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Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base [3] (IATA: OAI, ICAO: OAIX), is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. It is under the Afghan Ministry of Defense .
English: The 9/11 memorial at the Regional Command-East Headquarters at Bagram Airfield stands as a reminder to all U.S. troops why they are serving and fighting so far from home. The memorial was created from scrap steel found at Ground Zero and was revealed on Memorial Day 2010.
Bagram (/ b ə ɡ r ɑː m /; Pashto/Persian: بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir Valley , near today's city of Charikar , Afghanistan.
In a show of force to mark their third year in power, the Taliban held a parade at Bagram Airfield earlier this month. The sprawling base was the primary hub for U.S. troops in Afghanistan as they ...
The U.S. military left Bagram Airfield - its key base in Afghanistan - in the dead of night without telling the Afghans, the base's new commander said.
An American contractor, working for KBR, died of natural causes at Bagram airfield. [citation needed] April 3, 2006 – One Turkish road engineer was killed in Nimroz province. [29] April 24, 2006 – Two Ukrainian pilots were killed when their An-26 plane crashed in Helmand province. [30]
Nearly 20 years after invading Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and hunt down al-Qaida, the U.S. military has vacated its biggest airfield in the country, advancing a final withdrawal that the ...
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ryan Munchel, assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, transfers liquid oxygen to an LOX reservoir in a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft on the flight line at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 5, 2015.