The flight to FOB Shank was uneventful - except the landing. Fixed wing aircraft in Afghanistan stay very high till the last possible second then drop like a stone towards the runway. I can only ...

Air Mobility Command released the results of its investigation into the Jan. 23, 2012, mishap involving a C-17A Globemaster III that landed at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan - Deployed to one of the most dangerous areas in Afghanistan, a movement control detachment resupplies hundreds of troops in the field. Every morning ...

Coalition forces and civilians living on Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan, have an added layer of security in the form of the Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar System and the Land ...

I found myself with half an hour to kill while waiting for a flight from Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktia Province, Afghanistan to FOB Shank in neighboring Logar Province. The airstrip ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan – Army Sgt. 1st Class Mica Snell and his brother, Army Staff Sgt. Justin Snell were born and grew up in Derby, Kan. Less than two years apart in age ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan — It’s not that Maine Army National Guard Spc. Seth Adams was nervous. It’s just that when you’re about to climb into the turret of the lead gun ...

The air traffic controllers at FOB Shank oversee the movement of hundreds of aircraft every day without the benefit of much of the advanced technology available to their civilian counterparts in ...

[Kabul] The 30-minute ride from Forward Operating Base Shank, occupied by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, is nerve-wracking. This is Logar Province, an area of central ...

Unidentified Afghan civilians broadcast a radio program from the radio studio at Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, south of Kabul. The U.S. military is training Afghans to ...

Forward Operating Base Shank, in Logar province, is known among soldiers as "Rocket City" for the number of rockets, mortars and artillery shells that rain down, day and night.

LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – First Squadron, 17th Calvary Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade are on their way out. They are in the final stages of handing over Forward Operating Base Shank ...