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Task Force Mustang is the deployment unit name for the Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard.The CAB completed a tour of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the fall of 2007 when it was relieved by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, a similarly constituted regular army unit.
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
TF XII served in Balad, Iraq as the Corps Aviation Brigade under Multi-National Corps-Iraq over a four-month period before relocating to Taji as the aviation brigade under Multi-National Division-Baghdad. 12 CAB’s 3rd Battalion deployed to Balad and Basarah, Iraq from July 2007 to August 2008 being the last unit in the Army to serve longer ...
An Afghan military helicopter crashed on Wednesday in Ghor province in western Afghanistan, killing at least one person, the Taliban defense ministry said. The helicopter was on a rescue mission ...
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August 10: A British RAF CH-47D Chinook crashed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. "The helicopter due to technical problems crashed in Gereshk district at 04:00 a.m. local time, as a result one soldier sustained injury and died," spokesman for provincial administration Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua.
3rd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps (Afghan) U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol the fields in Aftermath. OTHER SUPPORTING UNITS. Combat Logistics Battalion 6 CLR2; 451st Air Expeditionary Wing (US) 904 Expeditionary Air Wing (UK) [101] Canadian Helicopter Force - Afghanistan
Operation Allies Refuge was an evacuation effort carried out by the United States during the 2021 Taliban offensive.It took place in the final weeks of the War in Afghanistan and saw the airlifting of certain at-risk Afghan civilians (particularly coalition-allied interpreters), employees of the American embassy in Kabul, and other prospective applicants for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV).