As well as flying and fighting, the US Air Force has also been training the fledgling Afghan national army air corps in the C-27.  A group of 8 US Air Force members, pilots and loadmasters, are training a group of 7 Afghans in the hopes that they will soon form their own air force.

The report on the training squadron notes that one of the pilots attended US Air Force pilot training, “spending over a year training in the T-6 trainer at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.”  US pilots normally fly the T-6 for only a few months, though the Afghan student’s curriculum was probably geared very specifically to the C-27 he would eventually fly.