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Getting around a country with diverse terrain like Afghanistan
can sometimes be a challenge.
Marine Corporal Bradley Hanson reports on how Army aviators
move troops around the country with ease.
[Hanson] The soldiers of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade
at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan,
are responsible for many different types of missions.
Today, says Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Hill, was one of the easier ones.
Today was a hamkari ring route.
We were just conducting pax moves
and taking personnel and equipment to several FOBs in the local area.
[Hanson] Specialist Brock Larkins says getting these soldiers and civilians
to these local FOBs via air is usually much safer.
[Larkins] You don't have to worry about any ground attacks usually.
Even though under small arms fire,
we can evade it much better than any ground troops would.
The only real threat to us is surface to air RPGs or surface to air missiles,
and that threat seems to be pretty low right here.
[Hanson] Hill said there are other advantages over using a convoy
to get from point A to point B.
[Hill] For one, there are less people on the road, so the IED threat--
less people that could possibly become injured.
Two, speed--saves time for a lot of people
because a lot of people are on a time schedule they have to meet.
And for equipment-wise, it's the fastest way to get equipment from A to B.
[Hanson] Soldiers from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade
fly many other types of missions, including resupply and MEDEVAC missions.
Marine Corporal Bradley Hanson, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.