This year’s Silver Cross Mother lost her son to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan

This year's Silver Cross Mother, Nancy Payne, holds a photograph of her son, Corporal Randy Payne, who was killed in ...
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Kandahar Airfield celebrates Hispanic heritage

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - More than 150 people celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month in Kandahar Airfield's Fest Tent on Oct. 12 to commemorate contributions and achievements of Hispanic ...
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Better housing units, indoor plumbing to improve quality of life at Kandahar

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Flip-flops might soon disappear from the must-have lists of servicemembers stationed at this high desert base. That’s because new modular housing units ...

Silver Cross Mother mourns son who was killed in Afghanistan in 2006

Corporal Randy Payne was killed April 22, 2006, alongside three other soldiers, when a roadside bomb hit their military G-Wagon.
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Kandahar Airfield celebrates 10th anniversary of Fraise Chapel

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - The Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, multi-national forces and civilians assigned to Kandahar Airfield commemorated 10 years of services conducted at the airfield ...
Reuters

Afghanistan's Kandahar military base under attack

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 22 (Reuters) - Suspected militants fired rockets at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, followed by a ground attack, NATO and Afghan officials said.
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Journalist Embeds Canceled In Afghanistan

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. Special Forces and heavy bombers dropping 2,000-pound bombs on Taliban command and control ...
The Washington Post

U.S. Plans Expansion of Afghan Airfield To House Special Army Aviation Unit

The Bush administration's plans to increase the U.S. military role in Afghanistan include a $100 million expansion next year of the Kandahar airfield, to accommodate aircraft working for Task Force ...
DC Military

702nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron deactivates at Kandahar Airfield

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- A small group of Air Guardsmen were joined by senior leaders June 18 to celebrate the completion of their deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and to ...
The Washington Post

Kandahar’s Combat Knitters use yarn and needles as weapons of self-preservation

In the highlands of Peru, sheep are shorn. Their fleece is milled, spun into yarn and exported to a Seattle distributor, which ships the yarn across the continent to a knitting shop on North Fayette ...
Reuters

Blast at fuel depot near Kandahar airfield, 10 hurt

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 27 (Reuters) - An explosion struck a depot for fuel tanker trucks near southern Afghanistan's Kandahar air field on Tuesday, wounding 10 guards, an Afghan army general ...