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Remember Your Heart's Health This Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a brightly colored fun filled holiday with chocolate, flowers, love poems and appreciation for your significant other. While deployed, it can be exciting for an Airman to anticipate and wait for their special someone to get their thoughtful surprise from overseas.
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2/14
2018
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ANG Director visits Guardsmen downrange
Lt. Gen. Scott Rice, director of the Air National Guard, and Chief Master Sgt. Ronald Anderson, command chief master sergeant of the Air National Guard takes a selfie with Senior Airman Morgan McCormick, 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, electronic protection technician at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates Dec. 26, 2017. Rice texted
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12/26
2017
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Delivering Christmas Gifts to Deployed Service Members
As families across the world finish up their holiday shopping and begin wrapping presents, some of those gifts will not make it underneath their Christmas trees.
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12/20
2017
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Veterans Day while deployed
Legacy, Honor, Freedom, Valor, and Patriotism. These are some of the underlying tones speaking to us on what we know as Veterans Day.Unfailingly for 98 years, America has remembered the uniformed members serving our country on November 11, first as Armistice Day, later renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and
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11/10
2017
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The Airmen behind the Global Hawk
If anyone were to look inside an RQ-4 Global Hawk they would see nothing but an inorganic mix of hardware and wires, with no seat for a pilot. Measuring 130 feet in width, this remotely piloted aircraft is capable of traversing 12,300 nautical miles in a single mission. The Global Hawk can fly up to 60,000 feet in altitude, some of which are controlled by Airmen assigned to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.
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5/31
2016
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F-15E WSO, bro joins 1,000 combat flight hours club
A 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Airman completed his 1,000 combat hour in the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, April 9. The 1,000 hour milestone, an equivalent to more than 40 days in combat, is lauded as a rare achievement, which some flyers never achieve. Lt. Col. Bash, 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron
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4/12
2016
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Exercise Desert Flag wraps up in Southwest Asia
U.S. and coalition personnel wrapped up their participation in Exercise Desert Flag, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, March 30.Desert Flag, also known as Exercise IRON FALCON 16-2, is a three-week long joint and multilateral U.S. Air Forces Central Command-led exercise held semi-annually in Southwest Asia. “Desert Flag is a coalition
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4/07
2016
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HVAC Airmen winning on deployed frontier: one a/c unit at a time
No matter the job, each Airman provides a vital service – engaging issues on their own battlefront to ensure the mission goes as smoothly as possible, from the Soldiers who oversee the Patriot missile batteries to the services Airmen who ensure personnel have meals to eat and a place to sleep. Airmen from the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineering
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3/15
2016
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380th AEW welcomes Vice President and Dr. Biden
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, met with more than 1,000 service members assigned to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and their coalition partners from five nations at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, March 7, 2016. Brig. Gen. Daniel Orcutt, 380th AEW commander, and 1st Lt. Karen, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft
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3/07
2016
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New aircraft trainer allows firefighter cutting edge training
Firefighters from the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron were presented a new piece of training equipment by the 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron’s Fabrication Flight during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here, Feb. 19.The fire department search and rescue aircraft trainer resembles the main body of a C-130 frame and serves as a
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2/29
2016
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