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    Task Force Corsair Chinooks soar over Regional Command-East [Image 1 of 2]

    Task Force Corsair Chinooks soar over Regional Command-East

    FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, AFGHANISTAN

    08.13.2012

    Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon 

    82nd Combat Aviation Brigade

    A Task Force Corsair, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47F Chinook flies over Logar province Aug. 13, 2012. The 82nd CAB supports more than 43,000 square miles of territory in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officers 2 Pete Bjorkman of Wareham, Mass., and Robert Nickison of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, pilot the massive bird while U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Amed Bamba of Newark, N.J., U.S. Army Sgt. Carlos Whatley of Misawa Air Force Base, Japan, and U.S. Army William Rhodes of Shelbyville, Tenn., crew the helicopter. Company B 3-82, also known as the "Flippers," transport troops, fuel, and supplies both day and night.

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    Date Taken: 08.13.2012
    Date Posted: 08.20.2012 05:51
    Photo ID: 648416
    VIRIN: 120813-A-4291P-676
    Resolution: 2100x1395
    Size: 786.47 KB
    Location: FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, AF
    Hometown: FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, LOW, AF
    Hometown: FAYETTEVILLE, NC, US
    Hometown: FORT LIBERTY, NC, US
    Hometown: RALEIGH, NC, US

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