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Friday, October 15, 2010

Netherlands extend Apache helicopter deployment in Afghanistan

AH-64D Apache GunshipFive of the Dutch Apache attack helicopters deployed in Afghanistan that were to return by mid-October will now stay until mid-November.

The helicopters will be used for giving air assistance to ISAF partners and the Dutch Redeployment Task Force, the unit tasked with retrieving Dutch materiel from the area of operations.

The helicopters’ stay in Afghanistan was extended because some of the last large Dutch convoys were postponed as a result of damage to the road between Tarin Kowt and Kandahar.

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