuel starter Feb. 26 that sent shrapnel across the Bagram Air Base flightline averted a possible explosion of an F-15E Strike Eagle. Staff Sgt. Jonathan Billie was working on the flightline near a fellow Airman prepping an F-15E when the small motor that starts the fighter's engines blew up. The jet fuel starter imploded and pieces of the machine flew across the flightline. "I went out to help the crew chief on the jet clean up the area and find out how...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Sept 18 (AFP) - Only 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, General Babajan's forces are the closest the beleaguered opposition are to striking the ruling Taliban regime. And as Washington prepares for punitive strikes against the Taliban and their "guest," Saudi-born Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden, blamed for last week's bloody terrorist attacks in the United States, Babajan can scent his opportunity. Stunned by the assassination of his military leader, Ahmad Shah Masood, two days before the suicide plane attacks in New York and Washington, Babajan and the anti-Taliban forces now have cause for ...

Remember Bagram: Expect to hear a lot more about a place called Bagram, site of the major Soviet air base during that country's ill-fated war in Afghanistan. About 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Kabul, Bagram remains under the control of the Northern Alliance, the only remaining opposition to the Taliban, who control the vast bulk of the country. Still occasionally used by Russian aircraft to fly covert supply missions for the North Alliance, Bagram would be the key to any sustained U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. There are few facilities there, except an all-weather runway, and the base ...

"Hello all! I pray everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will happily be ringing in the New Year in just a few short days. I honestly can't believe that we've gotten over what I believe to be the hardest part of this deployment... Christmas. As we're all away from our families and friends, we came together and did our best to make this Christmas special. Afterall, the real reason for our joy isn't caused by our loved ones. Sure, it's a great comfort and tradition to be with our families during this time of year; however, the real reason we...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2007 – A nine-person team deployed from 49th Material Maintenance Group at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., recently completed the largest deployable aircraft shelter in the Air Force. Airmen deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., work to build the largest deployable aircraft shelter in the Air Force. U.S. Air Force photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The team began construction on the 225-by-70-foot aircraft hangar Oct. 22 and completed it Nov. 5. The hangar, which is intended to simultaneously house three of the 455th Air Expeditionary...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Six years after the first U.S. bombs began falling on Afghanistan's Taliban government and its al-Qaida guests, America is planning for a long stay. Originally envisioned as a temporary home for invading U.S. forces, the sprawling American base at Bagram, a former Soviet outpost in the shadow of the towering Hindu Kush mountains, is growing in size by nearly a third. Today the U.S. has about 25,000 troops in the country, and other NATO nations contribute another 25,000, more than three times the number of international troops in the country four years ago, when the Taliban appeared...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Sept. 28, 2007 – The recent speedy landing and launch of one of the world’s largest aircraft promises to bring “tremendous” capability for the movement of critical cargo across the region, according to 455th Air Expeditionary Wing officials here. A C-5 Galaxy, the Air Force's largest airlift platform, landed at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, without interruption to flight operations for the first time Sept. 21, 2007. Photo by Master Sgt. Jamie Cabral, USAF  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. An Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport landed here Sept. 22 without interrupting wing flying operations, a...

FORT BLISS, Texas - A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, a defense lawyer involved in a prison abuse case said Tuesday. Omar al-Farouq was one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Southeast Asia until Indonesian authorities captured him in the summer of 2002 and turned him over to the United States. A Pentagon official in Washington confirmed Tuesday evening that al-Farouq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 10. The official spoke on condition of...

BY JESUS TORQUEMADA Analysis: Talibans, ready for anything 02/27/2007 Since they were ousted in 2002, Talibans maintained some positions in the south, but had hardly been able to attack the capital. Now they have done so, and in a spectacular way. The soldiers of the international force deployed in Afghanistan were expecting an offensive against the Talibans as spring approached. Maybe, what they were not expecting was that the offensive would start with an attack against the Bagram base, the most important of the international force in Afghanistan. The Bagram base shelters mostly American soldiers, although there are also soldiers...

