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  • Airmen working to lose jobs through Iraqi Army advisement efforts

    The12 Airmen know each other pretty well; after all, they've lived, eaten, exercised and traveled together for the past nine months at the remote Iraqi Military Training Base of Kirkush, located in the Diyala Province just over 10 miles from the Iranian border. The only Americans living amongst

  • Deployed fathers find ways to keep in touch with families

    This Father's Day, many deployed servicemembers have mixed feelings about being away from their children and having their "area of responsibility" shift from the home front to the war front. But many fathers in the AOR feel their commitment to their families is also a big part of their identity as

  • ILO: A little bit of everything

    He can be found each morning hustling from one Humvee to the next ensuring the communication equipment is operational before fellow Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team members convoy into the mountainous terrain here. "Basically we are in charge of all the communication equipment in the

  • Treading the AOR: maintenance flight the ‘wheel’ heroes

    While one Airman rolls a C-130 wheel and tire assembly across the room another starts the process of breaking his down. Bit by bit, he separates the two halves as pieces crumble off onto the floor; trying to keep up with customer demands, he wheels on. Day in and day out, the two, four-member teams

  • Trench highlights interoperability

    Airmen and Soldiers finished a trenching project June 10 that stretches for almost a half mile here. The trench will tie hardened aircraft shelters the Army will be using into the communications network here and highlights the two services interoperability. The project wasn't the first time the

  • Airmen teach Iraqis Western-style command, control

    As part of an ongoing process to stabilize Iraq, U.S. Airmen are teaching command and control techniques to their counterparts at the Iraqi air operations center at Camp Victory near Baghdad's international airport. The operations center is the hub that controls all Iraqi air force missions, where