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  • Top cover: Airpower integral to ground force's success

    An improvised explosive device had disabled a vehicle. Soldiers were stranded. Their brothers in arms responded to the scene. "As we got within 200 meters of them, World War III opened up," said Army Staff Sgt. Adam Kern, now assigned to Kapisa and Parwan Provincial Reconstruction Team security

  • Coalition Forces target al-Qaeda in Konar

    In Asmar District, Coalition Forces targeted an al-Qaeda IED and suicide bomber network responsible for numerous attacks in the Konar region. Coalition forces searched the first compound without incident. As the force moved to a second compound, they were met by a barrage of automatic weapons and

  • Deployed security forces Airmen keep skills honed

    Thirty-nine Airmen from the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron employed training tactics Friday to clear a "hostile" area of "enemy forces" at the compound here. Members of the 380th ESFS practiced clearing enemy personnel from urban areas during fire-team training in and around buildings

  • 379th AEW assets enable Navy ops off the coast of Pakistan

    As darkness closes in around an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Gulf of Oman, pilots taxi their F-18s a short distance to the catapult to be launched down a mere 300 foot runway at 160 knots, knowing Airmen from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing will be there waiting in the skies over

  • Balad PJs, CSAR train so 'that others may live'

    Air Force Combat Search and Rescue assets spend countless hours training for a mission that they hope to never execute. Since staying proficient and current on operational training is vital for Balad Pararescuemen, they recently teamed with 66th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron HH-60G crews to perform

  • Pennsylvania Guardsmen carry fight back to Afghanistan

    Seven years after United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into an empty field 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Penn., a group of nearly 120 Air National Guardsmen from Pittsburgh's 171st Air Refueling Wing are helping carry the fight back to its origins in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan. For

  • Training wing soars to 3,000th hour in Iraqi sky

    The Iraqi air force Flying Training Wing has reached yet another goal, that may have seemed impossible a year ago, with the help of the 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron. This partnership reached the 3,000th flying training hour milestone here Sept 23. Iraqi air force student pilot 2nd Lt.