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

Iraq equipment heads home

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