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  • Like fine wine, getting better with AGE

    It’s the minute details of tasks that make what Airmen do so vital to accomplishing their mission. For the Aerospace Ground Equipment flight, these details have a profound impact on flight line operations each day.“We support, maintain and repair aerospace ground equipment,” said Staff Sgt.

  • Choice cuts: BEEFing up the base

    Engineers are known for leading the way. A group of engineers assigned to the Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron, more commonly known as “Prime BEEF”, has been embodying this concept since their arrival just a few short months ago. The 577 EPBS is organized under the 1st

  • Striking the heart of the enemy

    Since November 2014, ISIL has suffered the loss of at least a dozen senior leaders to Coalition airstrikes. Airmen in the Strike Aircraft Maintenance Unit are doing their part to remind the world that arguably no one performs these missions better than the F-15E Strike Eagle.The F-15E Strike Eagle

  • Guardians of the battlefield

    Airmen in the Sentry Aircraft Maintenance Unit may not wear bracelets that allow for cross-universe teleportation or maintain interstellar starships or have laser weapons like the heroes in the Guardians of the Galaxy. However, these Airmen maintain the E-3 Sentry, which makes them heroes to the

  • QA: The ‘bad guys’ we root for

    Have you ever watched a movie, or professional wrestling, and find yourself rooting for the villain at the end?Around the flightline, there’s a group of ‘bad guys’ that represent their career field’s most knowledgeable maintainers and make up the office known as Quality Assurance.“We are the eyes

  • Fueling Airmen one dish at a time

    Nearly 1,500 pounds of T-Bone steak, 600 pounds of lobster and 480 pounds of Cornish hen.Sounds like a plate full, right? On average, the three base dining facilities here serve a combined 3-5K pounds of meat a day. However, this is what it takes to serve nearly 4,000 Surf and Turf meals at the

  • Providing day, night overhead eyesight

    Airmen with the Dragon Aircraft Maintenance Unit may not spit fire or crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons, but what they do possess are the skills necessary to ensure the all-seeing eye remains high in the sky.The U-2 Dragon Lady provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance

  • Small but mighty: ECONS packs a punch

    As a deployed member here in Southwest Asia, we might say that life here is pretty great with all the little things most people take for granted. Now imagine being deployed but this time instead of eating at a dining facility you are eating Meals Ready to Eat, you are having GI parties, you have no

  • Extending combat airpower to all corners of the globe

    Airmen with the Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Extender Aircraft Maintenance Unit here waste no time when answering the call to defend the nation -- even with little to no notice. Although the KC-l0 Extender’s primary mission is aerial refueling, it can combine the tasks of a tanker and

  • More than just a voice

    There is more to the “giant voice” than one might think. Fortunately, you don’t have to travel all the way to Oz to find the true identity of the Airman behind the curtain, or in this case, behind the locked door.Although tasks vary from base to base, Command Post Airmen are responsible for ensuring