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  • Solar power lights up Southwest Asia

    The Air Force continually looks for means to do things leaner and cleaner, even in deployed locations.It probably goes unnoticed by the majority of personnel at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, but solar-powered light carts are paving the road to an environmentally friendlier future in Southwest

  • Honor Guardsmen display honor, kinship

    He gets off work, lets out a heavy sigh and walks to the bus stop. It's his sixth day of working 12 hours, and they're catching up to him. He desires to go to his dorm to get some rest, but something deeper in him drives him to go to practice instead. He is a member of the 380th Air Expeditionary

  • Send holiday cheer home

    Airmen, Soldiers and civilians have an opportunity to spread some cheer to their friends and families this holiday season.With the availability of the internet, it is simple to email friends and family a picture, and now the chapel has provided the perfect backdrop, what they call a diorama.Located

  • Self-sustaining unit builds improvements

    Throughout the Air Force, units depend on each other to successfully complete the mission. For example, without supply, maintainers wouldn't have the parts needed to make repairs. Very few units can function independent of other support elements. Here at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, there is

  • New Exchange has shoppers in frenzy

    Shoppers at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing got a taste of home Saturday as they experienced the thrill of holiday shopping. Many waited hours in line for the grand opening of the newly constructed Exchange, hoping to discover a coveted item they were previously unable to find."I got off work at 5

  • Fly-away kit provides immediate communication capability in remote locations

    When an aircraft crashes in the desert, can the on-scene commander relay crucial, secure information back to his home station about it?He can if he has a communications fly-away kit.Airmen of the 380th Expeditionary Communications Squadron radio frequency transmission systems section are responsible

  • Mental health helps Airmen cope with deployment, holiday blues

    When an Airman starts wiping tears with facial tissue instead of wrapping gifts in tissue paper, or is feeling blue because the primary color he or she sees is tan, where can they go for relief?The 380th Expeditionary Medical Group mental health team can help 380th Air Expeditionary Wing members

  • Vehicle management flight moves 380th AEW mission

    The flight crew is ready to board the aircraft and the refueling technician is waiting to refuel it.Without the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Vehicle Management flight, neither will get the mission off the ground.The vehicle management flight is in charge of the 380th Air

  • Structures Airmen 380th AEW's 'handymen'

    When a homeowner needs to redo a wall, repair the roof, and re-key a lock, several calls must be made.The Air Force only has to make one.Structural maintainers are "like the carpenters, welders, roofers and handymen, kind of all rolled up into one," said Tech. Sgt. Howard Jones, 380th Expeditionary