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Chaplain (Capt.) Myung Cho and his assistant Staff Sgt. Frank Rivas, play the guitars and sing a song during a worship service with Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, July 21. Cho visits the Airmen prior and during their shifts as much as he can to raise their morale and offer a variety of worship services. ( U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade) Traveling Chaplain raises morale of security forces Airmen
Comprehensive Airmen Fitness pillars are important to maintain at both home station and abroad, and Chaplain Capt. Myung Cho and his assistant Staff Sgt. Frank Rivas, travel day and night across Bagram Air Field, to ensure the Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group are spiritually fit.Prior to a chaplain deploying they
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Mickey Laskowsky, 380th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron food services technician, uses a 6K forklift to lift a steel supported tub of cooking oil an at undisclosed location in Southwest Asia July 3, 2013. Laskowsky is the main forklift operator for the 380th EFSS where he uses it to deliver water to 58 different stops a day. He is originally from Pittsburgh, Penn., and is stationed with the 171st Air Refueling Wing with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jacob Morgan) Now that's what I call high quality H20
The members of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing drink approximately 31,200 bottles of water per day. Ninety percent of the 380th's water is delivered by one Airman. With just two years of experience in the Air Force, Airman 1st Class Mickey Laskowsky is the operational side of the wing's annual two and a half million dollar water program to ensure
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Staff Sgt. Dominique Freeman, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron precision-guided munitions crew chief, places an empty ammo box as a marker in the ammo storage yard at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, June 13, 2013. The 455th EMXS ammo flight is responsible for providing munitions and countermeasures, such as chaff and flare, to U.S. Air Force units as well as providing storage facilities for the other military branches here. Freeman is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. and is a native of Jacksonville, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade) Welcome To Ammo Country
This is part one in a series of three articles discussing the role of the 2W0 career field, ammo. This is an in-depth look of a munitions journey from its storage location to the processing line.The sound of munitions rattling under an A-10 Thunderbolt II as it departs, breaks the stillness of a quiet morning on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.While
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Joseph Harrell, 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Fabrication Flight chief, left, watches and guides Cadet Matt Waddel in his first welding experience at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia June 27, 2013. Waddel was visiting the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing as part of the Air Force Academy’s Deployed Operations program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jacob Morgan) Cadets find a new perspective on their future
Some have said that the key to being a good leader is staying focused on the mission and taking care of people. Future officers of the Air Force are taught this lesson in school and from time-to-time are put in positions to exercise it. What 12 Air Force Academy cadets came to realize while visiting the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing here, is there
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U.S. Air Force Maj. Sandra Nestor, tactical critical care evacuation team nurse, 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2-149 General Support Aviation Battalion Medical Evacuation, inserts an IV into a sick military working dog to treat for dehydration during a mission, Super Forward Operating Base, Afghanistan, May 14, 2013. MEDEVAC teams specialize in moving and treating U.S. and coalition forces who are injured and risk dying without immediate emergency care. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marleah Miller) From E.R. to Black Hawk helicopter, Air Force nurse 'returns' to Army
Blood spurts from a gaping wound. Broken bones pierce through skin. Screaming, shock, chaos - some things never change for emergency medical personnel.But, for Air Force Maj. Sandra Nestor, a critical care nurse deployed with the 2-149 General Aviation Support Battalion, a typical day is very different from the ER she works in at her homestation,
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Senior Airman David Kitchen 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron, aerial transportation journeyman, holds a first aid kit he has used many times, when aiding to passengers emergencies at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. In the past month, Kitchen has used skills acquired from his civilian emergency medical technician job and military self-aid buddy care training, to save three passengers lives here. Kitchen is deployed from the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio National Guard and is a native of Mount Sterling, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade) S-A-B-C, the difference between life and death
"I wouldn't really consider these lifesaving gestures, I was just doing what I am trained to do," said Senior Airman David Kitchen, 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron, aerial transportation journeyman.In many circumstances training acquired in the military helps Airmen save lives, but for Kitchen, his civilian job skills also contributed to
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Members of the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron fold and dismount an AN/TPS 75 radar at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia May 29, 2013, in preparation for relocating the antennae to its new home atop a newly constructed 55 foot tower. The goal of the project was to protect the AN/TPS 75 radar from the harsh wind and heat of the region. The 727th EACS consists of the 255th Air Control Squadron from Gulfport, Miss., with augmentation from eight Air National Guard units and an Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officer/Assistant team from 69thAir Defense Artillery Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas. The 255th ACS has deployed four times in support of contingency operations overseas in the past ten years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Seaton Hixson) Guard units come together to protect Southwest Asia
A RQ-4 Global Hawk is flying across Southwest Asia with a mission of surveying more than 90,000 square miles of open water. Without eyes, the Global Hawk must fly hours weaving in-and-out of thousands of commercial, private, and military jets in the area; but how do the operators know what is where?A joint combined force of Expeditionary Air
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Chad Sprong, 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron precision-guided munitions crew chief deployed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, connects the wiring harness to a miniature air-launch decoy non-explosive bomb May 22, 2013, for software updates. The ammo shop has the capabilities to build munitions for nearly any aircraft in the area of responsibility. Sprong is a native of Selina, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Timothy Boyer) Ammo: Building bombs, winning wars
A jet sets off for a warzone. The maintainers did their part to make sure it was mission ready. The pilot has done her part, training and staying fit to fly for a mission such as this.   She spots her target, locks on and prepares to fire, but as she does there are no munitions. Fortunately this scenario is fictional and will never happen, because
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Chief Master Sgt. Shelina Frey, command chief for U.S. Air Forces Central Command, jokes with U.S. Army Spc. Skylar Lopp at the customs customer service desk at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, May 14, 2013. Lopp is a customs border agent for the 304th Military Police Battalion, Detachment 5. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barnett) AFCENT Chief “Big Mama” Frey leads, serves Airmen with Big Easy smile
Born and raised in a southern city filled with culture, a place people travel to from all over to enjoy its many delights, Air Force Central Command's command chief stays true to her roots despite serving her second straight year thousands of miles from home."When Katrina hit, it was very devastating to hear the newscaster call the New Orleanians
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jessie Johnson, 3rd Infantry Division military working dog handler, and her dog, Chrach, rest after successfully completing explosives detection training, at Forward Operation Base Pasab, Afghanistan, April 24, 2013. Chrach is trained to detect the odor of explosives. Johnson, a native of Reading, Pa., has been a MWD handler for four years and is deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marleah Miller) Dog handler’s homegrown values, environment mirror her K-9 career
It's 6 p.m. and Chrach (pronounced Crash), a military working dog, is anticipating his evening meal. His handler has been feeding him twice daily for more than a year, since the two became a team. She is used to this routine, but not because she is his handler. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jessie Johnson, a military working dog handler currently assigned
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