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  • Red Horse: 'Always doing big things'

    Pounds and pounds of concrete, intense heat and lots of anxious "Dirt Boyz" make grueling work on an early Saturday morning in mid-May at Kandahar Airfield seem easy.The men and women of the 809th Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron are working on various projects on KAF and in many regions of

  • New A-10 unit provides close air support

    More than 200 Air Force pilots, maintainers and crew chiefs of the 81st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and the 81st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron arrived on Kandahar Airfield May 11 to provide close air support throughout Afghanistan. They are taking over from the Airmen of the 184th Expeditionary

  • Sportsmanship equals partnership

    View slide showA football or soccer tournament was held here at the air base consisting of three teams from the Iraqi and U.S. Air Force starting May 12. The tournament promoted camaraderie amongst the coalition forces raising morale and friendships."We take it for granted that we play soccer on

  • World War II, Korean War ace passes away May 11

    The Air Force's first double ace in World War II, who later flew in the Pacific Theater and the Korean War, died May 11 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif.Ret. Col. Walker Mahurin, was credited with 24.25 victories while flying in three theaters of war. He became the first double ace in November

  • Air Force officer first American to fly Mi-35 HIND in combat

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Caleb Nimmo is the first American Mi-35 HIND attack helicopter pilot to fly in combat. He is deployed to Afghanistan advising the Afghan National Army Air Corps' rotary wing squadron as part of the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, Combined Air Power Transition Force.The 377th Rotary

  • First in - Last out: Members of first RED HORSE squadron back in Iraq

    Déjà vu all over again - something several members of the 200th RED HORSE Squadron from Camp Perry, Ohio Air National Guard can say.In 2005, the 200th and 201st RED HORSE (Rapid Engineering Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer) Squadrons from Ohio and Pennsylvania Air National Guard

  • 755th Air Expeditionary Group Squadrons celebrate one year with JET Airmen

    May 5, 2010 was a landmark day for the 755th Air Expeditionary Group. This day marked the one year anniversary of the creation of four air expeditionary squadrons whose purpose is to provide joint expeditionary tasked and individual augmentee Airmen.Airmen assigned to the 655th, 755th, 855th and