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    Kandahar Air Wing’s Mi-17s use sling loads to deliver supplies [Image 4 of 5]

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

    DAI CHOPAN, AFGHANISTAN

    09.08.2011

    Photo by Senior Airman Jessica Lockoski 

    319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

    A Mi-17 helicopter delivers a pallet of fire wood to an Afghan National Army combat outpost in Dai Chopan, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, using a sling load method to deliver the cargo. 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 07:21
    Photo ID: 458325
    VIRIN: 110908-F-8370L-012
    Resolution: 1200x1807
    Size: 1.53 MB
    Location: DAI CHOPAN, AF

    Web Views: 81
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