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    Kandahar Air Wing’s Mi-17s use sling loads to deliver supplies

    FORWARD OPERATING BASE EAGLE, AFGHANISTAN

    09.08.2011

    Photo by Senior Airman Jessica Lockoski 

    319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

    A Mi-17 helicopter lifts a pallet of cargo using a sling load method at Operating Base Eagle, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 8. A coalition aircrew of Afghan, U.S. and Lithuanian airmen from the Kandahar Air Wing, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan comprise the only Afghan Air Wing to make weekly operational sling load deliveries throughout the country. Afghan Air Force Mi-17s can externally sling load more than 8,500 pounds of oversized or bulky cargo.

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    Date Taken: 09.08.2011
    Date Posted: 09.18.2011 07:22
    Photo ID: 458324
    VIRIN: 110908-F-8370L-011
    Resolution: 1200x1732
    Size: 1.12 MB
    Location: FORWARD OPERATING BASE EAGLE, AF

    Web Views: 144
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