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  • Kandahar's Liberty reaches end of mission

    After four years of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions the 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron will complete their MC-12W Liberty operations in southern Afghanistan at the beginning of September, 2014.The squadron was activated here in May 2014, and contributed to

  • The new AFCENT Band arrives

    U.S. Air Force Central Command has a new band. "Touch 'N Go" arrived Aug. 14, and is off and running. They have performed two shows for servicemembers in Qatar, and are now on the road performing for Airmen, joint and coalition partners downrange.The band is comprised of seven musicians deployed to

  • Bomb satisfaction: Bagram Ammo flight epitomizes teamwork

    Airmen assigned to the 455th Maintenance Squadron aren't just practicing total force integration during an exercise or at home, they are performing it for real in a combat zone and they are doing it as the United States Air Force gets smaller. They're proof that TFI works in the real world doing the

  • EC-130H Compass Call aircraft maintenance

    Airmen with the 41st Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron perform maintenance on an EC-130H Compass Call aircraft. The unit is deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., and flies the EC-130H Compass Call aircraft whose primary mission is disruption of enemy command and control

  • Fueling the fight: the air bridge in Iraq

    Aerial refueling gives US aircraft the key advantage of lingering longer in the air as they continue operations over northern Iraq. For the flight crews of the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron operating KC-135 Stratotankers, the mission isn't a lot different compared to the years of

  • Going out with a boom; Air Force EOD mission in Afghanistan concludes

    Since the 2004 inception of the 466th Operating Location Bravo Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight here, there have been twenty rotations of more than 600 EOD technicians who have left their mark in the history of Operation Enduring Freedom. As their last chapter closes in September 2014, the

  • Air advisors turn partners in education

    The young Afghan sergeant yelled out and hurried to the front of a crowded auditorium at the sound of his name. He walked down a line of senior Afghan commanders and U.S. Air Force air advisors and took his place in front of an American. He snapped to attention and loudly called out a reporting

  • Braving the heat, breaking records

    With the doors open temperatures rise well into the threshold to safely cook meat inside the KC-135 Stratotanker as sweat pours down U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Joseph Swartz's face while he triple checks the work his team just completed on the equally hot metal outside. Airmen who perform