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  • NFL coaches visit Bagram Airmen

    Four National Football League coaches visited Bagram Airfield here Independence Day to shake hands, sign autographs and hopefully, according to one coach, spread a few smiles.Coaches Andy Reid of the Philadelphia Eagles, Brad Childress of the Minnesota Vikings, Marvin Lewis of the Cincinnati Bengals

  • CMSAF visits Bagram Airfield, engages Airmen

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy met with Airmen at Bagram Airfield here June 24-25, seeing firsthand the diverse missions contributing to Afghanistan's security and development. Chief Roy toured the base and spoke with Airmen of all ranks to see what the Air Force is doing to support

  • Bogus tourniquets could endanger lives in combat

    Counterfeit models of the U.S. Army's Combat Application Tourniquet are available on the Internet and on the open market. Using the counterfeits can be lethal and the Army considered this enough of a problem to send out a priority message April 14 sounding the alert on these bogus devices. "While I

  • The 455th Supplies the Fight

    Earlier this month in Afghanistan, a small unit of coalition ground forces found themselves in a tight spot. The unit had already traveled a great distance to support an operation aimed squarely at the Taliban and they'd exhausted their food and water. Navigating through a deep gorge in a

  • 455th ESFS Airman Receives Purple Heart

    On June 11, 2010, Col. Jack Briggs, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, commander, honored Airman 1st Class Giovanni Flores with the Order of the Purple Heart, in front of more than 75 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen."This is a rare but distinguished occasion for all of us," Col.

  • 455th Expeditionary Operations Group changes command

    455th Expeditionary Operations Group Airmen welcomed their new commander during a formal change of command ceremony here, June 8, 2010Col. Scott C. Long, previously assigned as the Director of Operations for Alaskan Command and Joint Task Force-Alaska Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, assumed

  • 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group changes command

    455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group Airmen welcomed their new commander during a formal change of command ceremony here, June 8, 2010Col. Tom D. Miller, previously assigned as a National Defense Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., assumed command from Col. Lawrence Gatti.

  • Paktika PRT SECFOR: All roads lead home

    The list of hometowns reads like an I-85/I-26 roadmap: Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Waterloo.Regardless of their individual starting points, they are together here, making a difference in Afghanistan.The soldiers assigned to the B/1-178th Field Artillery Regiment, South Carolina Army National