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  • CASF Airmen provide total care

    As combat operations continue in the Helmand Province and Coalition Forces strive to eliminate the Taliban influence in the region, a small team of Total Force Airmen from the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Det. 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility are here to assist U.S.

  • Maintenance Airmen ensure rescue missions save lives

    When aircrews and pararescuemen of the 41st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron get a category-alpha alert call, the HH-60G Pave Hawk they use to conduct their mission has to be off the ground in 10 minutes. Here, where rescue crews average five or six alert calls a day, the 43 Airmen at the 451st

  • 2 Airmen start fundraising trend

    Two young enlisted Airmen started a fundraiser last month that had a contagious effect, ending with $5,000 for the Manas Area Benefits Outreach Society children's heart surgery fund.Beginning with a goal of raising about $500 - enough to fund one surgery - the 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness

  • TC Manas helps Nadjeshda support disabled children

    The Airmen from the Transit Center at Manas are helping the Nadjeshda Children's Center, in Kyrgyzstan, by teaching them how to sign, draw, study, work and have fun as children all over the world do."The Nadjeshda Center makes the impossible, possible," said Sam Duechenbi, a German translator for

  • U.S. Ambassador visits Balad's leadership and PRT

    One year after being appointed to the position of United States Ambassador to Iraq, Ambassador Christopher Hill visited Joint Base Balad April 23, 2010.The ambassador made the trip to visit with base leadership to better understand the work that Balad's provincial reconstruction team is doing to

  • 447th Transition of Authority

    The 447th Air Expeditionary Group was realigned from the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing to the 321st Air Expeditionary Wing during the transfer of authority ceremony held here April 24, 2010. Maj. Gen. Joseph Reynes Jr., director, Air Component Coordination Element U.S. Forces- Iraq, was the presiding