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  • Maintenance repair teams from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing change the engine of a C-130 under harsh conditions in an abandoned airstrip just outside of Shindand, Afghanistan. Security forces Airmen stood watch for about 50 hours to ensure the aircraft and crew were safe from harm while on the ground.

    Airmen put C-130 back in the fight

    When a 379th Air Expeditionary Wing C-130 team went out on a transport mission recently, they never thought they'd end up changing an engine on a deserted strip of land outside Shindand, Afghanistan. The C-130 was en route to Shindand on a combat mission when they began having engine trouble. The crew decided the safe thing to do would be to land
  • Two Lebanese soldiers unload ammunition delivered by the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. The C-17 Globemaster III is capable of rapid delivery of troops and cargo to any location worldwide. It’s the newest and most flexible airlift asset in the Air Force inventory. The 816th maintained operations in Iraq and Afghanistan while supporting the effort to re-supply the Lebanon Armed Forces from their strategic location in Southwest Asia. The squadron has flown about 850 sorties in May, to include the ammunition re-supply mission, cargo and passenger movement and Joint Precision Guided Air Drops. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Teresa Sullivan)

    Airmen deliver bullets to Beirut to aid Lebanese military

    C-17 Globemaster III crews of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron delivered bullets to Beirut as part of a short notice ammunition re-supply tasking in support of the Lebanese military. The 816th EAS, a tenant unit of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing based out of Southwest Asia, was given the order to deliver ammunition to the Rafic Harari
  • Airman 1st Class David Cardenas, 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, positions a box of leaflets. Airman Cardenas dropped more than 80,000 leaflets over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

    746TH EAS supports OEF with leaflet drop

    Crewmembers with the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here participated in a leaflet drop over Afghanistan Monday. The crew, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, dropped 80,000 leaflets on four parts of the area of responsibility known to be inhabited by the Taliban in an effort to send specific messages to the enemy. "We dropped
  • Staff Sgt. John Anderson and Senior Airman Solomon Ruiz, both with the 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, fix the air conditioning levels at the Control and Reporting Center on “dirt road.” There are eight CRC’s in the total force. They are currently participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and in the United States. Considered to be a high density, low-demand asset, these units can take their systems and equipment and set up in a bare-base location anywhere in the world within 24 hours.

    Total Force CRC controls skies over combat theater

    In the midst of the bustling air wing is a camp along a dirt road where a team of air battle managers are hard at work monitoring the air waves every second of every day -- keeping watch of the skies. Seventy Airmen, Soldiers and Guardsmen of the 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron operate a Control and Reporting Center, or CRC, watching for
  • Staff Sgt. Jonathon Keck, with the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit here, prepares to fuel a B-1B Lancer by hooking up the gas hose to the ground. Sergeant Keck is deployed from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. and is from San Antonio.

    379th Maintainers keep B-1 Thunderbirds at tip of spear

    Expeditionary Airmen are critical to the fight in the Global War on Terrorism, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing proved just how crucial it is to be trained and work efficiently during a B-1 combat mission where pilots and maintainers responded successfully to a "catastrophic" hydraulic system failure. The aircrew had to perform an emergency
  • A Navy P-3, with the Patrol Squadron EIGHT, takes off from Southwest Asia. Orignally designed for anti-submarine warfare, the Commander, Task Group 57.2 uses the plane in the area of responsibility for ground surveillance.

    Navy’s P-3 Orions provide overwatch for servicemembers in AOR

    When a unit's primary mission is anti-submarine warfare, flying over the Middle East performing missions for convoys and ground troops can be both a challenge and an exciting change. Commander, Task Group 57.2 is composed primarily of members of Patrol Squadron EIGHT (VP-8) "Fighting Tigers" who perform battle-group support and intelligence,
  • Airman 1st Class David Wonsitler, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit electro-environment maintainer, preps a heat exchanger for installation. The heat exhanger cools the coolant oil in the avionics bay to keep all electronic parts from overheating. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erik Hofmeyer)

    Turnin' wrenches

  • Staff Sgt. Abram Norwood (right) and Senior Airman Christopher Graham, 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Expeditionary Theater Distribution Center mobility specialists, build up individual body armor vests Tuesday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erik Hofmeyer)

    Gearing up: Desert Eagle Team helps process, move servicemembers here, to forward locations

    Almost everyone in the Air Force deploys to one place or another at some point in their career. Getting people to the right place at the right time can take a huge amount of coordination and teamwork on everyone's part. Many units and missions come together to help ensure the smoothest transition possible into a deployed location. Here, such units
  • Lt. Gen. David Deptula (left), deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, met with Brig. Gen. Charles Shugg (right), 379th Air Expeditionary Wing commander, during his visit here. The general discussed how a combined arms campaign with integrated airpower is the only way to build success in both theaters.

    AF intelligence officer visits 379th AEW

    The deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance recently visited the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing to talk to wing intelligence and ISR squadrons about the importance of their mission and learn about new processes in the area of responsibility. Capt. Lisa Corley and Maj. Todd Geohagan, 379th Expeditionary Operations

  • Base uses new AFSO 21 office to focus on improving processes

    Budget cuts have energized the Air Force to look at the way Airmen do business. With fewer people and less money, the search for lean ideas has swept across the service and Airmen at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing have responded. The 379th AEW Plans and Programs office is now the central point for funneling ideas from wing personnel for Air Force
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