PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, prepare to enter and search a housing compound in a village in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 14. The Soldiers’ mission was to search buildings and homes for weapons and insurgents. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Warren W. Wright, Jr., 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, drop a nontoxic chemical light down a well during a search for weapons and insurgents in a village housing compound, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 14. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Warren W. Wright, Jr., 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A platoon leader from 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division, waits for a helicopter extraction after tossing a smoke grenade to mark his team’s pick up location during a mission in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 14. The 501st PIR Paratroopers’ objective was to search area homes and buildings for weapons insurgents. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Warren W. Wright, Jr., 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

 

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan— Someone once said Egypt was a place flowing with milk and honey, but for the local Afghan people the El Salam Egyptian Field Hospital gives so much more.

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Polish PRT, GIRoA find sewage solution

 

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