Staging Wounded Warriors key to successful transition

(Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on the contingency aeromedical staging facility.)Patients come off the battlefield in all stage of recovery. Some are going home, some need specialized care while others desperately cling to life as medical teams scramble to stabilize them for

General Hostage to lead Air Combat Command

The United States Senate has confirmed Lt. Gen. Gilmary M. Hostage III for appointment to the grade of general with assignment as the commander of Air Combat Command. The 33-year Air Force veteran will assume command at a later date. General Hostage currently serves as Commander, United States Air

Iraqi airmen, USAF advisors celebrate bittersweet PME graduation

More than 160 Iraqi airmen graduated from a two-week long enlisted professional development course taught by U.S. Air Force advisors, here May 28. The students, who learned skills designed to make them more effective leaders, supervisors and managers, were praised by their American advisors as well

Photo essay: Deployed 386th Airmen honor fallen on Memorial Day

Deployed 386th Air Expeditionary Wing honored the fallen but not forgotten servicemembers during a Memorial Day ceremony May 30 in Southwest Asia. Colonel Patrick Mordente, 386th Air Expeditionary Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Richard Turcotte, 386th command chief, laid a memorial wreath as

Handmade quilts cloak wounded warriors in love

Service members categorized as critical care aeromedical transport team patients all leave the contingency aeromedical staging facility with a very special package: a handmade quilt stitched with love. Shortly after the January arrival of the current CASF team, quilts began appearing at the clinic.

438th AEW Airmen commemorate Memorial Day

Major General Mark Graper visits the 380 AEW

Photo story: 380 AEW receives first RQ-4B Global Hawk in Southwest Asia

908 EARS increases fleet as temperatures rise in Southwest Asia

U.S. firemen donate equipment to Afghan firefighters

A U.S. Air Force firefighter and a crew chief instructor teamed up with stateside firefighters 7,000 miles away to donate much-needed equipment to Afghan air force firefighters today, bringing them one step closer to independent operations. Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing and