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  • Bagram's Airmen 'Win'

    Airmen from the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing are hard at work each and every day fulfilling the wing's mission: "Support the fight and defend the base." The successful fulfillment of these two mission priorities culminate in the wing's third priority: "win."According to the wing's commander, Maj.

  • EC-130H squadron hits major milestones

    Maintainers of the EC-130H Compass Call at Bagram Airfield have a lot to be proud of. Not only does the squadron maintain the Air Force's only EC-130H aircraft fleet, it facilitated several significant milestones while in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.The 455th Expeditionary Aircraft

  • ISAF commander views CAS mission first hand

    The commander of International Security Assistance Force experienced close air support first hand when he received an orientation flight Nov. 17 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.Marine Gen. John R. Allen, ISAF commander, flew in a 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-15E Strike Eagle to experience

  • Coalition Forces 70, Taliban 0

    F-15E Strike Eagles from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 121st EFS dropped more than 9,000 lbs of munitions through severe weather on enemy forces trying to overrun a combat outpost in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2011. According to reports, up

  • Eid al-Adha bonds PRT community

    As Muslims across the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, service members in Afghanistan shared the tradition at Forward Operating Base Gardez Nov. 6, 2011.Soldiers and Airmen with Provincial Reconstruction Team Paktya shared a traditional Eid dinner with the team's cultural advisors and linguists; taking

  • Afghan women learn life-saving techniques

    Thirteen Afghan women received life-saving first aid training at a provincial women's development center shura (meeting) held in Paktya province, Nov. 1, 2011.U.S. servicemembers assigned to the Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Nebraska Agribusiness Development Team, both located on

  • AFCENT Band 'Top Cover' performs for troops

    The U.S. Air Forces Central band 'Top Cover' performed at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Oct. 28, 2011. The band is conducting a tour of seven countries, with more than 80 performances.

  • BEAR Base grapples tough building projects in Afghanistan

    Wind and rapid changes of climate can be detrimental to air assets throughout the U.S. Air Forces Central area of responsibility, and housing those and other assets is vital to the mission. That's why AFCENT relies on a group of highly-specialized, expeditionary Airmen from Holloman Air Force Base,

  • PRT Airman credits diet, exercise in achieving her weight-loss goal

    Senior Airman Roza Kowal, a Provincial Reconstruction Team Paktya supply specialist from Chicago, has been described by her friends as professional, intelligent and organized. Now, thanks to her deployment to Afghanistan, she can add 'athletic' to the list. Kowal, an Airman deployed from Luke Air