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An Afghan soldier with the Afghan National Army Air Corps directs a newly delivered AN-32 transport plane to its spot on the ramp of Kabul Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 10, 2008. The plane is the first of four refurbished AN-32s that were bought from the Ukraine for the ANAAC by the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

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An Afghan soldier with the Afghan National Army Air Corps directs a newly delivered AN-32 transport plane to its spot on the ramp of Kabul Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 10, 2008. The plane is the first of four refurbished AN-32s that were bought from the Ukraine for the ANAAC by the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

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