The last US Air Force Raytheon MC-12W Liberty twin-turboprop intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft have left Afghanistan. They departed on October 1 from Bagram air base. MC-12Ws had logged 40,000 missions and 200,000 'green ink' (combat) hours over Afghanistan since 2009. The Bagram-based 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (ERS), which operated the MC-12Ws, has been inactivated and replaced by US Army Task Force (TF) THOR, which includes multiple types of aircraft (mainly modified Beechcraft King Air airframes) fitted with systems to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The withdrawal from Bagram took place one month after the 351st ERS based at Kandahar air base was inactivated.
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机译：美国空军的最后一架雷神MC-12W自由式双涡轮螺旋桨情报，监视和侦察（ISR）飞机已离开阿富汗。他们于10月1日从巴格拉姆空军基地出发。自2009年以来，MC-12W已在阿富汗进行了40,000次任务和200,000个小时的“绿色战斗”（战斗）小时。操作MC-12W的巴格拉姆第四远征侦察中队（ERS）已被停用，由美国陆军任务取代部队（TF）THOR，包括多种类型的飞机（主要是改良的Beechcraft King Air机身），其配备了用于检测简易爆炸装置（IED）的系统。从巴格拉姆撤离是在坎大哈空军基地第351架ERS失活后一个月进行的。
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