Feb. 12, 2009 ROCK SOLID WARRIOR Senior Airman Joshua Hoshauer Job: Operations Intelligence Analyst Home unit/base: 421st Combat Training Squadron, Fort Dix, N.J.How do you support the mission here? I provide intelligence support for Force Protection operations both internal and external to Ali Al-Salem AB. How many times have you
Feb. 10, 2009 JASDF Redeployment Group bids final farewell The last of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force Redeployment Group members lowered their colors for the last time before departing for Japan February 10, bringing an end to the final chapter of the JASDF's Iraq Reconstruction Support Airlift Wing mission after almost five years. More than a hundred
Feb. 9, 2009 AFMC commander visits Southwest Asia Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Materiel Command commander, visited the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Feb. 9 as part of a multi-base tour of bases in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. The trip is the general's first to the AOR since taking command of AFMC in November. "I'm here to
Feb. 8, 2009 ROCK SOLID WARRIOR Senior Airman Zane R. Coss Job: Force Protection Controller Home Station/Unit: 374th Communications Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan. Camp Yuasa DetachmentHow do you support the mission here? As a force protection controller, I am responsible for the coordination and facilitating of all force
Feb. 3, 2009 Camp Bucca Airmen make a difference with smiles Every day as the dawn breaks over the Iraqi desert, hundreds of Iraqis line up to visit their relatives at the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca, which holds more than 10,000 detainees. Every day before that sun rises, Airmen from the 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron prepare for
Feb. 3, 2009 ROCK SOLID WARRIOR Senior Airman Chad HollowayJob: Aircraft Structural Maintenance Journeyman Home unit/base: 7th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas How do you support the mission here? I support the C-130E/H Aircraft by evaluating, fabricating and repairing aircraft structural components,