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  • Manas KC-135s top off receivers, local fuel record

    As Manas Air Base KC-135 Stratotankers topped off their final refueling sortie May 24, they also topped a local single-day offload fuel record. The 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron passed 804,800 pounds of fuel to 32 receivers. The fuel directly supported 16 "show of force" missions as

  • AFCENT band wraps up Kyrgyz Republic tour

    Members of the U.S. Air Forces Central Band Thunder Roll wrapped up a 12-day tour here playing on base and in the local Bishkek community. The traveling Air Force band, which is deployed to the AFCENT area of responsibility from the Air Force Band of the West at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas,

  • May 26 airpower summary: A-10s bomb targets

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations May 26, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs dropped guided bomb

  • Kirkuk expands medical capabilities

    The 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron expanded its medical capabilities with the recent acquisition of a computed tomography scanner. Known as a CT scanner, the machine takes X-ray images of the body's internal areas in multi-plane slices - an improvement from typical X-ray techniques, said Maj.

  • Coalition forces, local government thwart IED in Panjshir

    Many innocent Afghan lives were saved due to the quick action of a local farmer and the combined efforts of the Panjshir government and the Provincial Reconstruction Team here May 23. A farmer, crossing one of his fields on a Panjshir mountain ridge, found an improvised explosive device and