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  • Boarding school students visit Manas AB

    Airmen from Manas Air Base usually visit the local Boarding School for the Deaf in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, as part of the Manas Air Base Outreach Society program. This time, a group of graduating high school students visited the base to perform for Airmen and tour Manas AB. Ms. Kanykei Jamanbaeva,

  • May 7 airpower summary: A-10s conduct show of force

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations May 7, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs dropped a guided bomb unit-12,

  • Reapers combine in Afghanistan

    One year after its first training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., the MQ-9 Reaper is well engrained in combat operations. Since taking flight for the first time here in October 2007, Reapers have flown more than 320 missions and 2,400 combat hours throughout Afghanistan, providing

  • Combat civilians: Writing history as it happens

    People think of 'history' as those events that happened many of years ago. The Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Vietnam Conflict are all military conflicts documented in American history, in part by historians who were miles and years away from the action. Thanks to combat civilians like Doug

  • May 6 airpower summary: B-1B destroys enemy compound

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations May 6, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs performed shows of force in

  • Smithsonian study of Iraqi birds to help reduce aircraft mishaps

    One of the Air Force's greatest air power adversaries doesn't wear the uniform of another country; it wears feathers. Both deadly and expensive, aircraft accidents and mishaps caused by collisions with birds have cost the service approximately $35 million each year since 1985, according to Air Force