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  • 455th EAMXS keeps Bagram in flight

    It’s the kind of weather that makes you happy if you are able to complete your mission in doors under the cool air of an air conditioning unit.Its 100 degrees, the sun is blazing and a group of 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airmen are enduring the heat as they repair a C-130

  • When the blood runs dry

    Attention on the FOB, Attention on the FOB…This is how it all began.A call to attention from the giant voice alert system heard across the base.All heads are up, silence fills the Dining Facility and at the end of the announcement, the pattern of marching feet exiting the building and heading to the

  • Airman 1st Class Gregory Myers: Force Protection with a smile

    Airman 1st Class Gregory Myers is a long way from the rainy days at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. A pavement and construction journeyman by trade, Myers has spent the first two years of his Air Force career operating heavy machinery and earning the title of “Dirt Boy”, a nickname

  • Making the difference on the battlefield

    Living by the motto “That others may live” Air Force pararescue specialists ensure that they are trained to the highest standards to conduct personnel recovery operations. It is these highly skilled individuals that provide the only dedicated U.S. personnel recovery assets in Afghanistan.Recently

  • Tech. Sgt. Ginger Bell: Resiliency plus morale equals mission ready

    Warrior ethos has long been a part of the Air Force culture. It exhibits a hardiness of spirit, and moral and physical courage.Airmen deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, not only invoke these attributes but build them in each other daily.This series will introduce you to the Bagram Warriors

  • Healing the wounds of freedom

    Lt. Col Chance Henderson, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group orthopedic surgeon, wraps gauze around the patients legs after surgery, June 10, 2016, at Craig-Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Henderson has performed multiple surgeries on the patient in an effort to save

  • 955th AES activates under 455th AEW

    On June 1, 2016 the 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron was deactivated and redesignated as the 955th AES. Under the redesignation the 955th AES will now fall under the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group.Previously the 966th AES fell under the 466th Air Expeditionary Group located at Al Udeid

  • MQ-9 crashes in Afghanistan

    A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 assigned to the 451st Air Expeditionary Group, part of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, crashed Feb. 20 at about 9 p.m. Kabul time, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

  • Haulin' a Herc

    Senior Airman Eric Randall, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, sits in the cockpit of a C-130J Super Hercules from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron as it is towed to the flightline for an engine test at Bagram Airfield, Aghanistan, Jan. 12, 2016. The 455th EAMXS

  • Viper maintainers ensure combat-ready aircraft

    Master Sgt. Jim Anderson, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, removes and replaces a jet fuel starter on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2016. The 455th EAMXS provides combat-ready aircraft to the air component