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  • Manas ceremony honors local vets

    It isn't very often that Mark Pavlovich Polushenko has occasion to put on his military service dress uniform. The 83-year-old retired infantry lieutenant colonel with the former Soviet Union Army had an opportunity to suit up again Monday during a special Veterans Day event here. He was among a

  • JTAC demonstrates epitome of professionalism under fire

    Staff Sgt. "Dean" was having a bad day at the office. As an Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller embedded with ground forces, his job was to serve as liaison between the ground commander and aircrews. On the afternoon of Oct. 27, the ten-vehicle convoy he was traveling with in Southern

  • Air Force team completes historic project at Bagram

    A historic accomplishment here is simply part of the job for a traveling team of Airmen who have been enhancing Air Force missions throughout the region for the last two months. The nine-person team, deployed from the 49th Material Maintenance Group at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., recently made

  • Reaper drops first precision-guided bomb, protects ground forces

    The MQ-9A Reaper demonstrated it's unique precision strike capability as a hunter-killer attack platform by dropping its first precision-guided bomb Nov. 7. "The beauty of the MQ-9 Reaper is that we're able to synchronize and integrate unmanned aerial attack platforms over the skies of Afghanistan,

  • Denmark, Canada hone close air support skills alongside USAF JTACs

    Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, specialists in airpower embedded in ground units to assist Airmen in delivering the effects of airpower, are used to working in multi-service and multi-national operations. In order to replicate the collaborative environment of the modern battlefield, planners at

  • Close air support exercise challenges aircrews, ground forces, base support

    The cool evening is still as three camouflaged insurgents watch an Army patrol approach their village. Unbeknownst to the saboteurs, an Air Force targeting pod is closely watching their position and relaying information to the ground commander. Suddenly, a deafening explosion drowns out all sound

  • Airpower Summary for November 7

    Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Nov. 7, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, he MQ-9A Reaper demonstrated it's unique