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  • SERE specialists help air crew return with honor

    Preparing for a mission, aircrew members listen carefully to the briefer as if their lives depend on his every word. If the mission goes awry, Staff Sgt. Eric Zwoll's survival, evasion, resistance and escape briefing may not only save their lives but allow them to return with honor. Sergeant Zwoll

  • 379th hosts Navy F/A-18s

    The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing recently played host to Sailors of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, who were participating in Exercise Eastern Angler. The bilateral coalition exercise consisted of five days of flying operations, giving the navy F/A-18 Hornet pilots a chance to train with the host

  • Servicemembers teaching while deployed

    Education is something the military encourages servicemembers to seek whenever they can, as long as it doesn't interfere with the mission. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to get university teachers to remote locations like deployed areas, but that's where certain deployed personnel, all of whom

  • First line of defense

    A full-sized sedan, when turned into a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), can carry as much as 1,000 pounds of explosives hidden away in the trunk, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A VBIED that size would create a blast wave which would send

  • Army unit wraps up last 15-month rotation here

    Soldiers, with the 2-43 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, have maintained a near 15-month vigil of the Patriot defense mission here and are now preparing to pass the torch onto their sister unit -- the 3-43 ADA. The 2-43 ADA deployed from Fort Bliss, Texas, in 2008 taking over operations and

  • Powering flightline activities

    The 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment flight lives by a saying - "There is no airpower without ground power." That's because the flight is responsible for all the equipment used to test the systems of more than 100 joint and coalition aircraft stationed here without