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  • Marines deployed with Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 step to their EA-6B Prowler at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Sept. 12, 2018. VMAQ-2 is currently completing the final EA-6B Prowler deployment before the last six aircraft in the U.S. military inventory are retired. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)

    EA-6B Prowler’s final chapter being written at Al Udeid

    VMAQ-2, the last of the four Marine Prowler squadrons, is completing its final deployment in Qatar with the last six aircraft in the U.S. military inventory.
  • Weapons load crews assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron conduct a training exercise on the B-1B Lancer with inert munitions at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Sept. 13, 2018. The event involved reconfiguring the aircraft with inert munitions to maintain a high state of readiness. The B-1B Lancer carries the largest conventional payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory and is the backbone of America's long-range bomber force. It can rapidly deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world, at any time. Its armaments include up to 24 AGM-158A Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Munitions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)

    B-1B weapons loaders conduct combat-capability training

    Weapons load crews assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron conduct a training exercise on a B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron with inert munitions at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Sept. 13, 2018.
  • Personnel from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing offload cargo from a C-17 Globemaster III at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia after being transported between U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command, Aug. 28, 2018. Al Udeid-based aircraft have completed nearly 15 missions this calendar year between the two commands. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)

    Al Udeid-based C-17s link AFRICOM, CENTCOM

    Crews from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron recently completed multiple cargo missions with the C-17 Globemaster III aircraft to U.S. Africa Command, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, with the most recent mission, Aug. 28.
  • Chief Master Sgt. Gloria Weatherspoon, 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron superintendent, demonstrates the prayer performed during Ramadan May 13, 2018, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. After returning to her home station after this deployment, Weatherspoon will submit an official request to wear a hijab in uniform. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Enjoli Saunders)

    Connecting culture and service: Ramadan

    Twenty-two years ago, then Airman Gloria Weatherspoon, would not have imagined wearing a hijab, also known as a headdress, celebrating Ramadan in a Muslim country while deployed. The month long religious observance for Muslims is a time of intensive worship and increased prayer.
  • B-52 Stratofortress has conventional rotary launcher installed

    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.
  • Gen. Lengyel, Chief of National Guard Bureau, checks in with Guardsmen deployed to Qatar

    Gen. Lengyel checks in with Guardsmen deployed to AUAB

    U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher S. Kepner, senior enlisted advisor to the Chief, NGB, visited deployed Guardsmen at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Nov. 24, 2017.
  • Members of the U.S. Air Force, Royal Air Force, and Qatar Emiri Air Force take part in responding too, and evaluating the response too, a simulated aircraft accident on the runway at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Oct. 3, 2017.

    Exercise Atlas Mountain brings together three coalition partners, puts flight line safety to the test

    After months of planning, the U.S. Air Force joined with its coalition partners from the United Kingdom and Qatar to take part in an exercise on the runway at Al Udeid Air Base. The exercise, originally proposed by the UK in order to satisfy internal safety requirements, was designed to test the effectiveness of an emergency response to an aircraft accident on the runway. By the time the exercise took place on Oct. 3, it involved around 120 to 150 service members from three coalition forces.
  • U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Johan Pena, foreground, junior controller and Staff Sgt. Takneisha Boatright, senior controller, both assigned to the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron/Air Mobility Command Center, sit at their computers in the AMCC at Al Udeid, Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 22, 2017.

    Whether you are coming to Al Udeid or leaving, the Air Mobility Command Center is here to make sure you have what you need

    Every aircraft flying into or out of Al Udeid Air Base on a mission with the U.S. Air Mobility Command, begins and ends their time on base with a call to someone at the Air Mobility Command Center operated by the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron.
  • In the cargo bay of a C-130 Hercules from the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, two loadmasters hold up a U.S. flag.

    A journey of military service and faith

    In the cargo bay of a C-130 Hercules from the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, two loadmasters hold up a U.S. flag. The flag has meaning, memories and a story to U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Isela Gonzalez, chaplain assistant with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Chapel. With a stern look, she recites the oath of enlistment and the next chapter of the flag’s journey begins.
  • U.S. Air Force Capt. Rafael Toro-Quinones, officer in charge assigned to the Air Force Central Command Band, Touch-n-Go, listens to the band during a recording session where the band recorded their punk rock rendition of the Air Force Song at Al Udeid, Air Force Base, Qatar, Sept. 21, 2017.

    The AFCENT Band, Touch-n-Go, records their punk rock rendition of the Air Force Song

    Members of the U.S. Air Force Central Command Band, Touch-n-Go, set up a temporary recording studio and cut their own punk rock rendition of the Air Force Song at Al Udeid, Air Force Base, Qatar, Sept. 21, 2017.
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