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  • July 24 airpower summary: A-10s hit enemy targets

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations July 24, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force Reaper MQ-9A fired a hellfire

  • POL fuels airpower

    The 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron employed nearly 20 experts to replace a 3-ton fuel bladder here Thursday. Volunteers from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing joined the experts - members of the Petroleum, Oils, and Lubrications Flight - as they gathered in the POL area at the start

  • Reaper flies 1st combat mission in Iraq

    An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system flew its first combat mission over Iraq July 18, offering a powerful new capability to warfighters on the front lines of the Global War on Terrorism. "With the MQ-1 (Predator) and the MQ-9, you can hunt down a target; you can stare at a target; you can

  • Memorial held to honor fellow Tuskegee Airman

    Town Hall filled with brothers and sisters mourning the loss of a member of the U.S. military family here July 20. Tech. Sgt. Jackie Larsen, a paralegal working with the Law and Order Task Force of the 732nd Expeditionary Support Squadron, died from non-combat related causes July 17. Sergeant

  • Secretary of State visits 380th Air Expeditionary Wing

    Airmen from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing greeted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice here before she departed from here enroute to Singapore. Various Airmen were selected from throughout the base to meet Secretary Rice during her visit. "Meeting Secretary Rice was a highlight of my deployment,"

  • Manas Liberandos bust through million pound mark

    "Liberandos" maintainers helped the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing bust through a new record here - more than1 million pounds of fuel offloaded by its KC-135s to receiver aircraft in a single day. Like most summer days on the hot concrete ramp at Manas, July 17 was a flurry of activity pierced by the