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Post by jimtheeagle on May 26, 2010 4:36:14 GMT 12
I am trying to find out some more details of Operation Tui in 2003, which I believe was the deployment of a C-130 to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (the Afghan Campaign). This predates and is separate to the deployment of the NZ-led PRT in Bamiyan. Does anyone know:
- the dates
- what base was used
- which Herc
- any other interesting info about it?
An Air Force photographer apparently won a prize for pictures taken on this op, but I can't say I've ever seen any...
Jim
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Post by phil on May 26, 2010 7:01:09 GMT 12
An Air Force photographer apparently won a prize for pictures taken on this op, but I can't say I've ever seen any... Jim I was an Air Force photographer in 2003... I can't recall anyone winning a prize for photos from Kyrgyztan. Being there were only around 12 of us in the trade back then, it would be something that I would remember if they told anyone. It would have been around then that a photographer went to Kabul with the COMJ, but most of those images were classified an were not released. |
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Post by jimtheeagle on May 26, 2010 7:25:59 GMT 12
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Post by phil on May 26, 2010 8:40:13 GMT 12
James was in my recruit course flight, he's avionics. He's still in.
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Post by jimtheeagle on May 27, 2010 0:38:37 GMT 12
I found a little more about it in the NZDF annual report for 2003:
"An NZDF C-130 Hercules aircraft, support crew and an air loading
team deployed to Kyrgyzstan on 23 Jun 03 as NZ’s contribution
to the International Security Assistance Force in and around
Afghanistan."
Do we know when they returned? Were they based at Manas or somewhere else?
I am also looking for the operation name and dates for the P-3 deployment to the Middle East in 2003 if anybody knows it.
Jim
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Post by lesterpk on May 28, 2010 0:55:17 GMT 12
Task Group Troy, started May03 - finished about 9 months later.
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Post by jimtheeagle on May 28, 2010 22:24:52 GMT 12
Hi Les,
Thanks - that's very useful.
Jim
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Post by steveo on Aug 23, 2021 12:22:44 GMT 12
Hi Jim the Eagle
We were based at Peter J Ganci Air base, in close proximity to Manas Airport, in Bishkek.
04 & 05 were the two airframes used during this deployment.
Interesting info - Several of us were awarded the USAF Meritorious Acheivement Medal.
The photograph in question is shows one of the team holding the TGs maskot on his shoulder, waving good bye to the C-130.
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Post by camtech on Aug 23, 2021 19:34:30 GMT 12
Over the next few days, with little else to do, I'll have a look at Air Force News of the period and see what pops up.
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