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  • Aerial Port delivers people and supplies

    The Airmen of the Aerial Port at Kandahar Airfield are among the busiest people on base. They are some of the last people re-deployers see before they fly home.Senior Airman Kody Williams described watching soldiers eagerly pressing their way through the passenger processing line to their flight. He

  • 386th ESFS garners DoD antiterrorism award

    For the fifth year running, the 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron was named the Department of Defense Best Antiterrorism Program for a deployed unit. The Antiterrorism Recognition Program was established by the assistant secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity

  • Total Force makes carrier pigeons obsolete

    In World War II, it could take a carrier pigeon about six hours to fly from London to Paris. Fortunately, communication is much faster in modern warfare thanks to specialists such as the 451st Expeditionary Communication Squadron at Kandahar Airfield. Master Sgt. Bob Rondash, 451st AEW engineering

  • New Afghan Airmen pass final hurdle before becoming quick reaction force

    Afghan Air Force security forces personnel conducted mounted and dismounted patrol drills with the help of NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan at the AAF Base in Kabul March 2.The drills were the culmination of a four-week training course and the final validation prior to the course's student's

  • Photo essay: Starlifter performs for 386th AEW Airmen

    Starlifter, U.S. Air Forces Central Expeditionary Band, traveled to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing and performed a variety of classics  from across the genres to include jazz, pop, classic rock and much more for Rock members Feb. 25. For more photos from the visit check out the slideshow.

  • Airmen improve capability of Iraqi medical clinic

    With only three people working in a building no larger than most apartments in the states, the Iraqi medical clinic on Ali Air Base is constantly operating at maximum capacity to provide care for more than 700 Iraqi airmen."Healthy airmen are essential for the Iraqi Air Force to successfully

  • Airman helps Iraq assume civil air sovereignty

    An Airman was given the task of defining the limits of the sky. Six months later, he returns home with that job well on the path to completion.Col. Ted Davis, 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force - Iraq senior airspace planner, has prepared thousands of miles of airspace above this Middle East