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  • Tigers' roar heard throughout the AOR

    Minutes from their target, four crewmembers in a B-1 Lancer brace themselves as their aircraft fights turbulence. Bouncing and jolting against the bumps as they roll through the clouds in the skies of the Middle East. Circling the troops below, the weapons system officer focuses his eyes to find the

  • Airmen help graduate Afghan's newest firefighters

    Eleven members of the Afghan National Army Air Corps recently became the first graduates of the Air Corps Firefighting School May 29 at Kabul. The graduates completed four months of class work, countless hands-on exercises extinguishing various types of fires and practicing lifesaving techniques

  • Iraqi Air Force enhances capabilities with instructor school

    The Iraqi Air Force has continued rebuilding efforts to become a credible and capable military entity by recently establishing the Flight Instructor School for Iraqi pilots. The school puts the most experienced of Iraq's operational pilots into the classroom and cockpit at the Iraqi Flying Training

  • Airmen keep servicemembers, families connected

    More than 24,000 Airmen are deployed throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, the Persian Gulf Region and the Horn of Africa areas of operation and near the top of most Airmen's lists is staying connected with their loved ones back home. At one Southwest Asia air base, a group of 17 Airmen from the 386th

  • Improvements target morale

    A genuine caring attitude drives the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Airmen who continuously work to improve the MWR facilities and events for Airmen and Soldiers here. Assigned to the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, two of the three MWR Airmen arrived in March to discover a facility

  • Airmen help Iraqi Air Force become self-sustaining service

    High above the desert terrain, they fly in providing security to the people of Iraq. Always scanning for possible threats, the Iraqi Airmen are vigilant, alert and ready to engage the enemy while patrolling the skies. The Iraqi Air Force has evolved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Guiding these

  • Security Forces protects combat resources

    They're on the flightline, at entry control points, and along the perimeter. Sometimes, they're not seen at all. They are security forces. While the exact numbers are classified, members of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron are located throughout Afghanistan helping fight the Global