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  • 321st Air Expeditionary Advisory Group holds change of command ceremony

    Col. Shaun Turner assumed command of the 321st Air Expeditionary Advisory Group from Col. Christopher Pehrson in a ceremony held here at Kirkuk, Monday, June 14. Col. Turner, a command pilot with more than 4,200 flying hours is deployed from the United States Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA, where

  • Bagram C-130 crew airdrops GPS-guided supplies in Afghan valley

    Earlier this month in Afghanistan, a small unit of coalition ground forces found themselves in a tight spot. The unit had already traveled a great distance to support an operation aimed squarely at the Taliban and they'd exhausted their food and water. Navigating through a deep gorge in a

  • 455th ESFS Airman Receives Purple Heart

    On June 11, 2010, Col. Jack Briggs, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, commander, honored Airman 1st Class Giovanni Flores with the Order of the Purple Heart, in front of more than 75 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen."This is a rare but distinguished occasion for all of us," Col.

  • Air Force bids farewell to 586th AEG

    From Iraqi detainee transportation security, outside the wire patrols, detainee visitation and unmanned aerial vehicle operations at Camp Bucca, Iraq, to line haul convoy operations and various support functions, the men and women of the 586th Air Expeditionary Group have made a substantial impact

  • Maintainers say hello, goodbye to multiple missions each day

    Turning wrenches, getting greasy, and suffering through extreme temperatures on the flight line is all in a day's work for C-17 Globemaster III maintainers at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan.But even with a 40 percent increase in operations to accommodate a recent surge in Afghanistan, 376th

  • Maintainers say hello, goodbye to multiple missions each day

    Turning wrenches, getting greasy, and suffering through extreme temperatures on the flight line is all in a day's work for C-17 Globemaster III maintainers at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan.But even with a 40 percent increase in operations to accommodate a recent surge in Afghanistan, 376th

  • Combined service efforts, newly-stocked medication saves Soldier's life

    Recent decisions by joint military medical officials here to outfit paramedics with specialized equipment and to stock medicine rarely-needed by typical military patients in the Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility, saved a serviceman's life after he suffered a heart attack June 9,

  • 62nd ERS reaches 250K flying hours in AOR

    Members of the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield reached a significant milestone recently when the Air Force's remotely piloted aircraft flew their 250,000th hour in Afghanistan at the end of May.The 62nd ERS is home to the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper aircraft at KAF.