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  • Air Force Base-Defense Airmen highlighted in new television documentary

    After their successful 2013, six-episode series on Air Force Combat Rescue, a National Geographic Channel camera crew went back to Afghanistan for a 2014 two-hour special. Inside Combat Rescue: The Last Stand, provides a real-time look at the experiences of the Airmen, Soldiers and Coalition Forces

  • USAF, Jordan F-16 pilots partner during Eager Lion 2014

    From May 25 to June 8 during Exercise Eager Lion, pilots from around the world are taking to the sky over Jordan to learn how fliers from other countries operate during contingency operations. Among these aviators are F-16 Fighting Falcons pilots from the U.S. Air Force and Royal Jordanian Air

  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visits Bagaram

    U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visited Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan June 1, 2014. Hagel spoke to the troops deployed to Bagram, thanked them for their service and answered their questions.

  • California ANG provides C-130 support for Eager Lion 2014

    At any moment, Airmen from the 115th Airlift Squadron may be called upon to respond globally with their C-130J Hercules aircraft to any number of contingencies. Stationed out of at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., the squadron was most recently called upon to support Exercise

  • Operation proper exit at Bagram

    Wounded Warrior visited Airmen at Craig Joint Theater Hospital during Operation Proper Exit. The program is intended to gain a sense of commonality and pride for soldiers severely injured in the line of duty.

  • Saving lives one IFAK at a time

    Despite the drawdown of service members in the area of responsibility continues the need for life saving equipment continues. More than 50 volunteers joined the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group medical logistics flight to assist in recertifying individual first aid kits at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar,

  • Combat arms instructors train expeditionary Airmen

    Combat arms training instructors at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan train Airmen on small arms who travel outside the Airfield.  CATM instructors are in charge of fixing Air Force weapons, inspecting weapon inventory and assisting the Army with firing range operations.To view all the photos click on

  • 13th AMU maintainers support Eager Lion 2014

    No matter where they are in the world, maintainers from the 13th Aircraft Maintenance Unit have one goal: to keep F-16 Fighting Falcons in the air. Based at Misawa Air Base, Japan, the unit will spend 18 days at an air base in northern Jordan participating in Exercise Eager Lion 2014, During that

  • Strike Maintenance

    F-15E Strike Eagle maintainers from the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron provide combat-ready aircraft in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. The strike aircraft maintenance unit is comprised of more than 140 maintainers from Royal Air

  • A Beacon in the Storm

    Tech. Sgt. David Gray could only watch as she leaned forward and softly kissed him goodbye. There was simply nothing more that could have been done. Feeling helpless, standing bedside with his mother, every imposing inch of his muscular frame had just been rocked. The aftershocks had yet to be felt,