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  • Keeping old planes flying: Airmen fabricate parts from scratch

    Editor's note: this is the second of a three-part series on the fabrication flight. From troop movements and cargo drops to placing bombs on target, deployed aircraft can't always wait weeks or even days for parts to be ordered and shipped to the repair facilities in the desert, so one team of

  • Airmen, Soldiers unite to construct battery site

    Airmen and soldiers worked hand in hand, constructing a new phased array tracking radar to intercept of target, or PATRIOT, Battery site completed here April 24. The 2nd Battalion 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment's mission here is to provide theater air and missile defense from air borne attacks

  • 15th generation Rabbi: helping servicemembers keep faith

    The flame dances a slow mesmerizing dance as it flickers from one side of the wick to the next, the light softly illuminates his face as his silhouette becomes a portion of the projection behind him, images of holocaust victims. Soft-spoken yet with a stern demeanor, Rabbi (Capt.) Raphael Berdugo's,

  • In-theater distro saves lives, makes travel easier

    Not many servicemembers ducking into foxholes stop to think about where their body armor comes from or how each strap of it was sewn together. What they may think about after the air clears is how thankful they are to have it. The Expeditionary Theater Distribution Center, part of the 379th

  • May promotees announced

    In a ceremony at the base theater April 29, the promotees from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and associate units were announced. The promotees for the month of May are: To Senior Airman: Kenneth Kozar John Cardwell To Staff Sgt.: Ryan Seifert Robert Wagner Shawn Osner Phong Pham Jacob Pennell

  • ECES utilities replenish Airmen by the truckload

    Working by street lights and headlamps, Airmen scramble in the dead of night to restack and organize the pallets upon pallets of bottled water needed in the arid desert environment. Supported by more than 30 Airmen, the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron utilities system shop works around