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  • Medics, volunteers help servicemembers recover for duty

    The 379th Expeditionary Medical Group nurses and technicians join forces with base volunteers to help sick and injured servicemembers fully recover and get back in the fight. The In-Theater Care Program here was established to treat patients with non-debilitating injuries, non-urgent surgical needs

  • Navy leaves aerial communications mission to Air Force

    For convoys moving at night in Iraq who are out of radio contact with all friendly forces, the E-6 Mercury has been a godsend. The Navy jet, which is assigned to Task Force-124 Forward here, is one of the aircraft flying over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. They have been relaying

  • 816th EAS Airmen guide KC-135 to safe landing

    Thanks to aircrew actions onboard a C-17 Globemaster III, a KC-135R Stratotanker assigned to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, was able to safely land after its navigation systems failed March 16.Shortly after taking off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, the crew from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift

  • Getting fallen warriors home

    Two Services Airmen here would probably be happier if they never had to complete their primary duties, but are honored to do them when they have to.As members of the 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron mortuary affairs office and readiness office, Master Sgt. Danny Howell and Tech. Sgt.

  • Generations serving together, bonding during deployment

    When a father entered the Air Force years ago, he never thought that one day he'd be working side by side with his son at a deployed location.That's exactly what happens every day when father and son duo, Tech. Sgt. Christopher Bond and Senior Airman Benjamin Bond, start their shift as KC-135