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After The Battle: The golden hour
Editor's Note: This is the first in a four-part series about the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing's medical response capabilities and the various teams within the wing who play a role in the care and transportation of combat-wounded troops throughout Afghanistan."The Golden Hour" refers to the hour immediately following a serious injury and is the most
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3/14
2013
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CAOC Combat Ops Space Cell: Defending CENTCOM critical SATCOM links
More than 22,000 miles away, spinning silently through the vacuum of space, is one of the most critical components to air, space and cyberspace superiority today; a satellite.The mission to defend and protect the operability of that satellite rests a little closer to home, at the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Combined Air and Space Operations
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3/07
2013
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Bagram dietician feeds the fight
Man cannot live on airpower alone, and at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here, the 455th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron Nutritional Medicine flight works tirelessly to keep their charges fed."We are the only nutritional medicine flight in Afghanistan," said Capt. Lindzi Howder, flight officer in charge. "We feed a lot of people."The
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3/06
2013
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Deployed chaplain assistant lives to help others
"Aleric is Greek. It comes from a Visigoth king and means, 'helper of mankind or noble ruler.'"Tech. Sgt. Aleric Hebert never really considered the meaning of his name until he became a chaplain assistant. Now it seems kind of appropriate. Hebert is currently serving as a command-level chaplain assistant on this, his fifth deployment in 13 years of
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3/06
2013
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Airmen and Afghan villagers work together to repair well
U.S. Airmen and local Afghan elders gathered around a broken water well in the heart of a small village outside of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Together they traded ideas on how to fix the pump and bring the fresh groundwater back to the village.Members of the 777th Expeditionary Prime BEEF Squadron took on the task of fixing the multiple well
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3/04
2013
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Deployed AWACS crew provides critical battle space capabilities
Rows of workstations and machines, dotted with more buttons than one can imagine, click and buzz with activity. The occasional bump of turbulence and the faint howl of the wind outside are the only reminders that this technical workspace is traveling 360 miles per hour at an altitude of 30,000 feet. It's not a typical military command and control
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2/19
2013
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Deployed Comm Airmen dig it
Most Airmen don't think of communications as the guys who get dirty using shovels and digging ditches.However, members of the 272nd Engineering and Installation Squadron based at Camp Marmal are digging the first trenches before laying down the fiber optic backbone for nearby Camp John Pratt.The 272nd E&I team are tasked with constructing the
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2/13
2013
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FAST members provide much needed security at remote airfields
An aircraft commander has plenty to worry about while flying in potentially hostile environments: What are the landing conditions like; is there security at the landing site; are my crew and the aircraft safe; do I have enough fuel; do I have any mechanical issues? Thanks to U.S. Air Forces Central Command fly-away security teams, or FAST, at least
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2/04
2013
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Joint force does bloody good job
It's the source of life.The U.S. Army 432nd Blood Service Detachment is responsible for providing blood and blood products throughout Afghanistan.While the 432nd BSD receives blood from stateside, other products must be replenished through donations from deployed personnel.Blood platelets, for example, are what give blood the ability to clot and
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1/24
2013
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Defend the Installation: Towers of Power
Editor's Note: this is the third of a three-part series on how the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group safeguards the people who live and work on Bagram Airfield.There is a group of Airmen in the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron who get a view of Afghanistan that few ever see.They man the multiple defense towers that ring the base
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1/15
2013
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