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  • Radio frequency: Always on

    The radio frequency transmissions shop maintains a range of radio equipment from high frequency weather update systems to ultra-high frequency satellite communications. The technicians find, maintain, fix, or replace broken communications equipment in underground bunkers or on towers.The

  • EOD: Defusing the situation

    One of the biggest defense mechanisms of any expeditionary air base is the ability to launch aircraft to neutralize threats. Several 380th Air Expeditionary Wing agencies are charged with getting air operations back up and running as soon as possible should the flightline or runway be attacked. The

  • RPA mission encompasses skilled operators, maintainers

    Early intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions consisted of a floating balloon or a single propeller plane flying at low altitude and a pilot using binoculars to piece together information. Today, we have aircraft flying up to 60,000 ft. for more than 20 hours at a time with high

  • Public Health: Maintaining a healthy force

    Communicable diseases have the ability to spread throughout an area rapidly. Some spread in days, others in seconds. It is the 380th Expeditionary Medical Group Public Health office's job to prevent the spread of disease. The staff of two performs food and public sanitation inspections on 20

  • Ammo tour highlights hard work

    Base leadership and operations group Airmen from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing took a tour of the temporary munitions storage area July 15 here that culminated in building a bomb.The tour was hosted by the 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron munitions flight, which builds, maintains and

  • New commander takes lead in air campaign

    U.S. Air Forces Central Command now has a new leader.In a change of command ceremony here July 11, Lt. Gen. John W. Hesterman III took command of USAFCENT from Lt. Gen. David Goldfein.U.S. Army General Lloyd J. Austin III, the Commander of U.S. Central Command presided over the ceremony."The power

  • Aerospace physiology helps keep members effective

    Members of the Air Force are constantly looking for new ways to be more effective through innovative ideas and processes. But what if the answer to individual effectiveness, both in our personal and professional lives is as simple as small changes to our daily routines?According to Capt. Zach

  • Exercising to honor, inspire

    At the beginning of their deployment, a team of four Royal Air Force members from the No. 1 Air Control Center set out to exercise their way back to Lincoln, England, roughly 3,400 miles away, in honor of United Kingdom and U.S. service members who have been injured or killed in contingency