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  • Safe practices ensure mission success

    In a job where that mission is inherently dangerous, mitigating the risk can seem like a close second in mission priority. Safe practices and risk management, both on and off duty, are a part of ensuring that the mission is accomplished as safely and efficiently as possible.

  • RED HORSE: Engineering the Deid

    The 823rd Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) Squadron, from Hurlburt Field, Fla., is currently deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Centrally located at Al Udeid Air Base, the 557th ERHS is comprised of more than

  • Flying Ambulances: Aeromedical Evacuation

    The morning starts early with an alert about four hours before take-off.  Members of the 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron begin several mandatory tasks before boarding the aircraft.  Nurses go over mission details, as medical technicians pack more than a thousand pounds of

  • Basic Training to Al Udeid: Two Air Force careers reunited after 21 years

    It all started in 1996. One kid from Prattville, Ala., and another from Baton Rouge, La., took a bus to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas; both a little scared and excited to become the U.S. Air Force’s newest Airmen. Though they grew up in the South only about 400 miles apart and spent six weeks

  • 763rd ERS spends 10,000th day in CENTCOM area of responsibility

    On Aug 2. 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with a series of bombings in the country’s capital, Kuwait City. Four days later, Operation Desert Shield kicked off and on Aug. 9, the first RC-135 Rivet Joint mission of the 55th Wing flew over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. This

  • B-52 upgrade arrives in the Middle East

    The B-52 Stratofortress’ assigned to the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron operating out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar became the first B-52’s in the U.S. Air Force to employ the conventional rotary launcher upgrade in combat operations on Nov. 18.

  • Commander of the Air Force Reserve Command visits AUAB

    U.S. Air Force Reserve Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller, commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, and Chief Master Sgt. Ericka Kelly, command chief master sergeant for the Air Force Reserve Command, visited Air Force Reservists deployed here during a trip to the U.S. Central Command area of

  • Time-based Innovation Increases Vehicle Management Proficiency

    When Chief Master Sgt. Jayen Patel, vehicle management flight chief for the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron here, arrived in January 2017, he started identifying processes that needed revision to effectively maintain the installation’s 2,200 vehicles. The challenge was going to be