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  • Pardun their deployment

    In the last few weeks of 2010 Staff Sgt. Bethany Pardun, working in her office at Barksdale Air Force Base, had a choice. She was told she could deploy to either Guam or Afghanistan. She chose Afghanistan- even thought it didn't have the beaches, the mission intrigued her and she felt that she could

  • Doing business with the Transit Center: Industry Day Spring 2011

    In Fiscal Year 2010, the Transit Center at Manas contributed over 42 million dollars to Kyrgyzstan's economy through purchases of services, commodities and construction from local companies. In Fiscal Year 2011, the Transit Center is on pace to match or exceed that amount.To find out how they can do

  • Iraqi air force leaders thank U.S. advisors, celebrate 80th anniversary

    U.S. Air Force and Iraqi officials opened a state-of-the-art air operations center as the Iraqi air force celebrated its 80th anniversary April 21. The grand opening of a $9 million AOC kicked off a series of festivities celebrating the anniversary of Iraq's air force April 22, 1931. Not long after

  • Maintainers of all uniforms keep helicopters flying

    Many people may not think of the Air Force if they look out onto the rows of helicopters that stretch across the ramps of Kandahar Airfield. Most of the machines belong to the U.S. Army.A handful, however, belong to the helicopter crew chiefs of the 451st Expeditionary Air Maintenance Squadron. Many

  • Afghanistan's largest AEW changes command

    Command of Afghanistan's largest air expeditionary wing changed hands in a flightline ceremony here, April 22, 2011, when Brig. Gen. Darryl Roberson accepted the reins of the 455th AEW from Brig. Gen. Jack L. Briggs II.Maj. Gen. Charles W. Lyon, 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan

  • Maintainers of all uniforms keep helicopters flying

    Many people may not think of the Air Force if they look out onto the rows of helicopters that stretch across the ramps of Kandahar Airfield. Most of the machines belong to the U.S. Army.A handful, however, belong to the helicopter crew chiefs of the 451st Expeditionary Air Maintenance Squadron. Many

  • 386th EOD keeps Marauders safe, unexploded ordnance at bay

    There are many objects buried under the sand in the desert. All it takes is a couple of really big sandstorms to bring whatever is buried to the surface. Soldiers deployed here alongside the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing discovered this when they spotted an unexploded ordnance here April 15. U.S.

  • AFPC officials deploy team to improve deployed personnel support

    Air Force Personnel Center officials here are deploying a team to Southwest Asia at the end of April to examine personnel services and support for deployed Air Force members.The six-person Total Force Service Center-Forward team will continue to conduct customer need assessments and provide direct

  • First Mongolian air advisory team departs Afghanistan, new group arrives

    The first Mongolian air advisory team to participate in NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan's efforts in building the Afghan Air Force recently handed over responsibility to a new group of troops at the AAF Base in Kabul.Spending six months training Afghan Airmen on how to service Mi-17 transport