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  • Kandahar EOD unit serves to protect Afghanistan servicemembers

    Improvised Explosive Devices kill people. The vast majority of military members serving in combat make it a point to go out of their way to avoid them. For the Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal team at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, they make it a point to go out of their way to find them. IEDs

  • 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

  • Maintaining the Fight: Air Mobility in Afghanistan

    Being in a fight is easy, it is having the ability to stay in the fight until you win that is the hard part. This is especially true in the new type of war being fought by the Coalition forces in Afghanistan where the enemy's strategy is to outlast the resolve and sustainment capability of U.S. and

  • CAFTT host first joint Commanders’ Conference

    The Coalition Air Force Training Team and the Iraqi Air Force held their first joint commanders' conference for nearly 100 coalition and Iraqi senior leaders here May 20. "This is the first time, based on the level to which the Iraqi Air Force has matured over the past couple of years, that it was

  • First Iraqi ISR aircrew members graduate

    The first class of Iraqi Air Force Squadron 87 King Air intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircrew members completed their year long training May 17, culminating with a graduation ceremony here. The Iraqi King Air program, headed up by U.S. Air Force and Navy aircrew instructors, has

  • Airmen dedicate 3 new buildings to Iraqi air force

    Members of the Coalition Air Force Training Team handed over three new buildings to the Iraqi Air Force here May 13 in a traditional dedication ceremony. Among the new facilities were an avionics testing facility, a communications building and a munitions storage area. According to Lt. Col. Angel

  • Coming full circle: PTT Airmen honor fallen comrade in arms

    Airmen from the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Det. 3, Police Transition Training Team paid tribute to a fallen comrade on the two-year anniversary of the death of Staff Sgt. John T. Self. A fire team leader for the PTT team, Sergeant Self was killed while out on patrol when the

  • Intel officer gets inside look at Afghan culture

    Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team convoys traveling to the far reaches of the Afghan border scoping out potential sites for construction of schools, medical facilities or water purification facilities provide many locals the rare opportunity to interact with Americans. The mission of the Paktya

  • Air Force officials mull 9th Air Force, AFCENT separation

    As Air Force leaders continue to balance mission requirements and available resources, they are proposing a separation between the stateside numbered air force and its warfighting component to the U.S. Central Command. Currently, a three-star general commands both 9th Air Force at Shaw Air Force

  • Emergency aid reaches Pakistan refugees

    A third U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft landed here today bringing emergency aid promised by the Department of Defense to the people of Pakistan who have evacuated the war-torn Swat Valley. Over the past 24 hours, three such aircraft delivered relief supplies here, part of $10 million