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This was in press today...

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Afghan President Hamid Karzai applauds during the flyover of the 111th Fighter Wing of Willow Grove Air Force Base, after being awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal at a ceremony at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Sunday, July 4, 2004. The medal's $100,000 prize will go to support Afghan children who have been orphaned in the recent conflicts, Karzai said. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

I cover OEF/ISAF for the SACEUR, so I watch Karzai's movements (sts) pretty close. I would have thought if he wanted to see A-10s in action he would have just gone to the eastern provinces of his own country...they are getting a lot of action there! (sts). Here is a nice pic of a Willow Grove A-10 for him...

<img src="http://www.pawill.ang.af.mil/images/a10photos/a10clouds.jpg" border=0>

Cheers! M2

Yeah, it's only a 30 minute drive (at breakneck speeds!) from the palace in Kabul to Bagram. He could even give one a kiss on the nose in appreciation!

"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles (6/10/04 was the day)

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Yep, there sure are A-10s at Bagram...

<img src="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/images/bagram_020411_01.jpg" border=0>

Cheers! M2

Yup! Last Raven was kind enough to give me several guided tours while the 81st and I were there! Had a very cute J2, also!<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle>

"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles (6/10/04 was the day)

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I cover OEF/ISAF for the SACEUR, so I watch Karzai's movements (sts) pretty close. I would have thought if he wanted to see A-10s in action he would have just gone to the eastern provinces of his own country...they are getting a lot of action there! (sts). Here is a nice pic of a Willow Grove A-10 for him...

<img src="http://www.pawill.ang.af.mil/images/a10photos/a10clouds.jpg" border=0>

Cheers! M2


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Ah, he just wanted to see OUR A-10s again. The 111th was over there for Christmas 2002.

ATTACK!

30mm

You mean the Panther IO? Yep, know what you mean! <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

Cheers! M2

Yup. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle> She still a capt.?

"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles (6/10/04 was the day)

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

Last time I looked, and I was looking pretty hard!! <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Cheers! M2

why only the 1 mav?

better hope she doesn't find this forum <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ohh!! I did the Thanksgiving & Christmas 2003, and New Years 2004 in Bagram. I sure am gonna miss those deployments....<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>!

Majormadmax: Thats an extremely old pic of "The Bag"! That was around my first trip there in 2002. It's a little more like LOLA at Nellis now. Big old revetments.

30mm: Or a 5 min Chinook ride!

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Weasel- It was exactly a year ago today I started my journey to Afdustistan. giving serious thought to spending summer '05 there. I managed to avoid the chinooks- got a 1 hour tour of the area and Kabul in a Blackhawk, though!<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Max- Took some pretty hard looks myself...didn't hurt a bit!<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

I hope she does, yojimbo! There was precious little else to look at over there. She was (is) Visine for the soul!<img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle>

"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles (6/10/04 was the day)

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

Jimbo when are you coming to Mass to see your bro ?
(sorry didnt mean to hijack the thread)

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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