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Afghan Air Force medics, with help from coalition advisers, facilitated a critical medical evacuation effort recently as a result of a bombing in Herat Province that killed 22.

MONS, Belgium — At approximately 09:30, two NATO aircraft collided while conducting a training flight based out of the Zokniai Air Base located in northern Lithuania.

BAGHDAD – In the last week, the NATO Training Mission in Iraq scored three more achievements in its endeavour to assist the Iraqi Security Forces: the completion of the first Federal Police Crowd and Riot Control course, with all Iraqi instructors, and the fifth Oil Police Basic course, both of which took place at Camp Dublin, and the conclusion of the second Unit Instructor course at Taji.

Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander U.S. European Command, together with Admiral Giampaolo di Paola, the Chairman of the Military Committee of NATO, visited KFOR Headquarters and troops in Kosovo on August 29, 2011.

HELMAND, Afghanistan (August 27, 2011)– Marine Corps instructors at the Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, are in the process of training an elite group of Afghan Uniformed Police in a first-of-its-kind training program.

Medical Embedded Training Team mentors hosted Navy Rear Adm. David Smith, the top medical adviser to NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, during a tour of the Afghan National Army hospital on Camp Shaheen, near Mazar-e-Sharif.

BAGHDAD – NATO Training Mission-Iraq Deputy Commander, Maj. Gen. Giovanni Armentani, and NTM-I advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, Col. Caimmi, met with the Iraqi Navy Commander, Rear Adm. Ali Hussein Al-Rubaye at the Iraqi Ministry of Defence for the first time Thursday.

The National Military Academy of Afghanistan partnered with NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan to distribute hundreds of student textbooks to Kabul Education University Aug. 18.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Members of the Afghan Ministry of Interior's Air Interdiction Unit met a major milestone 10 August 2011 with the completion of their first fully-integrated counter narcotics operation alongside a coalition aircrew.

As the one-year anniversary of the birth of the Afghan Local Police nears, many rural districts have seen considerable security and economic improvements because of the new police force.

Baghdad – The NATO Training Mission Iraq headquarters recently held a ceremony marking the handover of responsibility for military training and education at the Iraqi Military Academy and Joint Staff and Command College at Ar Rustamiyah.

The Afghan National Army Engineer School Mentor Team is literally teaching their Afghan students how to build a nation and an army at the school, located on Camp Shaheen, near Mazar-e-Sharif, in the Northern Region of Afghanistan.
 

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