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  • Joint team ensures supplies get to war-fighters

    Less than 30 seconds ... that's all it takes for 40 container-delivery-system bundles -totaling 70,000 pounds of supplies - to drop out of the back of a C-17 Globemaster III.As the bundles parachute deploy and descend toward the designated drop zone, Airmen from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift

  • Airmen, Afghans execute reverse medical evacuations

    The aim of military medicine is to get war-fighters healed and back to the battlefield - or to their families - as quickly as possible, but in Afghanistan there are transportation issues.Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group and Soldiers with the Afghanistan National Army Air Corps

  • Joint Hospital caring for war-fighters, Afghans

    Located in the Khost Province, a joint team of Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen are working at the Salerno Hospital to "care for those in harm's way.""This has been a wonderful place to learn, grow and develop my skills as an emergency-medical technician," said Tech. Sgt. William Haley at the 452nd

  • "300 Lives in 30 Days" campaign raises $50k

    An idea that started out as just a bike-a-thon to raise money for children's heart surgeries in Kyrgyzstan turned into a 30-day campaign culminating in the 24-hour "Bike Your Heart Out" event May 18 and 19, 2010. During the bike-a-thon, more than 81 Airmen from the Transit Center at Manas biked more

  • Iraqi, U.S. firefighters seize real world success

    506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters and Iraqi Air Force firefighters have been training together for about two years in preparation for the drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq. On May 20, 2010, however, the teamwork escalated from training to a real world experience when a fire

  • CAPTF armament advisor makes Afghans proud

    Master Sgt. Raymond Rogers Jr. stands and watches two Afghanistan National Army Air Corps weapon loaders put new 12.7 mm rounds into the Yak-B Gatling gun of an MI-35 Hind E attack helicopter. He stands with a smile on his face. The kind of smile a proud parent or teacher could understand. For

  • Afghan forces locate AN-24 crash site, launch recovery effort

    Afghan National Security Forces worked side-by-side during the recovery efforts of the Pamir Airlines AN-24 that crashed in the Salang Pass May 21, 2010.During the 40 sorties to a landing zone about 1,000 feet below the crash site early Friday morning, Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police

  • C-17 Globemaster III Airmen lift off

    More than 100 Airmen with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron have brought their combat airlift professionalism and "combat musk" to missions supporting Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, Southwest Asia and the Horn of Africa."We are excited to be here and look forward to continuing to use

  • 'Defenders' neutralize threat to Bagram Airfield

    Members of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron with assistance from U.S. Army and Marine Corps personnel proved their combat power May 19, 2010, repelling an early morning attack here.The attack began with indirect fire which caused no significant damage, said Lt. Col. James Lowe, 455th