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  • Photo essay: Checkpoint defenders

    Airmen with the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron watch over the flightline at a non-disclosed location in Southwest Asia on Jan. 16, 2009. Air Force security forces Airmen ensure the security of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing areas of operation and protect millions of dollars worth of

  • Photo essay: KC-10 Extender returns from combat air refueling

    A KC-10 Extender deployed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., returns from a combat air refueling mission at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 6, 2010. The KC-10, assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, is one of Air Mobility Command's air refueling aircraft

  • Photo essay: Night-time flightline ops in Southwest Asia

    Airmen and aircraft assigned to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing stay busy on the flightline 24 hours a day, seven days a week supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.These images highlight some of that effort on Jan. 10, 2010.

  • Photo essay: E-3 Sentry returns from mission in Southwest Asia

    A maintenance Airman waves an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft to come in to park on the flightline of a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 10, 2010, after it completed a combat mission. The aircraft and Airmen, assigned to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, support

  • Photo essay: Security overwatch in Southwest Asia

    Airmen assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron watch over millions of dollars of Air Force assets on the flightline at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 8, 2010. The 380th ESFS and the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring

  • Photo essay: KC-10s Extenders ready to go

    KC-10 Extender aircraft assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, are parked on the flightline at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 1, 2010. The KC-10 is one of the airframes in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility that provides