Linguist helps lighten Intel load

In 2008, Tech. Sgt. David Maez, Task Force Troy data manager here, was notified that he would be deploying to Iraq as part of a weapons intelligence team. Deployed from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Sergeant Maez automatically knew he would not be performing the same duties while in Iraq. "As a

Camp Bucca MCT receives, inspects, moves bar higher

When the Airmen of the 732nd Movement Control Team arrived at Camp Bucca, they didn't just want to do their job. They wanted to do it better. The 732nd MCT controls the ground movement of cargo to and from Camp Bucca -- supplying the fuel, food, medicine and mail necessary to sustain the roughly

809th, 1st Expeditionary RED HORSE team say farewell to Kandahar Airfield

The 809th Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers under the 1st Expeditionary RED HORSE Group have had boots on ground since March 31 and are now leaving Kandahar Airfield this September.  Their tour began March 3 at Ft. McCoy, Wis., where they received

Guardsman promoted during flight

Very rarely do flight orders, which list the names and ranks of the aircrew, have to be altered in the middle of a mission. But on Sept. 25, an exception was made when Tech. Sgt. Nathan Neidhardt was promoted to master sergeant. Instead of the standard pin-on ceremony normally done during their

'Amazing': After weeks of treatment, AFTH releases 14-year-old mortar attack survivor

The all-call came over the Air Force Theater Hospital loudspeakers at 11:45 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2009. It wasn't an emergency, but it prompted dozens of staff members to stop what they were doing and make their way to the long exit hallway. Smiling and chatting, they began lining up on the walls. Over

Iraqi, U.S. Air Force work hand in hand to support drawdown of forces

As the U.S. Air Force continues to support the responsible draw down of forces in the country of Iraq it is also working to prepare the Iraqi Air Force to support and maintain its own flying operations on airfields across Iraq. Because of this, the Iraqi Air Force commander and the director, Iraqi

Father and son Guardsmen deploy to Afghanistan together

Missing family members is a common feeling many Airmen have while deployed, but for two Airmen, serving with the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, that feeling is a little less prominent. This father and son duo, from a family of Airmen, deployed to war together. Lieutenant Colonel Bartley

'Falcon' band lands a performance in Kyrgyzstan

Airman receives Purple Heart after IED blast

When most Airmen were celebrating the Air Force's 62nd birthday, Tech. Sgt. Richard Gibbons woke up dazed and scared in an operating room at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here with doctors and nurses tending to wounds inflicted by the enemy. Sergeant Gibbons, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal

JET Airman delivers faith to Camp Wright

On a forward operating base dominated by Army and Navy people, there is one who stands apart. His name is Chaplain (Capt.) Eric Boyer, and he is a U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to FOB Wright. For the majority of his deployment tour, he was the only Airman on the FOB. That was until a pair of Air