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  • BEARS build up the Transit Center at Manas

    There are BEARS on the Transit Center.Instead of causing alarm, they're making every Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine more comfortable.They're the Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources civil engineer team, based out of Southwest Asia and traveling throughout the area of responsibility to build up

  • Photo essay: KC-10 departs for combat air refueling mission

    A maintenance Airman directs a KC-10 Extender from its parking area as the plane moves out for a combat air refueling mission during operations on the flightline at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 22, 2009. The KC-10, assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron and

  • Airmen, Sailors wrap up three-day Bahrain International Airshow

    Servicemembers from the U.S. Air Force and Navy completed their mission to highlight U.S. Airpower at the inaugural Bahrain International Airshow held in this small island-nation Jan. 21 to 23The three-day event included static displays of fighter jets, transport planes and light aircraft along with

  • Maintainers keep airplanes flying during Bahrain International Airshow

    Pilots without maintainers are just pedestrians with sunglasses and cool jackets.This is a humorous take on the relationship between pilots and crew chiefs, but one based on fact because without proper maintenance, planes don't fly and pilots stay on the ground.Here at the inaugural Bahrain

  • Photo essay: Maintainers prepare a KC-10 for departure

    Maintenance Airmen prepare a KC-10 Extender for a mission during operations on the flightline at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 22, 2009. The KC-10, assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron and deployed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., is one of Air

  • Middle East deputy assistant SecDef visits NAMAB

    The deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East visited Iraq Training and Advisory Mission- Air Force at New Al-Muthana Air Base Jan. 11, 2010.Mr. Colin Kahl focused his attention on the transition of Iraqi control during his visit. Iraqi forces continually assume more responsibility

  • Airmen support inaugural Bahrain International Airshow

    More than 100 Airmen from across the Air Force traveled to the small island-nation of Bahrain in the Middle East to represent U.S. military forces at the Bahrain International Airshow Jan. 21.The show is the first of its kind for the country and is especially remarkable because the field here was