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  Holloman Air Force Base - Home
Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Holloman Air Force Base was originally established in 1942 as Alamogordo Air Field six miles west of Alamogordo, New Mexico.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- A historic accomplishment here is simply part of the job for a traveling team of Airmen who have been enhancing Air Force missions throughout the region for the last two months.
The new trailer was bought with the $3,000 given to the Steel Talons by Lt. Gen.
www.holloman.af.mil   (555 words)

  
  Communication.... Bagram Air Base Afghanistan, Jammed Despite, Bagram air base afghanistan
Bagram airbase played a key role during the soviet occupation of afghanistan from 1980 to 1989, serving as a base of operations for troops and supplies.
To bagram air base in afghanistan and manas air base in kyrgyzstan.
Bagram air base, afghanistan, july 31, 2003 air force gen. Bagram air base, afghanistan the airmen and soldiers living at this barebones base say they are living life on the edge, with the tip of the spear poking.
sloniks.ibelgique.com /bagram-air-base-afghanistan/index.html   (995 words)

  
  Bagram Air Base at AllExperts
Bagram Air Base is an airport located at the antique city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
Bagram Airbase played a key role during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989, serving as a base of operations for troops and supplies.
Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at the beginning of the conflict, with a number of airborne divisions being deployed there.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/bagram_air_base.htm   (959 words)

  
  Bagram Air Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bagram Air Base (ICAO: OAIX) is an airport located at the ancient city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
Bagram Airbase played a key role during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989, serving as a base of operations for troops and supplies.
Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at the beginning of the conflict, with a number of airborne divisions being deployed there.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagram_Air_Base   (897 words)

  
 A Growing Afghan Prison Rivals Bleak Guantánamo - New York Times
Privately, some administration officials acknowledge that the situation at Bagram has increasingly come to resemble the legal void that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June 2004 affirming the right of prisoners at Guantánamo to challenge their detention in United States courts.
Yet Bagram's expansion, which was largely fueled by growing numbers of detainees seized on the battlefield and a bureaucratic backlog in releasing many of the Afghan prisoners, also underscores the Bush administration's continuing inability to resolve where and how it will hold more valuable terror suspects.
After an Army investigation, the practices found to have caused those two deaths — the chaining of detainees by the arms to the ceilings of their cells and the use of knee strikes to the legs of disobedient prisoners by guards — were halted by early 2003.
www.nytimes.com /2006/02/26/international/26bagram.html?ei=5090&en=89ac1b607f0786c8&ex=1298610000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print   (2390 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, October 3 (IslamOnline.net and News Agencies) - At least six people were killed and seven others injured Friday, October 3, in a massive explosion which destroyed several houses outside the U.S.-led military coalition's main base in Afghanistan, rescue workers said.
Bagram Air Base is the headquarters of the 12,500-strong U.S.-led coalition hunting Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters.
The base, once the front-line during the Afghan civil war and a former Soviet air base, is in one of the most heavily-mined areas north of Kabul.
www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-10/03/article05.shtml   (1160 words)

  
 Operation Blind Fury. War in Afghanistan.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - An American soldier was injured Thursday when he stepped on a land mine at Bagram Air Base while conducting a mine- clearing operation, a U.S. military spokesman said.
Bagram Air Base was once a Soviet base.
The village outside its perimeter and the surrounding area, a front line of fighting between the Taliban and the northern alliance, is dotted with land mines, as is the base itself.
www.aeronautics.ru /archive/vif2_project/news_0120.htm   (379 words)

  
 Bagram Air base - alleged detainees at Bagram Air base Afghanistan
Bagram Air base - alleged detainees at Bagram Air base Afghanistan
Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan is located in the Parvan Province approximately 11 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of the city of Charikar and 47 Kilometers (27 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
The Bagram Air Baseis served by a 10,000 foot runway built in 1976 capable of serving large cargo and bomber aircraft.
www.freeparachas.org /bagram_air_base.htm   (485 words)

  
 Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, Schema-Root news   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was a detention center at Bagram Air Base, where he was grilled on suspicion of being a Taliban fighter.
Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan - Following the deaths of 32 Virginia Tech students, the President of the United States ordered that all American flags be...
Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, April 23, 2007 - In the last month, US troops in Afghanistan have found weapons made in Iran, though how the weapons got there...
schema-root.org /region/asia/southwest_asia/afghanistan/us_bases/bagram   (953 words)

