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  • Project Coordination Office streamlines efforts in Zabul

    The newly created Project Coordination Office in Zabul province marked its first day of operations here Aug. 4. They met to select one of five contractor bids for building a new boys' dormitory in Qalat. The PCO serves as a hub for all reconstruction and development efforts within the province from

  • New structure offers innovative training for firefighters

    Iraqi firefighters can now sharpen their abilities to operate effectively inside burning structures with the aid of a new training facility. Seven Iraqi firefighters learned search and rescue tactics at the new facility here July 30 alongside firefighters from the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer

  • Iraqi women volunteer for checkpoint duties

    Insurgents are taking advantage of Soldiers who are reluctant to search females by dressing as women to get through checkpoints. They're also recruiting more women as suicide bombers, who killed more than 65 people in Baghdad July 22. Now, Iraqi women are stepping forward to help solve this problem.

  • Global Hawk: the cost, the dividends

    Seven flying "robots," 16 pilots, 7 sensor operators and a couple hundred maintainers add up to one of the most advanced reconnaissance missions in the U.S. Air Force operational world. The RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 10, an unmanned aerial vehicle, is capable of some of the most technologically-advanced

  • Air Force family knows the meaning of service

    When he was younger, Chaplain (Capt.) John Shipman, senior protestant chaplain at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, learned the lessons of service and hard work with his five older brothers on a farm in Wisconsin. There, while milking cows, plowing and baling hay, they were taught the meaning of

  • Manas Air Base hosts congressional delegation

    A congressional delegation consisting of five U.S. senators visited with Airmen from the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing and toured the base, Aug. 5, as a part of an eight-day trip to promote security, democracy and development in central Asia. Led by U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada,