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  • Senior NCO nominated for Spirit of Hope award

    Master Sgt. Bubba G. V. Beason, of McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., is the 305th Maintenance Squadron, 305th Air Mobility Wing, Air Mobility Command's 2010 nominee for the Spirit of Hope Award. He is a first sergeant assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing here."He is the first Air Force first

  • MC-12 begins mission in southern Afghanistan

    The 451st Air Expeditionary Wing welcomed one of the newest members of the Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance weapons systems to Kandahar Airfield March 29.The MC-12 Liberty aircraft is a manned special-mission turboprop aircraft designed for ISR and brings a different

  • Kirkuk vehicle maintainers keep mission going at Mosul

    For two vehicle maintainers attached to Kirkuk Regional Air Base, their job responsibilities extend beyond this base. They work at Forward Operating Base Diamondback in Mosul, Iraq, as maintainers for three aircraft cargo loaders. Tech. Sgt. Greg Marchand and Airman 1st Class Chris Kuczynski, both

  • USACE Turns over Iraqi Army post in Ancient Iraqi City

    With a snip of the ceremonial ribbon, Dhi Qar's Governor Aziz Kadum Alwan Al Ogheli and Ur Location Commander Brig. Gen. Hassen welcomed more than 300 guests to view the $27 million renovation and new construction at Camp Ur Location Command & Regional Training Center near Nasariyah, Iraq, March

  • U.S. military contributes to Kyrgyz de-worming conference

    Three U.S. military medical experts including two colonels from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, attended a conference here on mass de-worming April 2 to contribute American health care concepts to the program this country has successfully started and plans to continue.Navy Capt. James

  • LRS breaks 2 of their own records

    The 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron broke two of their own records in March, for most passengers moved and most fuel pumped here, at the "gateway to Afghanistan."The passenger terminal pushed through approximately 50,000 multi-national, U.S. and coalition troops, and the petroleum,

  • Safety and economic stability might be a transaction away

    Walk in to a store, pick an item, walk to the register and hand the cashier a debit card. It's a common scene the world over. There are some places, however, that don't conduct transactions through electronic funds transfers, that still do a majority of their business with physical cash. Iraq is one