Audio by Petty Officer 2nd Class Erick Holmes | AFN Afghanistan | 09.20.2011
Provincial Reconstruction Teams, Civil Affairs, and other groups spend their time in Afghanistan building relationships with locals, usually in their villages and provinces. However, one Soldier on Bagram Airfield is creating those same bonds without leaving base. Petty Officer Erick Holmes tells us more. Spc. Amy Stewart, Military Police, Oklahoma Naional Guard, Ardmore, Okla., Originally......
Audio by Staff Sgt. Rebecca Goodwin | AFN Afghanistan | 09.20.2011
The 2-18th keeps watch in the Kundoz region. Staff Sgt. Rebecca Goodwin gives us a glimpse of what they do. (Please replace previous version of story with this one, critical info was left out)...
Audio by 1st Lt. Timothy Irish | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 09.20.2011
Sgt. Alberto Perez, S-6 Platoon Sgt., 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, Headquarters and Service Company talks to Michael Gold of Victory Partners Radio, about the specifics of his job as a Platoon Sergeant and Switchboard Operator, his current living conditions and compares his deployments to Iraq with Afghanistan....
Audio by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Shelander | AFN Afghanistan | 09.20.2011
Muslam Haqiq Shah is a small boy who was born with his bladder outside of his body. He's now reunited with his family thanks to Maj. Glenn Battschinger, the U.S. Army civil affairs officer who discovered the boy in Jalalabad. He arranged for Muslam to receive corrective surgery in New Jersey....
Courtesy Audio | U.S. Coast Guard District 1 | 09.19.2011
BOSTON - The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 48-year-old fisherman from commercial fishing vessel approximately 90 miles southeast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Sept. 19, 2011. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Northern New England received a call at approximately 8 a.m. via marine-band VHF channel 16 from the 44-foot fishing vessel Rachel T, homeported in Portland, Maine, reporting that the......
Audio by Sgt. Andrew Milner | AFN Afghanistan | 09.19.2011
Counterinsurgency operations (COIN) with Task Force Attack on Forward Operating Base Tarin Kowt take on different dynamics as they are an aviation Task Force. Their commander, Lt. Cmdr. Rod Hynes, explains....
Courtesy Audio | Defense Media Activity - Air Force | 09.19.2011
Package about a Modern Radio Board Installation at Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan. Produced by Lance Cpl. Casimir Krul.
Courtesy Audio | AFN Korea | 09.19.2011
The 8th Army band usually plays music in their ACU’s or ASU’s but for the Dragon Hill Lodge’s October fest the band got out of their daily uniforms and let their hair down. Airman Ross Whitley reports. Soundbites from Staff Sgt. Eddy Nubine, Saxophone Section Leader 8th Army Band....