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Adopt A Village
 Air Force Capt. Nathan Schalles, commander of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, poses with local children after handing out school supplies in the village of Bakhshi Kyhal, Afghanistan. Members of Air Force Village at Bagram Air Base delivered clothes, food and school supplies to the village under an “Adopt-A-Village” civil affairs program. The trip was the first of monthly visits planned to the village three miles northeast of Bagram Air Base. Schalles is normally assigned as the operations officer of the 824th Security Forces Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. U.S. Air Force by Tech. Sgt. Adam Johnston  Army 1st Sgt. Steve Casaceci, assigned to D Company, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, talks to village elders in the village of Bakhshi Kyhal, Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Milton H. Robinson  Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Operations Group pass out candy to children in the village of Bakhshi Kyhal, Afghanistan. The unit is participating in a program called Adopt-A-Village, in which the unit helps to improve the way of life in a village of their choice by providing such items as clothing, shoes, food and school supplies. When involved in the Adopt-A-Village Program the unit is required to visit the village at a minimum of once a month to provide assistance. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Milton H. Robinson  Air Force Staff Sgts. Todd Weingeroff (left) and Reggie Bunting, both of the 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, are preparing to unload boxes of humanitarian rations in the village of Bakhshi Kyhal, Afghanistan, Jan. 11, 2003. The unit is participating in a program called Adopt-A-Village, in which the unit helps to improve the way of life in a village of their choice by providing such items as clothing, shoes, food and school supplies. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Milton H. Robinson  Air Force Staff Sgts. Todd Weingeroff (left) and Reggie Bunting, both of the 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, pass out boxes of humanitarian rations to an Afghan man in the village of Bakhshi Kyhal, Afghanistan.
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