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  • Check your speed

    There are consequences for going too fast on the road while deployed. The host nation has many traffic ordinances put in place for the safety of travelers, and it becomes the responsibility for any service member who drives off the installation to know them."Just like in the United States, there is

  • AF personnel chief updates Airmen on road ahead

    Lieutenant General Darrell Jones, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, visited deployed troops at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Jan. 8. Jones spoke to a theater full of deployed Airmen on topics such as the congressional and Air Force

  • Start your New Year's resolution with you

    It's a new year, and for many deployed Airmen it's an opportunity for a new start. It sounds like a great plan, but if there's no foundation to start with, it becomes another failed New Year's resolution."Just writing down a few New Year's resolutions is probably not going to do much for you," said

  • Expeditionary Area Defense Counsel Assist Deployed Airmen

    When a deployed Airman is suspected of an offense, or received some adverse paperwork, there is support available from the Office of the Expeditionary Area Defense Counsel. The EADC team, consisting of two attorneys and one defense paralegal, provides legal counsel to all Airmen facing adverse

  • No Nerds = No Birds: The Depot Liaison Engineer Story

    Ever wonder how those airplanes keep flying? Maintenance practices by technicians following technical order manuals, of course. But what happens when the T.O. is vague? What happens when there are no more parts in supply and nobody has materials on hand to make that part, but the aircraft needs to

  • 340th EARS caps off 2012 by completing 50,000 flying hours in one year

    Averaging more than 136 hours a day, the largest refueling squadron in the world flew more than 50,000 combat hours within 2012's 366 calendar days using the Total Force Integration model."Surpassing 50,000 hours is a significant milestone," said Lt. Col. Brian Gilpatrick, 340th Expeditionary Air