Lieutenant-Colonel Bianca: A Situation Report on the Osprey in Afghanistan

02/21/2010
On February 9th, 2010, "Second Line of Defense"' followed up its earlier interview with the Osprey squadron just before its deployment to Afghanistan last November with a new one, this time directly from Afghanistan, with Lieutenant-Colonel Bianca, the Osprey Squadron Commander. Accompanying this interview is a slideshow of Osprey operations…

The Tigers: Part of the “Musketeer Task Force” in Afghanistan

02/01/2010
Born in 1976 from a Franco-German initiative and deployed for the first time in a theater of operation last July, three French Tiger helicopters from the Pau-based "5e RHC" (5e Régiment d’Hélicoptères de Combats) are now part of the "Musketeer Task Force" deployed at Kabul airport (along with three EC725…