Strategy to action

Senior staff of the Afghan Air Force and NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan, joined by the Afghan AF air wings via video teleconference, witness and discuss the way ahead for 2012-13. Maj. Gen. Abdul Wahab Wardak, AAF commander, and Brig. Gen. Steven Shepro, NATC-A commander, signed the first-ever combined strategy Nov. 28, 2012 in NATC-A headquarters at the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport. The 54-page document committed both commands to action on jointly developed vision, goals and milestone timelines into 2013 and beyond in support of Afghan AF development. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Dennis Henry)

Signed into effect

Maj. Gen. Abdul Wahab Wardak, commander of the Afghan Air Force, and Brig. Gen. Steven Shepro, commander of NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan, sign the first ever combined strategy into effect Nov. 28, 2012 in NATC-A headquarters at the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport. The 54-page document committed both commands to action on jointly developed vision, goals and milestone timelines into 2013 and beyond in support of Afghan AF development.

moving

In a simulation, Afghan Air Force aircrew members practice moving patients to a litter so they can properly load them onto a Mi-17 for an air transfer Nov. 20, 2012 at the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport. Students had three days of training to learn such skills as proper patient loading and unloading techniques on Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters, and classroom and hands-on training for tourniquet, sling and bandage application.(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Melissa K. Mekpongsatorn)

AAF help lift patients

Afghan Air Force aircrew members watch as peers practice litter carries onto an Mi-17 helicopter on Nov. 20, 2012 the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport. Afghan Air Force, U.S. Air Force and other Coalition Forces members spent three days teaching basic medical training, medical and causality evacuation procedures to AAF flight engineers, pilots and aerial gunners. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Melissa K. Mekpongsatorn)

medical course

Afghan Air Force Chief Flight Surgeon Col. Tooryalay [back] shows Afghan aircrew members how to properly apply a splint to an arm Nov. 20, 2012 at the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport. Toorlay and two other Afghan medics spent three days teaching a basic medical course to Afghan Air Force aircrew members.(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Melissa K. Mekpongsatorn)

practice

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Hanlon, 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron aerial gunner, allows Afghan aircrew members in a basic medical skills class practice applying a tourniquet to his leg Nov. 20, 2012 at the Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport during a simulated medical emergency. The students had a chance to practice this and other medical skills during a three-day class taught by a combination of Afghan, U.S., French, Czech, Croatian and Hungarian service members.(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Melissa K. Mekpongsatorn)