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Two Mi-35 attack helicopters from the Afghan Army Air Corps launch on a gunnery training mission as a Mi-17 transport lands in the background at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, May 27, 2009. The Combined Air Power Transition Force and the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing have helped Afghanistan get its air corps into the air and into the fight.

AFGHAN AIR POWER

Two Mi-35 attack helicopters from the Afghan Army Air Corps launch on a gunnery training mission as a Mi-17 transport lands in the background at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, May 27, 2009. The Combined Air Power Transition Force and the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing have helped Afghanistan get its air corps into the air and into the fight.

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