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  • Command post: the backbone of AUAB

    From aircraft maintenance to security forces traffic incidents, the base command post is the focal point for information gathering and distribution across Al Udeid Air Base.

  • AUAB power projection: Aeromedical Evacuation

    If any servicemember throughout U.S. Central Command needs medical care beyond what they are able to receive locally, they don’t need to worry. The 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron has them covered.

  • Joint optometry team gives warfighters clarity

    U.S. Airmen at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar and U.S. Soldiers at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, combine optometry capabilities to ensure servicemembers across U.S. Central Command are able to focus on their mission.Once a week, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Peter Carra, 379th Expeditionary Medical Group optometry

  • VAQ-135 brings unique joint airpower to AUAB

    Sailors from U.S. Navy Electronic Attack Squadron 135 (VAQ-135) deliver a unique warfighting skill set to U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility.Through the use of EA-18G Growler aircraft, VAQ-135 brings electronic based airborne attack and defense capabilities to Al Udeid’s joint environment

  • AUAB power projection: ‘Viper’ team creates airborne uplink

    When senior leaders fly over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, a team comprised of six Airmen ensure they never lose the ability to communicate with others on the ground.To accomplish this, U.S. CENTCOM and their subordinate commands rely on the 379th Air Expeditionary Squadron’s

  • AUAB Power Projection: ECS connects coalition forces

    The 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron generated communications capabilities for a French Armed Forces detachment here, Feb. 14, 2018. Using a “beddown” team, 379th ECS Airmen connected the French detachment with a tactical communication link and network capability, enabling them to

  • AUAB power projection: En Route Patient Staging Facility

    Patients across U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility who require various degrees of medical treatment often find their way to Al Udeid, where they are met with open arms from Airmen of the 379th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron’s En Route Patient Staging Facility. Medics from the ERPS

  • Joint training strengthens Air Force, Army collaboration

    Airmen and Soldiers practiced Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) training techniques and procedures Feb. 22, 2019, as part of a joint decontamination training event.The event was the conclusion of a four phase curriculum. Participants from the 379th

  • U.S., Qatari ‘defenders’ pioneer bilateral relationship

    At Al Udeid, select security forces members from the 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Sqadron take on an ambassadorship role, pioneering bilateral interoperability with their Qatar Military Police counterparts during “Spartan Patrols.”These patrols, which team U.S. Air Force and QMP ‘defenders’

  • TMO moves the mission

    Airmen who work at the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron’s traffic management office say ‘without TMO, assets and people don't move.’ Items as small as lug nuts for a truck or as large as a C-130 Hercules engine can pass through TMO to be processed, stored, and shipped to warfighters