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  • PRT engineers inspect "outside the wire" daily

    When most people think of civil engineer officers, they think of programming, planning, and designing; all of which usually take place behind four walls, a desk, and a computer. They envision a nine-to-five, white collar job that rarely puts them in harm's way. That's not the case when you're

  • Oldest USAFE A-10 performing CAS

    For 17 consecutive years the Air Force has been conducting combat operations, flying its aircraft about five times the peacetime rate while forgoing any significant recapitalization. This includes an A-10A Warthog, deployed here from the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, which

  • Airman donates to Locks of Love

    She had long hair all of her life, but during a deployment here she decided to donate 13 inches of it to Locks of Love. "I never had short hair," said Staff Sgt. Jenet Akerson, 451st Expeditionary Communications Flight Network Control Center technician. "I was raised in Hawaii; my mom has long hair,

  • Airman earns Purple Heart on twelfth deployment

    The hazards of twelve deployments finally caught up to one 18-year Air Force veteran. Tech. Sergeant Jerome S. Baker was awarded a Purple Heart for a wound suffered to his right thigh during a terrorist rocket attack near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad's International Zone March 26. Sergeant Baker is a

  • AFCENT band visit reunites father with Army son during deployment

    As the U.S. Air Forces Central band traveled to various deployed bases throughout the Southwest Asia since mid-January, one of the group's musicians anxiously awaited his performances in early April at Kirkuk. Master Sgt. Dean Smith, a trombonist, re-united with his son, U.S. Army Specialist David

  • Servicemembers build African partnerships with well-drilling project

    Airmen and Sailors joined Kenyans March 30 and 31 in an effort to increase access to clean drinking water within the country's arid Garissa District. More than 100,000 pounds of well-drilling equipment and nearly a dozen Navy Seabees were delivered to Nairobi's airport by an Air Force C-17

  • Honorable Duehring visits deployed Airmen

    The Honorable Craig Duehring, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Washington, D.C., met with Airmen from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing at an air base in the Persian Gulf Region recently. The visit is the first of many for Mr. Duehring, Brig. Gen. William

  • April 7 airpower summary: F-16s bomb enemy artillery

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations April 7, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle dropped a guided bomb unit-31

  • Flight engineer reaches 10,000 flight hours

    A flight engineer with the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing's 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron surpassed 10,000 flight hours during a KC-10 Extender mission March 29. Senior Master Sgt. Robert Fisher, a St. Petersburg, Fla. native and home stationed out of McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., ended

  • Airmen at war set cargo, passenger movement records

    Air transportation requirements of cargo and troops within U.S. Central Command's 27-nation area of responsibility reached an all-time high in March, but Airmen responded to this demand with a record-setting performance. U.S. Air Forces Central's air mobility professionals topped previous benchmarks