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US Armed Forces Camp Stronghold Freedom / Uzbeckistan Karshi-Khanabad Air Base K2 Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Silver Challenge Coin military's premier Tier 1 SpecialThis coin is 1 1 2 inches in diamater. Karshi Khanabad, better known as K2, is an air base in southeastern Uzbekistan, just east of Karshi. It is home to the 60th Separate Mixed Aviation Brigade of the Uzbek Air Force. Between 2001 and 2005 seven thousand United States Department of Defense personnel were assigned to the base,[5] also known as K2 and "Camp Stronghold Freedom", for support missions against al Qaeda in neighbouring Afghanistan. The