ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
11February2011 7:40pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: KABUL, Afghanistan – Twelve members of the Afghan Air Force, including the first female student and two civilians, graduated from the basic airman intelligence 
course at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the Afghan Air Force's "Big Air School", Feb. 3.
Attending the graduation was Brig. Gen. Barat, the Kabul Air Wing commander, who shared a few words with the graduates.
“The Afghan military is lucky to have the International Forces here helping to train and equip us,” explained Barat. “That is the best thing for the Afghan armed forces and classes such as this because with each graduating course we become better equipped as a military.”
The class is based on NATO standards, so all material was written and taught to support NATO air operations. Each of the graduates completed 210 hours of classroom instruction covering more than 50 topics.
“Topics range from critical thinking and analysis, mission planning, classified information protection and security, to the creation and delivery of a professional military intelligence brief in support of Afghanistan Air Force flying operations,” said Tech. Sgt. Lee Marsters, Afghan Air Force Intelligence adviser, with the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan/438 Air Expeditionary Advisory Group. (read full report)
