Airmen equip Afghan hospital with supplies, knowledge

Afghan National Army (ANA) Maj. Abdul Ghafar foreground) waits as his mentor U.S. Air Force medical logistics officer Capt. Jay Snodgrass wheels a pallet of hospital equipment out of their warehouse for installation in a newly built $6.5 million 50 bed ANA hospital on Saturday, August 18, 2007. The state-of-the-art facility is located on the ANA's Hero Camp, just outside of Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan. Major Ghafar is the ANA's 205th Hero Corps warehouse commander. He is also in charge of all logistical support for the 205th. Captain Snodgrass is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and is assigned, as an ANA mentor, directly to the 205th Corps. A team of U.S. military medical technicians and logisticians assigned to the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) headquartered on Camp Eggers, Kabul, Afghanistan, traveled to Kandahar to assist ANA medical technicians from the 205th in standing up their new hospital. CSTC-A partners with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the international community, to plan, program, and implement structural, organizational, institutional and management reforms of the Afghanistan National Security Forces. The 500+ military members assigned to CSTC-A provide mentorship and training to the Afghan National Army and to the Afghan National Police in order to develop a stable Afghanistan, strengthen the rule of law, and deter and defeat terrorism within its borders. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jim Varhegyi)