  
 Air Force Times - News - More News.
The first relief supplies from the United States were ready for departure aboard a C-17 Globemaster III from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, less than 48 hours after the devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and thousands more injured.
Air Force efforts to deliver earthquake relief supplies to Pakistan are underway, with the first C-17 Globemaster III filled with supplies arriving Oct. 10 at Islamabad, Pakistan, officials say.
Bagram, the U.S. military’s hub for Afghanistan operations, is about 250 miles west of Islamabad.
www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1164387.php   (258 words)

  
 American Soldiers Stay on the Beaten Path at Heavily-Mined Bagram Air Base
The U.S. base at Bagram, just north of Kabul, is home to some 6,000 coalition soldiers, who eat, work and sleep in the muddy fields around the runway and bombed out hangars.
Nearly a quarter-century of fighting has left Bagram littered with mines and unexploded ordnance, from the tiny, flesh-shredding toe-popper land mines to rusting 500-pound Soviet bombs sticking out of the fields just beyond the runway.
And the base was on the front lines of fighting between the northern alliance and Taliban, with each side laying their own mines.
www.banminesusa.org /news/983_afghan/976_afghan.html   (774 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - U.S. air base somber after Black Hawk crash   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. soldiers on Friday picked through the wreckage of a helicopter strewn across an Afghan plain, looking for clues to the cause of a crash that killed four soldiers.
Bagram lies nearly a mile above sea level and the thinner air reduces the lifting capacity of helicopter.
The Special Operations helicopter went down Thursday evening seven miles east of the air base, the U.S. headquarters for the war on Afghanistan, and all aboard were killed.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-01-31-black-hawk-crash_x.htm   (695 words)

  
 Bagram Air Base information - Search.com
Bagram Air Base is an airport located at the antique city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at the beginning of the conflict, with a number of airborne divisions being deployed there.
By early December 2001 troops from the 10th Mountain Division shared the base with Special Operations Command officers from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida and soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg.
www.search.com /reference/Bagram_Air_Base   (840 words)

  
 St. Cloud Times Online
BAGRAM AIR BASE - The discussion ranged from the fabric softener used in the laundry to plans for upgrades on the base.
BAGRAM AIR BASE -- Traveling to a different time zone is confusing enough, but throw a reporter with math anxiety into the mix and you've got a mess.
Bagram was a major air base for Soviet forces during their war in Afghanistan.
miva.sctimes.com /miva/cgi-bin/miva?Military_Portal/notebook.mv   (9214 words)

  
 RONCO: News/Archives
BAGRAM, Afghanistan There is a story circulating among the sappers slowly clearing this former Soviet air base of land mines, which they say is revealing about the situation in Afghanistan.
When the Soviets finally admitted defeat and were pulling out of Bagram in the late 1980s, they would drive across a thin metal span they nicknamed the Bridge of Freedom.
Bagram air base was once littered with as many as 15,000 unexploded land mines, but American military officials on Friday said that teams have now cleared 75 percent of the base's interior.
www.roncoconsulting.com /news/bagram_base.html   (630 words)

  
 Ellsworth Air Force Base - Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Staff Sgt. Scott Haas drives a stake during construction of a new A-10 Thunderbolt II maintenance building's concrete driveway.
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Airman 1st Class Collins Osei levels gravel before concrete is poured for a new A-10 Thunderbolt II maintenance building's driveway.
TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Caryn Baksis informs Senior Airman Jesse Fox of an aircraft entering the Tallil airspace that is being controlled by the Kuwaiti Center.
www.ellsworth.af.mil /photos/index.asp?page=6   (919 words)

  
 'Ammo' Airmen Arm Bagram's Warfighters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Air Force Master Sgt. Robert Jackson inspects a 30 mm round for an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the munitions storage area for Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Jackson is a member of the Air Force Reserve deployed to Bagram as a munitions specialist.
Air Force Staff Sgt. James McCall uses a mallet to install a bearing assembly into the wheel of a trailer used to transport bombs and other ordnance.
www.blackanthem.com /News/military_2006071405.html   (681 words)

