U.S. AFCENT Band 'Celtic Aire' plays at Joint Base Balad, Iraq

Photos: Desert sunset over Southwest Asia

Photo essay: Deployed honor guard practices in Southwest Asia

Members of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing honor guard practice drill and ceremony procedures at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia on Jan. 19, 2010. The group is comprised of deployed Airmen that work, on average, 12 plus hours each day in their indivual work units and volunteer for the

Remembering Dr. King

All jacked up

POL flight starts what could be 'benchmark' process

The 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron petroleum, oil and lubricants flight has just implemented a process for filtering fuel that the Director of Logistics, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support general wants to make a "benchmark."This first-in-the-AOR

Transit Center basketball team loses, but wins friends

The Transit Center at Manas basketball team lost to the Academy of Physical Culture and Sports 72-55 here Jan. 19.This was their second game against the APCS, and their second loss."This team is a lot more experienced, they're a professional team, they practice twice a day, six or seven days a week,

Killing them softly: E-3 Sentry air battle manager flies final combat mission in deployed theater

It's late-night on Jan. 9 and an E-3 Sentry comes into view to dozens of Airmen gathered on the flightline at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia. After a 13.4-hour mission over the U.S. Central Command theater of operations performing surveillance of enemy forces, the tires of the airborne

ECS works to improve SATCOM on KAF

As part of a theater-wide satellite realignment, the 451st Expeditionary Communications Squadron has redirected one of two satellite dishes to a new satellite in order to provide a redundancy and more bandwidth. Previously, both satellite dishes were pointed to the same satellite. Now, they're

New fighter unit arrives on KAF

More than 300 Air Force Guardsmen of the 104th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron arrived on Kandahar Airfield to provide close air support throughout Afghanistan, relieving the Airmen of the 354th EFS who have since returned home to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.Fighter jets from the Maryland Air