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Colonel Al Meinzinger, Sergeant Patrice Jodoin and Chief Warrant Officer Kevin West, cut the ribbon for the official handover of the air wing equipment to the Operation Athena Mission Closure Unit on Aug. 1...

On Aug. 18, 150 airmen, airwomen and soldiers marked the end of the Joint Task Force Afghanistan Air Wing...

Chief Warrant Officer Jean-Pierre Morin became the first member of the Royal Canadian Air Force to take on the crucial job of Force sergeant-major of the Multinational Force and Observers...

The sprawling Kabul International Airport complex includes civilian and military air terminals, air cargo centres, and International Security Assistance Force facilities...

Colonel Al Meinzinger, the last commander of Canada’s Air Wing in Afghanistan, and members of his team returned home from Afghanistan early this morning...

Three search and rescue technicians from several SAR units recently came together in Westlock, Alta., for the Canadian National Parachuting competition...

It was clear by 2008 that the flow of information supporting counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan needed to grow in both quantity and quality...

One after another, three CH-147 Chinook transport helicopters and five CH-146 Griffon tactical helicopters from Task Force Freedom touched down and completed their final mission in Afghanistan...

Less than a week after assuming command of Task Force Libeccio, BGen Derek Joyce travelled to Poggio Renatico in northeast Italy to visit the men and women of the task force’s Air Coordination Element...

At the time of the tragic First Air Flight 6560 plane crash in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, the Canadian Forces, through Canada Command’s Joint Task Force (North), was conducting Operation Nanook 11...

Members of Task Force Libeccio took to the soccer pitch for a three day friendly tournament between the national contingents deployed in Trapani for Operation Unified Protector...

There may be a language barrier between Italians and Canadians, but during the Agira War Memorial parade held on 28 July 2011, the message was clear...

CF-18 Hornets from 3 Wing Bagotville, Que. took to the air off the coast of Goose Bay, N.L. in support of Operation Nanook 11 from Aug. 6 to 9, 2011...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command welcomed a new deputy commander on Aug. 15 during a ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado...

The Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing officially ended its operations today at Kandahar Airfield today...