  
 Defend America News Article - Life at Bagram Air Base: Mud, Dust and Noise
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — The airmen and soldiers living at this bare-bones base say they are living life on the edge, with the tip of the spear poking them in the back.
Today the base is home to Task Force Afghanistan and the focus of operations is against remaining opposition in Afghanistan.
An Army and Air Force Exchange representative is supposed to fly into the camp each Friday, but the representative has only been at the base twice in two months, he said.
www.defendamerica.mil /articles/mar2002/a030702b.html   (1094 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | "Worse" Than Guantanamo: U.S. Expands Secretive Prison Inside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan
The U.S. is holding 500 at the base in wire cages at the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul in Afghanistan.
Citing unnamed military officials and former detainees, the Times reports that prisoners at Bagram are held by the dozen in wire cages, sleep on the floor on foam mats and are often made to use plastic buckets for latrines.
I mean, it sounds like the reason Bagram is growing is because of all of the international outcry around Guantanamo, but also Guantanamo's legal relationship with the United States on a U.S. air base in Cuba.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/02/27/1519239&mode=thread&tid=25   (2965 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Taking it in stride: U.S. troops patrol on the ...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan – At first light Wednesday, Sgt. Dallas Donelson was out on the flight line as he is every day, preparing A-10 Thunderbolt jets for daily patrols, checking essential systems and loading weapons.
At Bagram base, the business-as-usual approach to Sept. 11 was a decision made at the top.
Bargmann is a member of Bagram's Quick Response Force, on call 24 hours a day to respond to emergencies – an aircraft downing or soldiers under attack.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20020911-0546-sept11-bagram.html   (807 words)

  
 Bagram Report March2002
Soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions and Afghan anti-Taliban forces took off from Bagram Air Base, 25 miles north of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Air Force tactical air control parties went in with the 10th MD troops.
Air Force pararescue teams tried repeatedly to extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield, but intense fire forced them back.
mdwag.tripod.com /usafnews.com/id16.html   (1665 words)

  
 Bagram Air Base   (Site not responding. Last check: )
American forces in Afghanistan also remembered their dead on Saturday, holding a ceremony in Bagram air base north of Kabul.
Bagram Air Base is located near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
It was extensively used by Soviet aircraft during the Soviet war in Afghanistan from 1980-1989.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/ba/bagram_air_base.html   (104 words)

  
 Medics Provide First Response At Bagram Gate
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, July 29, 2004 – Patients come to Bagram Air Base from as far away as Pakistan and Uzbekistan, knowing they will receive the best medical care available.
A triage and treatment station is set up at the base's front gate to determine the severity of each situation.
Based on the severity of the injury or illness, the medics determine where the patient should be transported.
www.militarymoney.com /news/211   (824 words)

  
 VAW-123 Rewrites Tactics Textbook
VAW-123 conducted air operations from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
At nearly a mile above sea level, Bagram Air Base is the northernmost airfield in Afghanistan.
Bagram is also the temporary home of the Air Force’s 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, as well as Marine and Army ground forces, making it a joint forces setting.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=10695   (780 words)

  
 Fallen Heroes of Operation Enduring Freedom - Listed by date
Hickey was evacuated from Bagram, Afghanistan, on June 30, 2004 and died in Landstuhl, Germany, of complications from a non-combat related illness.
Corlew died in the crash of a U.S. Air Force MC-130H Combat Talon II aircraft in the Paktika province of Afghanistan.
Shero died in the crash of a U.S. Air Force MC-130H Combat Talon II aircraft in the Paktika province of Afghanistan.
www.fallenheroesmemorial.com /oef   (12878 words)

  
 A Soldier's Life
Bagram Air Base is a sprawling compound of tents and buildings just outside Bagram, Afghanistan.
The air base was built by the Soviet Union during its 10-year occupation of Afghanistan.
The high-Tech Command Center at Bagram Bagram Air Base is the main command post for all the troops in Afghanistan.
www.operationhomerun.org /afghan_soldiers_life.htm   (932 words)

  
 America: Incommunicado detention / Fear of ill-treatment, Adil al-Jazeeri - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: )
in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, and others still are being held in US custody in undisclosed locations.
Detainees undergoing interrogation by agents of the CIA in the Bagram Air Base
Bagram, but has received no response from the authorities.
web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGAMR511032003   (840 words)

  
 RONCO: RONCO in the News
BAGRAM, Afghanistan There is a story circulating among the sappers slowly clearing this former Soviet air base of land mines, which they say is revealing about the situation in Afghanistan.
When the Soviets finally admitted defeat and were pulling out of Bagram in the late 1980s, they would drive across a thin metal span they nicknamed the Bridge of Freedom.
Bagram air base was once littered with as many as 15,000 unexploded land mines, but American military officials on Friday said that teams have now cleared 75 percent of the base's interior.
www.demining.com /news/bagram_base.html   (611 words)

  
 DefenseLink News Article: Security Forces Team Patrols Bagram Air Base
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2004 – Air Force Airman Michael Roomsburg stopped the Humvee, as Air Force Staff Sgt. Chad Marten called to notify the command post that their team was set to patrol the outer perimeter road here.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Chad Marten (left) and Air Force Airman Michael Roomsburg, members of an external-security response team, keep watch on construction work taking place at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
The two-man team's primary mission is to ensure the base and Air Force assets remain safe.
www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=24710   (707 words)

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