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Image: Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter firing flares over Afghanistan MOD 45158742

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Description: A Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter firing flares over Afghanistan. After thirteen years supporting operations in Afghanistan, all Royal Air Force Chinooks have left Afghanistan and returned to the UK. Since the end of combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2014, three RAF Chinooks were retained in the country to assist British troops in non-combat roles, but in March 2015 they went home. Synonymous with operations in Afghanistan over the last thirteen years, the Chinook Force flew over 41,000 hours, extracted 13,000 casualties and its crews have been awarded numerous gallantry awards, including twenty-three distinguished flying crosses for bravery in the air.

Organization: RAF Object Name: AUAB_25032015_037 042 Category: MOD Supplemental Categories: Equipment, Aircraft, Helicopters, Chinook, Support, Operations, Theatres, Afghanistan Keywords: Royal Air Force, RAF, Equipment, Aircraft, Transport, Helicopter, Chinook, Operation, Op, Campaign, Herrick, Afghanistan, Afganistan, Helmand, Flares Country: Afghanistan
Author: Cpl Lee Goddard
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