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  • 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

  • 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,

  • 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

  • Running for the King

    About 150 servicemembers, Department of Defense civilian and contract personnel, and coalition partners took part in the Armed Forces MLK run Jan. 18, 2010 at an air base in Southwest Asia. The 10- and 5-kilometer run, which traversed the base's sometimes rough and uneven terrain, was held in honor