New Air Corps Dining Facility saves time, money

The Air Corps Training Center took a big step forward May 22, 2010. The Afghan soldiers began serving lunch at their newly refurbished dining facility. On the first day, they served 159 meals that were cooked at the main ANAAC Dining Facility and trucked to the training center. This has had an

Afghan National Army Air Corps Flight Medic Academy celebrates first graduate

Afghan National Army Air Corps Flight Medic Academy recognized its recent graduates, Master Sgt. Mohammad Rahim Bakhtiary and Sgt. Abdul Malik Nasiri Nezhad in front of their ANAAC leadership and peers at the ANAAC base in Kabul, Afghanistan on May 22nd, 2010.During the six weeks of training in

Worldwide memorial held for fallen TACP

A memorial ceremony was held globally May 26, by tactical air control party Airman to honor a fallen comrade.The ceremony was held precisely at 9:11 a.m. Central Standard Time, in honor of Senior Airman Bradley Smith who is being forever memorialized on the TACP memorial at Hurlburt Field, FL. "It's

Air Force family bikes together on two continents

Though more than 7,000 miles apart, one U.S. Air Force family spent May 23 riding together in a nationwide biking event raising awareness and providing support toward a cure for juvenile diabetes.Lt. Col. Harlan Fangmeyer, Combined Air Operations Center Combat Plans Division deputy chief, rode 20

AFCENT-Iraq planning conference ends

Inaugural Yurt event brings 2 nations even closer

Airmen from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, have embraced the "spirit of Kyrgyzstan" by celebrating the most recent building here: a Yurt, which is the traditional nomadic Kyrgyz home and a structure which now symbolizes the friendship between the United States and its host nation here.The

LNOs: Working for personnel downrange

There are 13 American provincial reconstruction teams operating within Afghanistan's borders.The mission of the PRTs is to assist the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan provide security, governance and development for its citizens.A PRT is not a typical combat zone unit because it

Personnel recovery team lives up to its motto

'These things we do, that others may live.'It's the belief in that motto for the Airmen who operate and maintain Joint Base Balad's "Jolly Greens" that keep them dedicated to the mission.Training exercises, conducted at both deployed locations and Stateside home units, are a never-ending way of life

KC-10 flight engineer reaches 400 combat sorties in Southwest Asia

It took 11 deployments of working on two different airframes and more than 1,900 flying hours to achieve, but Master Sgt. Clifford C. Hughes surpassed more than 400 combat missions as a flight engineer May 21, 2010, at a non-disclosed base here.Sergeant Hughes, a KC-10 Extender instructor flight

Medical aircrew saves lives - one stop at a time

An aeromedical evacuation crew, consisting of two flight nurses and three medical technicians, completed a round-robin mission transporting patients from locations in Southwest Asia to critical care facilities May 13.The 332nd Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight's mission is to move patients