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  • Pilot hits milestone, reaches 2,000 flight hours

    Lt. Col. Vince O’Connor surpassed the 2,000-hour mark for flying May 19, 2017. O'Connor is deployed out of Aviano Air Base, Italy, and is currently delivering airpower in support of operations within the Central Command area-of-responsibility. 

  • 455th EAMXS provides combat-ready aircraft

    Tech. Sgt. Carlo Patalinghug, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, deployed Hill Air Force Base, Utah, examines an F-16 Fighting Falcon to isolate and repair a hydraulic leak at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Nov. 30, 2015. The squadron provides combat-ready aircraft to the

  • AIRMEN IN C-130J CRASH IDENTIFIED, MEMORIALIZED AT BAF

    The six Airmen assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing who died Oct. 2 when their C-130J Super Hercules aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, were identified by the Department of Defense today.Killed in the crash were Capt. Jordan Pierson, Capt. Jonathan