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  • Servicemembers celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Kandahar Airfield

    Approximately 300 people joined together in honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 18 on Kandahar. "It gave people in a deployed environment a chance to not only honor Dr. King but to come together collectively," said Tech. Sgt. Kenneethia Kennard, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing Equal Opportunity

  • CASF, AE team to be stood up on Camp Bastion

    A two-person advance echelon team is working to stand up the contingency aeromedical staging facility and the aeromedical evacuation operations team on Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan's deadliest province for U.S. and NATO forces, by Feb. 1.With the potential of more incoming troops as

  • C-17 Det in Kyrgyzstan a key part of Manas mission

    The arrival of a C-17 detachment here has what leadership calls "clear, synergistic effects" on both the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing and the 816th and 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron missions. Carrying myriad cargo into Afghanistan, these beautiful birds are agile enough to withstand rugged

  • 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