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  • Bagram Airman reaches 3000 flight hours

    A Bagram weapons systems officer assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing reached a major flying milestone Jan. 24, 2010, when he logged his 3,000th flying hour. Lt. Col. John Bunnell, 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron commander, a weapons system officer deployed from Royal Air Force

  • Rescue unit to receive tents, ramp for better performance

    The operations tempo for combat search and rescue and medical evacuation in Helmand Province is very high.Airmen are continuously working to find ways to enhance their operations in order to be more effective while supporting the theater's CSAR mission, especially on the bare base of Camp Bastion in

  • 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