Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Mohammad Dawran (January 20, 1954) was

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of the

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.http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2010/01/04/ministry-gets-firefighting-vehicles He was promoted to the post in 2005 by

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Abdul Rahim Wardak General Abdul Rahim Wardak (; Pashto/ prs, عبدالرحیم وردگ; born 1945), an ethnic Pashtun, is an Afghan politician and former Defense Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed on December 23, 2004, by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

and the Commander-in-Chief

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. His permanent post was in

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, the largest air base in

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and one of the largest air bases in the region. The new commander of the Afghan Air Force, Amanuddin Mansoor, was appointed in December 2021. He was born in the Nijrab District of

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of Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Tajik. Dawran became an air force pilot in the 1980s and was one of two people selected for the 1988 Soyuz TM-6, the sixth crewed spacecraft to visit the

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. Instead of Dawran,

Abdul Ahad Momand Abdul Ahad Momand (; born 1959) is a Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan citizen to journey to outer space. He became one of Soyuz TM-6 crew members and spent nine days aboard the M ...

was chosen, which became his second space journey. Dawran is married and has six children.

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