 From Soju's radio and television, this is the Army Now. It's an early morning on Kandahar Airfield and Major Judah Lyons is getting ready for the day's mission. I'm pre-flighting the aircraft and checking to make sure that it's all the components are there and that there's nothing loose or missing and as we get ready to go fly this morning. He's a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade. This is my third deployment and today we're gonna go out and fly a mission with the Afghan Air Force with the Kandahar Air Wing. The plan is to first meet up with the MI-17s, then fly to pick up Afghan soldiers and police. The pilots will then drop the troops off of the landing zones to continue their ground mission. As we transition over and the Afghans take more of a lead role, they did most of the hard work and we just followed along as the caboose at the end. That's the Army Now from Soju's radio and television.