Afghan, coalition forces celebrate AAF women

Afghan Air Force leadership listens to a traditional Afghan poetry reading at the AAF International Women’s Day celebration March 7 at the Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Members of the Afghan parliament, Ministry of Defense, AAF and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization recognized the efforts of the AAF women and continued gender integration. The festivities also included a luncheon of traditional Afghan food. The women’s day events were planned by the AAF with the assistance of air advisors with NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Anastasia Burgess)

Afghan, coalition forces celebrate AAF women

Afghan girls attended the Afghan Air Force International Women’s Day event March 7 at the Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Members of the Afghan parliament, Ministry of Defense, AAF and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization recognized the efforts of the AAF women and continued gender integration. The festivities also included an Afghan poetry reading and a luncheon of traditional Afghan food. The women’s day events were planned by the AAF with the assistance of air advisors with NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Anastasia Burgess)

Afghan, coalition forces celebrate AAF women

Brig. Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Air Forces Central Command director of mobility forces, greets Lt. Col. Latifa Nabizaba, Afghan Air Force pilot, at the AAF celebration of International Women’s Day March 7 at the Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Members of the Afghan parliament, Ministry of Defense, AAF and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrated the efforts of the AAF women and continued gender integration. The festivities also included an Afghan poetry reading and a luncheon of traditional Afghan food. The women’s day events were planned by the AAF with the assistance of air advisors with NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Tristan Hinderliter)

Air advisors organize orphanage supply drive

HERAT, AFGHANISTAN – After holding a four-month-long school supply drive, members of NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan delivered more than 900 pencils, 300 erasers, 150 notesbooks, 130 pens and 48 pencil sharpeners to 30 children at the Afghan Civil Society Orphanage Feb. 25, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tobias Ellis)

AAF launches operational capability standards, readiness reporting

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN– In a ceremony held at the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan headquarters, Maj. Gen. Abdul Wahab Wardak, commander of the Afghan Air Force, along with Brig. Gen. Steve Shepro, NATC-A commander, shake hands after a historic signing ceremony for two documents, the Designated Operational Capability Statement and Unit Mission Decree Feb. 26, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt Joseph Prouse)

AAF launches operational capability standards, readiness reporting

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN– In a ceremony held at the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan headquarters, Brig. Gen. Steve Shepro, NATC-A commander, places his signature alongside Maj. Gen. Abdul Wahab Wardak, commander of the Afghan Air Force. These commanders came together for a historic signing ceremony for two documents, the Designated Operational Capability Statement and Unit Mission Decree Feb. 26, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt Joseph Prouse)