BASH!

To prevent mishaps on the airfield and possible damage to aircraft caused by birds or other small animals, the Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard program here works to prevent incidents by keeping a tight control of the various critters found here. Matthew Gage, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Safety

Predator crashes in southeastern Iraq

Release Number: 150622-01June 22, 2015FOR IMMEDIATERELEASEPREDATORCRASHES IN SOUTHEASTERN IRAQAnAir Force MQ-1 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft crashed in Iraq atapproximately 8:30 a.m. local time, June 22, 2015.Theaircraft was flying a combat mission when positive control of the aircraft waslost.

Father and son spend Father’s Day in deployed location

 Deployed accommodations havechanged drastically in the last 30 years. In the 80’s and 90’s handwrittenletters and rooms filled with payphones were the only ways to communicate withloved ones from home.  “When I went to Desert Storm the first time, we gotour phone call home and we were in country

AUAB All-Stars and Qatari military score big during soccer scrimmage

Soccer and كرة القدم have completely different pronunciations here in Qatar.  However, the word ‘partnership’ does not. SeveralU.S. and Qatari military members competed in a 70 minute soccer match tocelebrate the U.S. Army 240th birthday June 14, 2015 at Al Udeid Air Base,Qatar.On a regularbasis

Munitions Airmen provide the means for combat airpower

Munitions Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron make an impact here every day by building the weapons needed for the combat airpower mission.Every munition loaded onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft here is provided by the 455th EMXS Munitions Flight. Without these

Living the American Dream

On Christmas day in 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow forthe last time. People across the country took what jobs they could find, gettingpaid a fraction of what they made before as the local currency became nearlyworthless. The burden of the country’s uncertain direction weighed

Daesh fears Coalition airpower

At the Coalition airpower hub for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the Central Command Area of Responsibility, the commander and Coalition partners know they are making a difference in the fight against Daesh.“We know from our intelligence that Daesh [Islamic State] fears Coalition

Silent Sentry meets a decade of interstellar combat support

29 years ago, as a form of protest against cable companiescharging fees to satellite dish owners, a man by the alias of Captain Midnight intrudedinto a live HBO telecast of ‘The Falcon and the Snowman’  utilizing equipment from where he worked at ateleport.  This was a form of

When it's hotter than Hades, leave it to Hercules

Blood, Sweat, Tears: crew chief’s pour everything in to OIR

(Editor’s note: Due to safety and security reasons,last names and unit designators were removed.) At the beginning of each shift, Staff Sgt. Oren grabsa pair of green and orange foam hearing protection packaged in a little whitebox; he rolls them in to a fine point and puts them in his ears. His