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386th NEWS

  • USAFA cadets train for future at 386 AEW

    SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Each summer, rising juniors at the U.S. Air Force Academy travel to military bases across the globe to get a first-hand look at how support and operational functions work together to accomplish a wing’s mission.This year, the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing hosted approximately twenty

  • COMACC visits 386th AEW, praises Airmen’s contributions to the fight

    SOUTHWEST ASIA -- U.S. Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, his wife, Mrs. Gillian Carlisle, and Chief Master Sgt. Steve K. McDonald, command chief master sergeant of ACC, visited Airmen deployed with the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing at an undisclosed location in Southwest

  • Rock Solid Warrior: Staff Sgt. Ryan Rathke

    I’m Staff Sgt. Ryan Rathke, a 386th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron deputy airfield manager. I am deployed from the 21st Operations Support Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. I joined the Air Force because I always had a deep desire to serve my country. I saw the Air Force as

  • Scores of reservists join Total Force effort

    About 200 Air Force reservists from the 439th Airlift Wing are deployed to a pair of undisclosed locations here as well as in Baghdad. Capt. Kristin Montville and Tech Sgt. Jonathan Colwell are among these Airmen, whose home station is Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., and they make up two-thirds of

  • Vehicle maintenance keeps mission rolling in support of OIR

    Staff Sgt. Joseph Petrie, 386th Vehicle Management Flight, mission generation vehicular equipment maintenance journeyman, replaces a vehicle injection control pump at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Jan. 4, 2016 supporting Operation INHERENT RESOLVE. The 386th vehicle management flight

  • Rock Solid Warrior: Staff Sgt. Steven Stein

    I am Staff Sgt. Steven Stein, a 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron electrical systems craftsman, deployed from the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.   My job as an electrical systems craftsman is to install, maintain and repair airfield lighting systems, and

  • AF, Marine and Army EOD train, learn from each other

    Air Force, Marine and Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from throughout the area of responsibility came together for the first time to train at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia Dec. 14-18. The five-day training exercise included more than 40 staged improvised explosive device

  • Airman helps troubled youth “Focus” with non-profit mentorship program

    Even while deployed to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in support of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, Tech. Sgt. Tyron Fields is making a difference for the youth in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina through a non-profit mentorship program called “Focus.” The program aims to help direct kids

  • Tops in Blue rocks The Rock

    Tops in Blue vocalist Senior Airman Jordan Whitehead performs during a recent visit to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Dec. 16, 2015. Comprised of 40 active-duty Airmen, the expeditionary entertainment group travels worldwide to entertain military

  • CSAF, CMSAF visit Airmen deployed to 332nd AEW

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A Welsh III and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody address questions from Airmen currently deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Dec. 10, 2015. Welsh and Cody visited the base to express their