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  • Liberandos challenge themselves to complete Manas half-marathon

    More than 100 runners from the "Liberando" team took to the streets and roads here, Aug 31, to culminate weeks of training for the Manas half marathon. In the early morning hours Sunday, the deployed members started the day with a prayer for the safety of those running and with the beep of a stop

  • Air component commander leads by walking around

    Lt. Gen. Gary North visited the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 to see what the Airmen here are up to first-hand. General North, 9th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Central commander, who also serves as the United States Central Command's Combined Force Air Component Commander, said

  • GWOT milestone reached in aircraft named for 9/11

    A unit here recently reached 40,000 flight hours in support of the Global War on Terror fittingly in an aircraft named for the attacks which began the war. The 7th Expeditionary Air Command and Control Squadron reached the milestone Sept. 2 in E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System

  • AFPC commander visits AOR

    It might seem that a two star general and 31-year Air Force veteran would have experienced everything the service has to offer but the Air Force Personnel Center commander had a career milestone that she had not crossed until her recent trip to Southwest Asia. When the opportunity to put her boots

  • Mirage Fulfills Soldier’s Rock and Roll Dreams in Iraq

    Getting your first gig in a rock and roll band doesn't happen very often for service members deployed to Iraq, but that's what happened to one Soldier when an Air Force band came to his base. Spc. Andrew Walker had the opportunity to play with members of the Air Forces Central band Mirage in Mosul,

  • Ramadan a time of fasting, prayer

    Muslims around the world will observe the holy month of Ramadan beginning at sunset Sept. 1. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is significant because it is the month when the archangel Gabriel revealed the first verses of the Qur'an to the prophet Mohammed, said Faraj Washyer, a