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  • 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

  • Balad medical units consolidate

    As patient numbers decrease and U.S. servicemembers begin to leave Iraq as part of the Responsible Drawdown, the medical units on JBB no longer require the space they once needed to support combat operations.The medical agencies are consolidating into one central location - a joint medical campus

  • Coalition Airmen observe ANZAC Day

    Airmen from six partner nations gathered at the Memorial Plaza here for a dawn service to observe ANZAC Day. A national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day is commemorated on April 25th every year by both countries to honor members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

  • U.S. Air Force musicians join in ANZAC Day ceremony

    Six Airmen of the U.S. Air Forces Central Band performed hymns, bugle calls and the national anthems of Australia and New Zealand at a dawn memorial service here in commemoration of ANZAC Day.A national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day is commemorated on April 25th every

  • Kirkuk Airmen facilitate relationship building between Iraqi firefighters

    In an effort to foster professional bonds between members of the Province of Kirkuk Fire Department (PKFD) and members of the Iraq Air Force Fire Department (IqAF/FD), squadron members from the 506th Air Expeditionary Group and members of the Iraq Training and Advisory Mission--Air Force facilitated

  • Iraqi Kids Day strengthens bonds between locals, servicemembers

    Servicemembers at JBB heard an unfamiliar noise on base April 24, 2010 -- the sound of children's laughter.The first Iraqi Kids Day of the year served as part of the ongoing base effort to positively engage the local populace.Although past events of this kind had an underlying theme to teach the

  • Afghan Air Corps Security Gets Stronger

    The Afghan National Army Air Corps Security Forces graduated 28 new Afghan defenders from a security forces training course here April 8, 2010.The course has been in existence for two years, only this time, the course was conducted by Afghans with little assistance from NATO partners.The new Afghan

  • Air Corps Kabul Squadron Flies First Medical Evacuation Mission

    Kabul Air Wing's C-27 squadron conducted its first medical evacuation mission on April 24, 2010 flying from Mazar-e-Sharif to Kabul to support the Afghan Army's 209th Corps.Three patients received care from the Air Corps' flight medics and after their arrival in Kabul were turned over to the