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  • Secretary Donley visits deployed servicemembers

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley met with deployed servicemembers here, Aug. 26, and visited base facilities during a brief stop on his tour of the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. He began his visit by presenting the U.S. Air Force with six battle streamers to accompany the Air

  • Dental Airmen fill faces with smiles in AOR

    Just like troops and cargo movement is vital to the operations in Afghanistan, the Dental Clinic is a core part of the mission here that when missing could create a "cavity" in the smooth process of operations. The Airmen of the 376th Expeditionary Medical Group Dental Clinic ensure members deployed

  • Airmen reign, shine over weather operations in Iraq

    Two weather Airmen used their weather equipment and knowledge to provide on-the-job training to seven Iraqi air force weather lieutenants here Aug. 16. The training's focus revolved around the set-up, up-keep and function of a tactical meteorological observation system, a portable device which

  • Air Force Pararescueman crowned Strongest Man at Bagram Airfield

    It was not a hulking mass of humanity that won the Strongest Man at Bagram Airfield competition, but a soft-spoken Air Force staff sergeant, whose mission in life is to save life.Staff Sgt. Keith Aussant is a pararescueman with the 56th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, Bagram Airfield, and of the 22

  • Iraqi Air Force brings ISR capabilities online

    Intelligence collection has become a valuable capability for the Iraqi Air Force in its push to provide security and stability. Unique to the IqAF, the King Air Squadron 87 here boasts the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities necessary for detecting and deterring insurgent

  • RAMCC teaches Iraqis to touch the sky

    Beginning Aug. 25, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority will independently conduct day-to-day civil aviation operations, thanks to the direction of an organization stationed here and in Southwest Asia. The Regional Air Movement Control Center has worked for more than half a decade to assist the ICAA

  • AFCENT's largest security forces squadron defends Bagram

    There are no American Soldiers guarding the gates of Bagram Airfield. None in the towers. None patrolling the perimeter. And not a single American Soldier searches the thousands of people and vehicles entering the base. But there are plenty of Airmen. Several hundred of them, in fact. The 455th

  • Airmen assist Iraqis with helicopter pilot training

    This is the third in a three-part series about Airmen deployed to Camp Taji, Iraq, where they assist in training members of the Iraqi Air Force in helicopter maintenance, gunner and piloting skills. Iraqi pilots love patches. They have as much pride in their squadrons as their American counterparts

  • Air Force civil engineer awarded Purple Heart from sniper wounds

    High in the mountains of Afghanistan's Laghman Province, Capt. Clint Townsend was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received by sniper fire Aug. 4.Colonel James Meersman, 755th Air Expeditionary Group commander, pinned the medal on Captain Townsend, the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team

  • Flying hospital staff gives wounded fighting chance

    At any given moment, a call can come in here requiring an entire aeromedical evacuation staff to stop what they are doing and begin preparing to care for the wounded and sick headed their way. With game faces on, the staff starts pulling supplies, alerting additional crewmembers, getting updates