Taliban 'knew of Cheney visit' 27/02/2007 12:07 - (SA) Islamabad - A suicide attack at an Afghan air base where US vice-president Dick Cheney was staying shows that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have penetrated local intelligence agencies, analysts and officials said. The blast early on Tuesday at Bagram air base near Kabul also highlights the increasing sophistication of the extremist outfits as they prepare for a feared spring offensive against Western troops, they said. The day before the explosion Cheney warned President Pervez Musharraf of neighbouring Pakistan to crack down on militants regrouping in Pakistan's tribal areas to mount attacks...

Blast near main gates - several people killed

"...Given the level of attrition al Qaeda has suffered in the past several years -- and particularly with the death of al-Zarqawi in Iraq -- there are not many at the moment who have the broad public recognition, the background or the respect needed to fill the void that will be left by al-Zawahiri. Though a number of tactical commanders and leaders (such as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, al Qaeda's new leader in Iraq) have risen up to replace those killed or captured, most are not well-known by al Qaeda's supporters and grassroots followers. That is significant: The man who...

Yahoo! News and Reuters Al Qaeda escapee caught in Afghanistan: report 52 minutes ago KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have captured an al Qaeda operative who escaped from the main U.S. military prison in the country last year, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. The man, identified as Abu Nasir al-Qahtani, was captured recently in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the News newspaper said, citing Taliban supporters in the Pakistani border region of North Waziristan. The U.S. military said on November 6 a "known al Qaeda operative and five other extremists" had been captured during an operation...

BAGHDAD (Agencies): British forces said they killed Omar al-Farouq, a top terrorist leader, Monday, identified by Iraqi officials as an al-Qaida leader who had escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan and returned to Iraq. Al-Farouq, was one of four al-Qaida suspects who broke out of the prison in Bagram, the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, in July 2005. It was an embarrassing incident for the U.S. military, and Pentagon waited until November to confirm that the man had escaped. The delay in releasing his name upset Indonesia, who hadarrested Al-Farouq in 2002 and then turned him over to the...

My viewers are well aware that I have pointed out several times that hate-America leftists have been trying to hijack the 9/11 memorials planned and/or under construction across the USA. So far, the record seems to be that they have been unsuccessful in New York City, due to the intervention of Governor Pataki, but they have been successful in undermining the meaning of memorials planned for the location of the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania and of one just unveiled that is located in Arizona in memory of 9/11.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 -- The same global positioning technology that helps fighter and bomber pilots deliver smart bombs with pinpoint accuracy now allows bundles dropped from cargo planes to steer themselves to drop zones. A new GPS-guided “Screamer” bundle from the Joint Precision Air Drop System falls out the back of a C-130 Hercules over Afghanistan Aug. 26. The drop was made from 17,500 feet above mean sea level and was the first joint Air Force-Army operational drop of JPADS in the Central Command area of responsibility. Four bundles were dropped from the Alaska Air National Guard C-130....

8/22/2006 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Six U.S. and coalition troops peer out from a remote position on a ridge top in Afghanistan. At sunset on the third day of their vigil, a large force of Taliban extremists carrying heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades surround and pin down the team. By design, an Air Force joint tactical air controller is with the team. His job is to direct strike aircraft to targets on the ground. The situation on the ridge line is desperate until an Air Force pilot flying an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the vicinity contacts...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2006 -- Six U.S. and coalition troops peer out from a remote position on a ridge top in Afghanistan. At sunset on the third day of their vigil, a large force of Taliban extremists carrying heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades surround and pin down the team. An A-10 Thunderbolt II deployed to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, from the 81st Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, flies a combat sortie over Afghanistan May 26 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. A-10s are deployed to Bagram from...

/13/2006 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Security forces protect Air Force people and resources worldwide, even when those resources are on the move at more than 300 mph. The C-130 Hercules cargo plane is the primary means of moving supplies and troops around Afghanistan. Aircrews frequently land at remote, dirt landing strips to support U.S. and Coalition forces. Often, these out-of-the-way airfields have little or no security. The 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron has a solution to this security dilemma in the form of the Fly-Away Security Team, or FAST. "Our job is to protect the aircraft and its crew...

