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  • Deployed Couple Eclipses the 100 Combat Mission Milestone

    For flyers in Vietnam, flying one hundred combat missions earned them a badge of honor and a ticket home. Although it is not their ticket home, Staff Sgt.'s Chris and Debbie Villanueva, 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, both recently received their badge of honor for flying 100 combat

  • Happy Hooligans fly into sunset on final takeoff

    The Happy Hooligans, who operate C-21 missions across U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility, completed the final combat sortie of their rotation here July 27. This marks the completion of the first deployment into a combat zone for the North Dakota Air National Guard. The Hooligans,

  • Airmen ‘step back’ as Iraqis take control of mission support

    U.S. Airmen don't run dining facilities for the Iraqi military here. They don't pump fuel; they don't make runs to ammunition storage points. At least not any more. All of these daily tasks that require the utmost attention to detail and dedication to supporting mission readiness are handled

  • Airmen build ties with Iraqi families

    Forty-five Airmen volunteered to visit and distribute donated items to local families here July 24 as part of the Sather Air Base Good Neighbor Program. This program, which is sponsored by Sather's Rising Six, is made up of volunteers who take a trip once a month to distribute care packages to Iraqi

  • POL fuels U.S., Iraqi forces in Baghdad

    The 447th Expeditionary Logistic Readiness Squadron's Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant Flight receives, issues, stores and performs quality control on aviation and ground fuels, and provides high quality, clean, dry fuel to not only 10 Army forward operating bases throughout Iraq, but also the Iraqi air

  • Teamwork key to construction of communications hub

    A week ago, this vast expanse of land represented particles of dust, rocks, hardened dirt and scrubs located on the other side of Kandahar Airfield's perimeter, mirroring the landscape of this portion of southern Afghanistan. Today, the area is bustling with Airmen dragging cables and laboring to

  • Unit provides tactical control of skies over Afghanistan

    Coalition aircraft fly over Afghanistan around-the-clock, ensuring coalition airpower through such critical capabilities such as close-air support, air refueling and air mobility. Operators based out of the Combined Air and Space Operations Center at an air base in Southwest Asia communicate with

  • 'One of a kind' war records staging facility gets Air Force, national review

    For the first time, Headquarters Air Force and the National Archive and Records Administration visited the only Air Force war records staging facility in existence during a trip here June 30 to July 2. The Air Force records officer and NARA representatives toured the U.S. Air Forces Central Staging

  • Airman, Soldiers report to principal

    Air Force and Army members have teamed up to provide a personal security detail to a principal here. This particular PSD's mission is to ensure the safety and security of their principal, an Air Force major general, at all costs throughout the local area. The detail is required to act swiftly to