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Strategic Airlift Capability conducts first flight in support of ISAF

September 30th, 2009
Members of the Strategic Airlift Capability conducted its first mission in support of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan Sept. 29. 

The first ISAF-related flight by SAC's operational component, the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Papa Air Base in Hungary, delivered materiel to Mazar-e Sharif, to supply Swedish troops in the Afghan theater.

The HAW has already flown several operational missions, including flights to support Kosovo Forces, but the first trip to Afghanistan was an important milestone for the SAC program, which was launched three years ago in order to acquire three C-17 Globemaster III, to meet strategic airlift requirements of the 10 participating member nations.
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