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A massive
U.S. food-relief operation during the early winter helped avert
widespread starvation in Afghanistan. Here, one of the U.S.
Air Force C-17 Globemasters prepares to drop food bundles to
Afghan citizens during the food crisis.
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U.S.
forces dropped leaflets alerting Afghanis to the yellow Humanitarian
Daily Ration food packages.
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U.S.
Army Civil Affairs members work with community and tribal leaders
to determine local concerns and how and if U.S. forces can help
improve living conditions. Here, a Civil Affairs specialist
meets with professors from Balkh University in Mazar-e-Sharif
over traditional tea and cookies during the Eid al-Adha Muslim
holiday.
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A U.S.
Army Civil Affairs specialist visits the Sakhi internally displaced
persons camp to assess security conditions for international
humanitarian aid agencies.
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military members coordinate with UN and international humanitarian
aid agencies in Mazar-e-Sharif concerning aid transport into the
province. |
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Besides
an official U.S. one billion dollar, four-year aid program,
private American donations to Afghanistan’s citizens have
been flowing in. Here, a U.S. Army engineer officer presents
a new jacket to a young girl – one of many donated by the
officer's hometown in North Carolina for needy Afghan children.
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The Afghan
people's liberation from an extremist regime that turned their
country into a base for a murderous terrorist organization has
given hope to a new generation. Here, an American paratrooper
of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) walks with children
in the village of Esmail Karaze.
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U.S. Army rigger makes up food bundles for airdrops that will include
dates, a traditional fruit eaten in Islamic Afghanistan after fasting
during Ramadan. |
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Each U.S.
Air Force C-17 dropped 17,500 individual Humanitarian Daily Ration
food packages near Afghan refugee camps during the food crisis.
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Wounded Southern
Alliance soldiers are brought onto the flight deck of the USS Peleliu
(LHA 5) for some fresh air after medical treatment.
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of several wounded Pashtun freedom fighters receives U.S. Navy medical
treatment in the surgical ward aboard the USS Bataan (LHD 5) during
Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. |
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U.S. Army
soldiers provided notebooks and pencils to schools in liberated
areas. Emphasizing education of Afghanistan's youth as the future
of their country, the U.S. later printed nine million schoolbooks
for the new Afghan school year.
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protect Afghan civilians, U.S. soldiers handed out thousands of leaflets
to warn citizens – children in particular – of the dangers
of unexploded ordnance and mines in their areas, until coalition forces
can neutralize them. |
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