7/21/2006 - BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Soldiers and Airmen from the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team traveled to Nyazi Geranshakh in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan on July 19 to replace eight tents at its local school that were burned down earlier this week by arsonists. Team members were equipped with replacement tents as well as backpacks and other supplies to better the lives of the people of Afghanistan. "This is a really great mission," said 1st Lt. William Warner, the security forces detachment commander and a native of Glastonberry, Conn. Warner was one of many servicemembers who passed out supplies donated...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/17/06 - Beirut, Dahyieh Junubiya, al-Ghubeiri, Beir al-Abed, Bourj Shimali, Choueifat, Jiyeh, Khiam, Nabatiyeh, Ouzai, Saida, Sawfar, Taanayel, Tyre, Kiryat Shmona, Zebqine, Masnaa, Jdaydet Yabous, Damascus, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Cyprus, Poriat, Kabul, Bagram, Fallujah, Baghdad, Samawa BREAKING: Israel ground forces enter Lebanon BREAKING: Beirut - Israeli airstrike on the terrorist strongholds BREAKING: Dahyieh Junubiya - Israeli airstrike on the terrorist stronghold BREAKING: Bourj Shimali - Israeli airstrike on the terrorist stronghold BREAKING: Choueifat - Israeli airstrike on the terrorist stronghold BREAKING: Jiyeh - Israeli airstrike on the terrorist stronghold BREAKING: Khiam -...

7/6/2006 - BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Aircrews from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped something special on the Fourth of July for Soldiers at some of the most remote forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan. The 230th birthday of the United States proved to be another hot, dusty day here, but thanks to the C-130 Hercules crews and Army senior leaders from the Combined Joint Task Force-76, Soldiers on the ground knew they weren't forgotten. In all, 14 container delivery system bundles weighing 1,500 pounds each were airdropped to seven locations in Afghanistan, said Lt. Col. Blake Gettys, the 774th...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush arrived back at the White House today. They will participate in traditional Memorial Day events tomorrow, including the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery followed by a memorial service in the Memorial Amphitheater. This event will be broadcast live on C-SPAN, beginning at approximately 10:30am Eastern time. For those who can't see it live, it will be rebroadcast at 8:00pm Eastern time on C-SPAN. For a President who is daily maligned by the media and people across the political spectrum, George W. Bush sure...

5/10/2006 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Deployed Airmen, distributing humanitarian supplies, are taken hostage by enemy forces while visiting an Afghan village. It’s now up to the accompanying squad of security forces to rescue the Airmen and eliminate the bad guys. This is the scenario members of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron were exercising here May 9 in the Army’s Military Operations in Urban Terrain, or MOUT, facility. The facility is custom-made for training and is designed to resemble a typical Afghan village, complete with buildings made of mud. Inside are a collection of high-tech cameras, video...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 17, 2006 – Afghan National Army Air Corps aviators began training with Task Force Falcon aviators and U.S. Army soldiers here April 11. Army Col. Michael Rose welcomes Afghan National Army Air Corps aviators as they arrive at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, April 11. Rose commands the coalition's Task Force Falcon. The Afghan aviators will operate with coalition forces during Operation Mountain Lion and beyond. Photo by Sgt. Stephanie van Geete, USA   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The arrival of the 18-person team marks the first assignment of Afghan aviators here in...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AP) - President Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, flying here secretly to support its fledging government in the face of rising violence from al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Bush made a detour from a trip to India for a five-hour visit here that was not announced officially until Air Force One landed at this sprawling military base north of Kabul. The White House wanted to conceal Bush's presence to reduce the risk of any attempt on his life. But word of his visit leaked shortly before he landed. From Bagram, Bush was to...

Polish troops lead the way in demining Bagram base By Anita Powell, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Sunday, February 19, 2006 BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Before officials expand this base to roughly twice its current size, they’ll have to manually evict countless longtime tenants. Local officials estimate it will take between three and five years to clear all of Bagram Air Base, a former Soviet base, of Soviet-sown anti-personnel mines, Afghan-laid anti-tank mines and anti-personnel mines and countless ammunition rounds, small bombs, grenades and shrapnel. The task illustrates one of the many obstacles facing Afghanistan: The nation is the...

