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455th EAES creates mobile ICU for in-flight care
An intensive care unit is usually a sterile environment – white hospital walls, pristine floors, bright fluorescent lights, dozens of medical professionals. The intensive care unit that the 455th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron operates out of the back of a C-130J Hercules is a different scene entirely. It’s dark and cramped. The only light is from
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3/03
2017
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FAST protect aircraft, aircrew
Airman 1st Class Trenton Clark, 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Fly Away Security Team member, watches over a C-130J Hercules and its aircrew at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2017. FAST members go through additional combatives and aircrew training and are prepared to provide security for aircraft, aircrew and cargo at austere
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3/03
2017
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774th provides tactical airlift throughout Afghanistan
Senior Airman Brandon King, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron loadmaster, checks for ice on the wings of a C-130J Hercules during a flight from Camp Bastion to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2017. The 774th EAS provides tactical airlift capabilities in the Afghan theater which often require non-standard or outsized cargo and personnel
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3/03
2017
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CMRE enables retrograde, consolidation of equipment
The Central Command Material Recovery Element conducted a joint inspection of cargo returning to the U.S. from Kabul Feb. 14, 2017 at Hamid Karzai International Airport.A four-person team from CMRE, along with 368th Military Police Company customs agents, forward deployed to HKIA from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan to conduct the inspection to ensure
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3/03
2017
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Viper AFE specialists keep pilots safe
Airman 1st Class Louis Mendoza, 455th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment journeyman, inspects a pilot’s G-Suit Feb. 2, 2017 at the 79th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron operations building at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Part of preparing a plane for flight is making sure it's equipped with supplies for any situation.
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3/03
2017
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Getting airfield back up and running
The 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron plow the fighter ramp at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Feb. 4, 2017. The 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadrons and ECES de-iced aircraft and cleared snow from the runway so the F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 79th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron could continue their missions - flying multiple
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3/03
2017
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Original ‘Vulture’ shares story with 21st century warfighters
“Primitive” is the word he uses to describe flying in a B-24 Liberator during World War II.The bomber wasn’t pressurized and its open gunner-turret windows to the fore, aft and on both wings made the aircraft frigid for its crew members. They had to bundle up as best they could to stay warm, but according to the “Rosalie May” tail gunner, retired
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3/03
2017
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Civil engineers team up to repair runway
Three career fields from the 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron worked together to repair a strip of runway Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 2017 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.The repair required replacing a section of concrete with polyethylene pads after it was damaged by constant aircraft traffic. That traffic caused a barrier cable, used for
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2/02
2017
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Vipers dominate skies in Afghanistan
The roar of an F-16 Fighting Falcon is distinctive. For coalition troops in contact with the enemy, it is a welcome sound. For terrorists, it’s a frightening one. That sound shakes Bagram Airfield as an F-16 takes off, one of several that evening, the glowing afterburner climbing quickly into the sky. The 79th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at
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1/25
2017
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Airman returns to service after 20 years, deploys
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- “For anyone that has ever been in and gotten out, I don’t know that you ever stop feeling that pull to come back. That you ever stop missing it. “It’s always a part of you. It just kept pulling at me and pulling at me.” For newly-promoted Master Sgt. James Dullaghan, an HH-60 Pave Hawk crew chief with the 455th
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1/21
2017
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