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  • 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