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  • Col. Mike Wilson looks over the mud wall of Kala-I Janghi near Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan. The ancient fortress was the site of a bloody Taliban uprising in 2001. Colonel Wilson is deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Orville F. Desjarlais Jr.)

    Afghan fortress site of Taliban's last deadly siege

    Just a few minutes drive from where an Air Force embedded training team is mentoring Afghan National Army soldiers is the site of the Taliban’s last deadly siege. It is also the location where the first American died in the war against terrorism following Sept. 11, 2001; where John Walker Lindh -- known as the American Taliban -- was captured; and
  • Seen in the rearview mirror of a "follow me" truck, a C-17 Globemaster III is guided to a parking spot at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 16, 2006. The transient alert section of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron has the dubious task of finding parking spots for some 650 aircraft per month that fly cargo and passengers into the air base in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    Transient alert Airmen provide Bagram some staying power

    Imagine parking hundreds of cars and trucks in a convenience store parking lot. It would take ingenuity and creativity, kind of like stuffing people into a phone booth. Now, imagine parking those cars if they were the size of a C-17 and the task of the transient alert team at the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing here becomes a little clearer. “It’s
  • BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- An Army bugler plays Taps during the closing moments of a memorial ceremony held here May 13 by the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron in remembrance of 18 Airmen who were killed trying to end the USS Mayaguez incident in 1975. (Photo by Master Sgt. Orville Desjarlais Jr.)

    455th ESFS memorial ceremony remembers 18 fallen comrades

    Members of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron paid tribute May 13 to 18 Air Force security forces Airmen who were killed in a helicopter crash. On May 13, 1975, 51 security forces members joined in the rescue operation for the USS Mayaguez. At 9,000 feet, a helicopter carrying the Airmen over flew an area near the Thai-Loation border

  • Cable television, Internet being installed in B-Huts

    Army and Air Force Exchange Service concession employees are installing cable and internet service to B-Hut residents.The installers began stringing up cable lines earlier this week to the security forces huts and will continue throughout Camp Cunningham. “It’s a quality-of-life issue,” said Chief Master Sgt. Raymond Welton, 455th Expeditionary
  • BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Lt. Col. Stephen Chappel, an A-10 pilot deployed to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing here, performs a walk-around inspection of an A-10 Thunderbolt II May 13 in preparation for a mission over Afghanistan. The A-10 fires a 30-milimeter canon, and can carry up to 16,000-pounds of ordnance for close air support missions to support troops on the ground. Colonel Chappel is an Air Force Reservist deployed from the 442nd Fighter Wing, based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. (US Air Force photo by Maj. David Kurle, 455 AEW/PA)

    Active-duty, Reserve units take over A-10 flying mission

    A mix of active-duty and Reserve units started landing their A-10 Thunderbolt IIs May 13 to take part in Air Expeditionary Force 1 and 2. The 81st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here is composed of the 81st Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany — the lead unit — and the 303rd Fighter Squadron from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., an Air
  • BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Aghanistan -- An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 442nd Fighter Wing, Whiteman AFB, Mo., flies a combat mission for Operation Enduring Freedom over Afghanistan May 18. Whiteman A-10s are deployed to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing and are flying combat air support missions for U.S. and Coalition forces on the ground. (Photo By 1st Lt. Jeff Bellenski)

    Bagram A-10s strike cave

    During a successful air strike May 8, Coalition aircraft killed four enemy extremists and destroyed a truck and cave complex in the Bermel District of Paktika Province. Coalition Forces suspect other insurgents may possibly be buried in the rubble.Prior to the strike, a joint combat team of Afghan National Army and U.S. ground forces observed
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