French Military Starts Second Phase of OEF Support

French Military Starts Second Phase of OEF Support
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2006/20060612_5390.html

{EXCERPT} , By Capt. Géry Balcerski Special to American Forces Press
Service

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, June 12, 2006 - The French military
started its second phase of air operations in Afghanistan on May 26.

Dubbed "Operation Serpentaire," for Serpent-Eater, French aviators
have performed close-air support and tactical reconnaissance missions
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and the International Security
Assistance Force. This phase of the operation will support coalition
efforts until October.

A contingent of 21 French servicemembers here have coordinated French
air assets over Afghanistan as part of Combined Joint Task Force 76.

In its first phase, from May 5-25, the French carrier air group, based
at Camp Cherry-Beasley here since April 8, participated in both OEF
and ISAF missions. They performed about 7 percent of OEF missions.

This phase ended with the departure of the French aircraft carrier
Charles de Gaulle from the Indian Ocean on May 25 and the arrival of
French air force fighters in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Aircraft departing from the Charles de Gaulle flew 500 miles with four
mid-air refuelings en route to their areas in the Kandahar and Uruzgan
regions of southern Afghanistan.

In addition to the Bagram French Detachment, French teams are also
stationed in Kabul and southern regions of Afghanistan as well as at a
base of operations in Southwest Asia.

(French Capt. Géry Balcerski is assigned to the French Air Force
Detachment Bagram.)

Related Sites:

Combined Joint Task Force 76 [
http://cjtf76.army.mil/main.html

International Security Assistance Force [
http://www.afnorth.nato.int/ISAF/

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