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12/31/2009 - KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- When the crewmembers of 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight first deployed to Kandahar Airfield in August, they knew they would be transporting many wounded warriors throughout Afghanistan. What they didn't expect was to be transporting some of those patients in nothing but their underwear. Hospitals here just had no clothing available. "These guys are giving their lives, their buddies are dying, some of them are giving their limbs in combat, and I think they deserve to be treated much better than being transported in just their underwear," said Master Sgt. Scott Wilkes, a 451st...

Afghan children proudly wear some of the donated clothing, organized by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Brian Curtis. Photo courtesy of New Zealand Provisional Reconstruction Team U.S. Air Force Sgt. Helps Clothe Hundreds Bamiyan Province will be a much warmer place this winter thanks to the massive undertaking supplying clothing for hundreds of people in the area. By New Zealand Provisional Reconstruction Team BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Nov. 23, 2005 — One U.S. Air Force member and his wife launched “Operation Brian’s Compassion” to clothe needy Bamiyan villagers. Tech. Sgt. Brian Curtis, assigned to New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team Bamiyan security,...