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  • Medical centers, MABOS bring hope to 'Heart Hospital'

    Call it a cardiopulmonary bypass unit or a heart and lung machine but now the Children's Heart Ward of the Kyrgyz Scientific Research Institute of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation can call one of them, their own.Officials visited the heart ward Thursday to donate the machine that was acquired

  • Host nation students go 'hands-on' during base tour

    More than 40 high school students and staff members from the American school downtown got a closer look at deployed servicemembers and operations during a tour of this desert air base, Feb. 24. The students saw various aircraft and facilities on base while learning about the mission and meeting U.S.

  • Kuwait celebrates 50/20 anniversary with coalition forces, parade

    Kuwait celebrated their 20th year of liberation from Saddam Hussein's invading forces and 50th year of independence from Great Britain with several coalition countries, including the U.S., by staging a very large military parade, Feb. 26.In 1991, 33 nations joined the U.S. to form a coalition during

  • Iraqi defenders finish intense training, stand up armory

    More than 45 U.S. Airmen and Soldiers watched in excitement as the first group of Iraqi defenders received recognition during a graduation ceremony, Feb. 22, here. "Today was historic for the Iraqi air force,' said Maj. Mechille Braden, the base transition team officer in charge. "We saw the first

  • 386th AEW participates in Kuwait 50/20 event

    February marks major milestones for one of the Unites States' allies, the Nation of Kuwait. Throughout the entire month, the people of Kuwait have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of their independence from Great Britain as well as 20 years of liberation from Iraq. The 50/20 celebration, which

  • 455th EAPS wins ACC's 2010 Verne Orr Award

    The 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron here was recently named Air Combat Command's winner of the 2011 Verne Orr Award. Named for the 14th Secretary of the Air Force, the award recognizes an Air Force active duty, guard or reserve unit that makes the most effective use of its human resources.

  • AAF learn fundamentals of entry control procedures

    Members of the Afghan Air Force practice basic apprentice security force training and entry control procedures at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the Afghan Air Force's "Big Air School," an AAF base, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 24.The focus of the class is to give AAF Airmen basic procedures and knowledge of

  • Landing zone safety officers trained at austere location

    At an austere airstrip here, Air Mobility Liaison Officers are conducting landing zone safety officer certification training to U.S. and coalition forces throughout Afghanistan unsecured dirt landing strip outside the protection of conventional forces. Twenty-six students from the U.S. Air Force and

  • Last frontier for tactical air control

    Weather can often be the deciding factor on an aircraft landing. As soon as the weather system moves out, operations generally resume their normal tempo. That is, unless the airstrip in question is in the middle of an Afghan mountainside. These mountainside airstrips at austere locations have