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  • A rabbi, a priest and a pastor

    “A rabbi, a priest and a pastor walk in to your office…” What sounds like the opening of a good joke, is the unique reality of the service members who are deployed to this Southwest Asia base.With countless service members deployed to Al Dhafra Air Base, it is a challenge to tend to everyone’s likes

  • EOD and Fire light up the night

    A vehicle burns during a firefighting training exercise August 10, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Emergency Services worked with the 379th ECES Explosive Ordnance Disposal team to conduct realistic fire training scenarios. (U.S. Air Force

  • 15 hours, 51 miles, 51st birthday in the desert of Qatar

    It’s hot. I mean, really hot. And I’m out running in it.It’s July in the desert, and there is no comfortable time to run outside. Even though its 10:15 p.m., the heat of the day is still radiating up from the pavement at over 100 degrees. I can feel it on my face, and my arms. But here I am, on mile

  • Aircraft maintenance captain gets down to business

    Sometimes you have to be willing to step outside of your comfort zone, roll your sleeves down, put that face shield on, and get down to business, literally.  Deployed Captain Erin Walsh, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron officer in charge with the KC-10 Extenders, did just that when

  • U.S. and Royal Saudi air forces continue counter-UAS partnership

    Protecting U.S. and allied forces against unmanned aerial system attacks continues to be a top priority in the U.S. Central Command theater of operations. In response, U.S. Air Forces Central and partner nations are continuing an ongoing series of integration missions through the summer of 2021.

  • KC-10 flexes to move mission forward

    U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft, typically used in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility for aerial refueling missions, recently flexed to streamline a major movement of cargo, personnel and F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft across the theater.Approximately half of the 494th Expeditionary

  • Hard crew concept promotes efficiency and morale

    Depending on their job or tasked mission in the Air Force, Airmen may or may not be deployed as a “hard” crew with their teammates from home. In the case of the EC-130H Compass Call flight crews from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Ariz., they were fortunate to deploy together to Al Dhafra Air