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  • Deployed Airmen replace money stolen from little girls in Georgia

    Members from the 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron, here, collected $160 to replace money stolen from three little girls in Warner Robins, Ga., April 14, 2011. On April 13, Capt. Charles Marquez, 455th EAPS Air Terminal Operation Center officer in charge read, an article about how the girls

  • Bagram provides humanitarian assistance after landslide

    Airmen from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, here, delivered more than 17,000 pounds of supplies to Afghanistan's Balkh Province, 7 April. The emergency drop, which included food, water and blankets, was part of the Air Force and Army's aid effort for the residents of the Northern Province,

  • JTACs deliver airpower for ground forces in Afghanistan

    Perched on an mountaintop in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, an Airman hunkers down in the frigid, sodden darkness monitoring the Soldiers in the valley below as he speaks with the pilots above."Wow, I can hear the hail coming down over the radio," exclaims the B-1B Lancer pilot flying

  • PRT Kapisa brightens future for girls of Kapisa.

    KAPISA PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Kapisa Ministry of Education officials, the Gulab Kapisa Construction Company and members of Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team co-hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Kohi Girls' School in Afghanya, Afghanistan, March 28 to celebrate the completion of the

  • 766th AES deactivates, marks change for Afghanistan's JET Airmen

    Deputy Commander-Air, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Charles Lyon, presided over the 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron's change of command, here, 23 March. The ceremony marks more than a transfer of command from Lt. Col. Kenneth Bowling to Lt. Col. Jeffrey Collins. It indicates a change in how

  • 455th ESFS named best in AFCENT

    The 455th Expeditionary Security Force Squadron here was recently named Air Force Central Command's 2010 Outstanding Large Expeditionary Security Forces Unit.The Air Force's largest security forces squadron was recognized for their contributions to Operation Enduring Freedom supporting the

  • Bagram opens Afghanistan's first C-130 hangar

    Members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing opened Afghanistan's first permanent C-130 hangar during a ribbon cutting ceremony here March 14. The newly completed hangar is a milestone for 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maintainers who have waited nearly two years for the