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  • CSAF addresses 386th Airmen during AOR visit

    The Air Force's top officer spoke to 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen as part of a visit to the Air Forces Central area of responsibility April 6 and 7. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz also took time to visit the Airmen of the 387th Air Expeditionary Group and speak with the combat

  • Safety experts spearhead efforts to minimize bird strikes

    Americans witnessed first hand the severity of bird strikes when U.S. Airways Flight 1549 crash landed in the Hudson River in New York City after hitting a flock of birds in January. Lt. Col. Charles Wallace and his team of seven safety experts with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing safety office, do

  • Gone, never forgotten: Sather memorializes fallen Airman

    All Airmen agree to lay down their lives for their country when they join the Air Force. Some have to fulfill that promise. Those who make the ultimate sacrifice are forever lost but never forgotten. Rather, Air Force members memorialize Airmen like Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin, a security forces

  • 732nd SFS Det. 3 provides combat support to Iraq

    Members of the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Det. 3, provide outside-the-wire combat support by doing everything from patrolling as police transition teams to performing intelligence operations to using military working dog teams to help Iraqi police with the security of the

  • Memorial service honors fallen EOD team leader

    Service members and civilians deployed to International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Regional Command-South (RC-South) gathered in the base chapel of Kandahar Air Field April 6 to pay final respects to fallen Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers. Sergeant Myers was killed April 3 by an improvised

  • Airman helps Iraqis bury past, rebuild future

    It has been said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, but a group of Iraqi contractors, with the help of an Airmen, are taking a different approach. They are burying the past to rebuild a new future.The past, in this case, are three villas located in the International

  • Airman killed in Southern Afghanistan

    An Airman assigned to the 755th Air Expeditionary Group in Kandahar was killed by an improvised explosive device in Southern Afghanistan today. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin.

  • Comm Airmen support detainee task force

    It has been said that communication is a key element to a successful mission and a few comm Airmen here are using their expertise to support Task Force 134.As members of a task force charged with Iraqi detainee operations, Staff Sgt. Michael Wiley, Task Force 134 system administrator, Tech. Sgt.

  • AF instructors empower Iraqi warrant officers to lead

    Twenty-nine Iraqi air force members, the largest class to date, graduated from the warrant officer professional development course at the Iraqi Air Force School House here March 28 with help from their U.S. Air Force instructors.The number of attendees demonstrates the commitment of the Iraqi air