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  • More than meets the eye: Maintainers inspect below the surface

    AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar—Every day, equipment and aircraft are being worn down and degraded with every use. Often, the metal fatigue that occurs goes on with no visible signs, and can lead to a host of problems. In order to prevent malfunctions and breakages due to this invisible wear and tear, the

  • Metals technology shop: You need it, they build it

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Walker, a fabrication flight metals technician with the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, welds components together at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Feb. 2, 2017. Walker was creating a spring tensioning tool that was commissioned by the U.S. Navy. (U.S. Air Force

  • RED HORSE Airmen lay the foundation for air power

    Airmen with the 557th Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron smooth and spread concrete at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, during construction on the close air support ramp, Jan. 31, 2017. The 557th ERHS Airmen are laying the foundation for an aircraft maintenance workshop and administration building. (U.S. Air

  • Forging partnerships: AF, Royal Navy medical teams train onboard HMS Ocean

    HMS OCEAN, Persian Gulf — Over the course of five days, medical personnel from the 379th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron and Royal Navy worked together to test their capabilities during coalition exercise Azraq Serpent, Jan. 23 – 27.  In a joint effort between U.S. Central Command

  • Blood transshipment Airmen: The veins of the AOR

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Celina Garcia, a medical logistics technician with the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group blood transshipment center, drives a 10K forklift in order to move a pallet of blood units at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Jan. 27, 2017. A selection of Airmen within the blood

  • 379th medical teams join coalition forces onboard HMS Ocean

    U.S. Air Force Airmen with the 379th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron prepare to board a U.S. Navy SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Jan. 23, 2017. Two Sea Hawks transported the Airmen to the HMS Ocean, a Royal Navy ship, where they participated in a coalition exercise

  • Shaping the total force: Guardsmen in the theater

    AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar—During a visit here, Jan. 4, Air National Guard Director Lt. Gen. L. Scott Rice delivered a message of continued resiliency as he expressed his gratitude to members serving in the ANG and encouraged them on the rest of their deployment in the U.S. Central Command area of

  • Civil engineer Airmen light up the new year

    AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar— A team of four creative 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Airmen restored a three-year-old New Year’s Eve ball to light up the night at Al Udeid in celebration of the upcoming new year, 2017.   It all started when Staff Sgt. Kimberly Douglas, a contracting office

  • 8th EAMS expedites the fight

    AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar—“You need it, we move it.” That is the saying of Airmen with the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron who enable rapid global mobility every day here at one of U.S. Central Command’s busiest en route stations.“We are the middle man for the area of responsibility, and

  • Al Udeid Airmen volunteer to build JFAK’s for theater operations

    Service members volunteered to help put together more than 3,000 joint first aid kits at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Dec. 20, 2016. The JFAK’s are distributed to Airmen going into potential areas of conflict, and are used to save hundreds of lives every year.