Afghan JTACs have trained to call support from A-29s aircraft, MD 530 helicopters

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US commanders in Afghanistan are pleased with the local forces' progress towards providing their own air support with newly supplied aircraft. "We saw great strides in the Afghan Air Force's [AAF's] capability to integrate with ground forces in southern Afghanistan," Colonel Larry Burris, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division [Air Assault], told reporters during a 6 September Pentagon briefing.