Team supplies ammo to win the fight

Ammo makes the mission - as the saying goes. At Kandahar Air Field the ammo mission falls to a three-man flight. "We maintain and provide munitions to U.S. and Coalition Forces," said Master Sgt. James Bradley, the munitions accountable systems officer for the 451st Air Expeditionary Group Logistics

Controlling the sky

Flying high in the sky

Ten militants killed, thirteen detain in Nangarhar and Khost

Coalition forces killed ten armed militants and detained thirteen militants during multiple operations aimed at disrupting the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist networks in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, Friday. In Acheen, a regional Taliban commander was the target of a Coalition forces operation which

Hyperbaric chamber to study traumatic-brain-injury treatment

The San Antonio Military Medical Center Hyperbaric Center and the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine received funding to study the effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on mild to moderate traumatic brain injuries. The study hopes to find additional ways to treat wounded warriors with traumatic

Yellow Ribbon program helps welcome troops, families 'home' after deployment

Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command has a new office charged with ensuring deploying reservists and their families are well taken care of. The Office of Deployment Cycle Support manages the command's Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. "The program helps Airmen and their families face the

Bringing the information together

The Provincial Reconstruction Team in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, has developed a method that will ease the process of construction planning throughout Regional Command-East. It's called district mapping. All construction plans are plotted onto a map that includes plans that have been

Afghan and Coalition forces target IED networks

Afghan and Coalition forces detained four suspected insurgents during operations targeting the Haqqani and Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) and foreign fighter networks in Khost and Ghazni provinces, Thursday. In Tirzaye District, Afghan and Coalition forces detained two suspected

Afghan commandos capture 2 insurgents, kill 1 in Herat province

Afghan National Security Forces, assisted by Coalition forces, Tuesday detained two insurgents and killed one in Zer-e-koh Valley, Shindand District, Herat province. Elements of the Afghan National Army Commandos conducted a raid on the safe house of Taliban Commander Nangali Khan. During the

Petraeus visits Bagram Air Field

The top U.S. Commander for Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, visited Bagram Air Field Thursday to talk with commanders and get an updated assessment of the war on terror. During his first visit to Afghanistan since becoming the commander of U.S. Central Command, Petraeus talked about the