A U.S. helicopter in action in Afghanistan (file photo) (epa) June 2, 2006 -- Sixteen Afghan soldiers are graduating today from a training program at Fort Bliss, in Texas.
The soldiers have spent five months in the United States learning to fly Russian-made helicopters in counternarcotics missions over their country.
(AP)
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