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  • Preparing the pilot for success

    Most Airmen have seen an aircraft take off. They hear the hum of a taxiing jet. It sits at the end of the runway, and then zooms across the landscape as if it were shot from a cannon at a thousand miles per hour. The F-16 fighter lifts off en route to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines

  • Bagram Airmen ring in the new year

    It wasn't quite Times Square but the cold of the night didn't deter the men and women of Bagram Airfield from saying goodbye to 2009 and welcoming in 2010.Complete with a replica 2010 ball created by the 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron and free hot chocolate and cider from the 455th

  • USAFCENT Command Chief visits Bagram Airfield

    The 455th Air Expeditionary Wing welcomed the newest U.S. Air Forces Central Command Chief for his immersion tour of Afghanistan operations Dec. 28-30, 2009. Command Chief Master Sgt. Mark Villella, who replaced Chief Master Sgt. Scott Dearduff Dec. 9, 2009, came to Bagram to gain perspective on the

  • MC-12 arrives, heralds activation of 4th ERS

    The Air Force's new MC-12 aircraft arrived Dec. 27, 2009, to Bagram Airfield. Tail number 090623 was the first of an undisclosed number of aircraft for the new 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron here.Following the MC-12's arrival, the 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron was activated to

  • 'Taliban hotel' destroyed

    Soldiers located at Combat Outpost Spera partnered with members of the Afghan National Army to destroy a multi-room building, used to protect insurgents as they travelled through Khost province, Dec. 18.U.S. Army 707th Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, out of Fort Lewis, Wash.; 3rd Scout Platoon,

  • Provincial government, PRT dedicate Kunar’s first midwifery program

    The Kunar provincial governor, national and provincial government leaders, and the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team recently dedicated the province's first midwifery training center to decrease Afghan maternal and infant mortality rates. Fazlullah Wahidi, Kunar provincial governor, Dr. Najilla,

  • Provincial government, PRT building Afghanistan's future through schools

    The future of Afghanistan is its children, and the Kunar provincial government and Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team are working together to build that future by delivering new schools.On a recent trip through the southern part of the province, PRT engineers did construction quality checks on