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  • 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.

  • Airmen, Sailors share historic moment in UAS launch

    An Air Combat Command RQ-4A Global Hawk made history on several fronts when it arrived at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing here after a 19-hour flight Sept. 20. Sailors from Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., launched the unmanned aircraft out of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force

  • ABS-G: New gear integrates function, capabilities for combat Airmen

    Battlefield Airmen will soon receive a new equipment item that will improve their ability to execute their combat duties. The new Airman Battle System-Ground is a tactical ensemble, or equipment item, for Airmen who perform their mission outside the wire in close coordination with ground forces. "It