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  • Air mobility squadron expedites the fight

    “You need it, we move it.” That is the saying of Airmen with the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron who enable rapid global mobility every day here at one of U.S. Central Command’s busiest en route stations.

  • Mission continues through Christmas

    The day began like any other at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The sun rose blindingly bright over the mountains. Security forces members grabbed their coffee and their body armor on the way to their patrol vehicles. F-16 Fighting Falcons thundered down the flightline for their quick climb into the

  • Deployed for the holidays

    U.S. service members celebrate the holiday season while deployed as part of the 407th Air Expeditionary Group at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.

  • Deployed squadron flies combat ops 15 hours after arrival

    When the 134th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron arrived at the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in early December, few people outside of the two units would have expected them to generate combat airpower 15 hours after landing.But that is exactly what the Airmen here did.

  • AFCENT helps deployed Airmen reach for dream

    Deployed U.S. Air Force Airmen often miss opportunities afforded to those back home. But personnel specialists at the U.S. Air Forces Central Command headquarters here ensured deployed enlisted Airmen did not miss one opportunity – to pursue their ambitions of becoming part of the first group of

  • Expeditionary group clears way for combat ops

    When the Airmen of the 407th Air Expeditionary Group received notification in mid-October that they were on tap to bed down an expeditionary fighter squadron, they didn’t spare a moment getting ready.For the group to meet the goal of generating, executing and sustaining combat airpower by early