USAF airmen worked with Afghan National Army Air Corps personnel to aid 83 Kuchi nomads, whose village on a sandbar in a river they could normally walk across was endangered by rising flood waters Feb. 8. The USAF airmen, members of the 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group flew with ANAAC personnel in two Mi-17 helicopters to retrieve the villagers, which proved problematic due to a dust storm and lack of good directions. Meanwhile, at Kandahar Airfield, USAF airmen had to recover from their own flash flood. Some folks in tents found themselves knee-deep in water in the middle of the night Feb. 7. The flood waters covered much of the installation, including a supply compound, and sunk many vehicles in mud. (Kandahar flood rescue report and flood clean-up report by SSgt. Angelique Smythe)
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…