1 hour, 21 minutes ago KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police killed four protesters on Tuesday in some of the worst violence to erupt over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which have provoked a deepening crisis between Europe and the Muslim World. British troops were ordered to the Afghan town of Maymana to restore order after crowds attacked a NATO base of Norwegian troops with guns and grenades and police opened fire bringing the protest death toll in the Middle East and Asia to nine. "The situation is still out of control, but we have established some kind of a...

12/28/2005 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- A-10 Thunderbolt IIs continue taking the fight to the enemy by providing close air support to U.S. and coalition forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom. Shortly after deploying in September to this base at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains from Davis-Monthan Air Base, Ariz., the 354th Fighter Squadron “Bulldogs” began making history. “Our A-10s have provided non-stop presence and lethal firepower since we arrived,” said the squadron commander Lt. Col. Martha McSally. “From ensuring the success of Afghanistan’s first-ever provincial elections on Sept. 18 to the first seating of an...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – (Army News Service, Dec. 22, 2005) – Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth Preston brought his Sergeant Major of the Army’s Hope and Freedom Tour 2005 to Bagram Airfield Dec. 17. Joining him on this tour was Sergeant Major of the Army Reserves Michele Jones, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps John Estrada, Keni Thomas, Mark Wills, Craig Morgan, Al Franken, Traylor Howard, SoulJahz, two Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and members of the U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”. “I just want the service members to know that they aren’t forgotten, and that someone cares about them and...

11/9/2005 - PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Airmen fighting the global war on terrorism from nearby Bagram Air Base took time to spread cheer and share smiles with the people of a village here. As part of an adopt-a-village visit Nov. 3, Airmen distributed more than 1,200 pounds of winter clothes, blankets, school supplies and toys, said Master Sgt. Edgar Langdon, Bagram’s adopt-a-village coordinator. “Our adopt-a-village program gives Airmen from the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing a chance to travel outside the gate and share some goodwill with the people of Afghanistan,” said Sergeant Langdon, deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force, Base,...

10/3/2005 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Aircraft parking space is getting a boost from the ground up here as a team of Red Horse engineers remove and replace 60,000-square meters of ramp space. Once complete, the $4.4-million airfield construction project will provide U.S. and coalition aircraft supporting Operation Enduring Freedom a better place to park, said Capt. Todd Williams, officer in charge of Bagram’s detachment of the 1st Expeditionary Red Horse Group from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. “Our Red Horse team is removing the Soviet steel planking that currently covers the site,” said Captain Williams, a native...

While the command structure and isolation make Provisional Reconstruction Team Farah unique, the mission is the same: help the Afghan people build a better future. BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Aug. 23, 2005 — The 170-square meter compound stands out against the dusty reddish brown rock of southwestern Afghanistan. It’s a small compound with sparse amenities in the middle of nowhere. A few small saplings dot the compound but offer no shade or relief from the summer heat, which on a day in June topped out at 148 degrees. But the base that houses the Farah Provisional Reconstruction Team is a beacon of...

Quick action and creative thinking by Air Force and Army engineers had the runway fully active again in less than 30 hours. BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 9, 2005 — A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft rolled off the runway while landing at Bagram Airfield Aug. 6, damaging its nose and right main landing gears. As a result, the runway was closed, but quick action and creative thinking by Air Force and Army engineers had the runway fully active again in less than 30 hours. There were no injuries in the incident. "This is the best cooperative effort between...

Airmen donate supplies to Afghans by Capt. Mark D. Gibson 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 6/30/2005 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- About 50 Airmen recently volunteered to organize a container filled with nearly 63,000 pounds of donated supplies for an additional mission here -- the adoption of a village. Airman sorted the supplies into groups for males, females, adults and children. The Airmen then traveled to a village several miles outside Bagram to distribute the supplies. They delivered bags filled with basic school supplies to about 200 children from Haji Khan Baba, a small village within Afghanistan’s...