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  • Reserve commander delivers cheer to Afghans

    The frigid Afghanistan winter was made a little less harsh for Afghan villagers near here, thanks to thousands of pounds of humanitarian relief supplies delivered by a visiting Air Force leader. Lt. Gen. John Bradley, commander of Air Force Reserve Command, arrived here December 1 with more than 25,000 lbs. of supplies for Afghan families,
  • Leaflets urge Iraqis to help capture armed insurgent militia members

    More than one million leaflets were pushed out of a 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules over ten designated drop zones urging local citizens to provide information on three top leaders of an armed insurgent militia in Iraq. The leaflets are the wanted posters of the region and were requested by a Polish Psychological Operations unit
  • RIPRnet continues to evolve

    Two years after its standup, RIPRnet has a very different mission and much greater reach than originally planned. Radio-over-Internet Protocol Routed network is a key communications network for both ground convoys and air operations throughout Iraq, consisting of 15 core sites and 37 ground station consoles. "In September of 2007, we finished the
  • Airpower Summary for December 2

    Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Dec. 2, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle dropped Guided Bomb Unit-12s against a vehicle transporting enemy
  • Airpower Summary for December 1

    Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Dec. 1, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle employed a Guided Bomb Unit-31 against a bunker in Deh Rawod.
  • Airpower Summary for November 30

    Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Nov. 30, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles employed Guided Bomb Unit-38s to suppress enemy activities near
  • Airpower Summary for November 29

    Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Nov. 29, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles conducted an air strike against enemy targets with a Guided Bomb
  • A Defender's family reunion

    The night before Thanksgiving, Staff Sgt. Malik Calhoun, 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, K-9 handler, finished playing his last flag football game and hurried over to the Phantom Center just before midnight. There, a new team of Defenders who had just arrived to the base were in-processing, and there Sergeant Calhoun saw his little
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