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  • Wing honors new promotees, award winners

    Members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing honored the Wing's newest promotees, top performers and outstanding contributor during the monthly recognition ceremony here May 1. The newly-appointed NCOs and senior NCOs in attendance were administered their respective charges by members of the 455th

  • Career Milestone: 335th Mission, 1000th Hour, 335th EFS

    Rewind 17 years to 1991. Then 1st Lt. Travis Willis flew his first combat sortie in an F-111F Aardvark on night one of Operation DESERT STORM. Fast forward 1,000 combat hours to March 31, 2008 when aircrew and maintenance members of the 335 Expeditionary Fighter Squadron congratulated Lt. Col.

  • Art of War

    When the Taliban took power in 1996, they imposed a new way of life and removed basic freedoms for the people of Afghanistan. Among those freedoms was the banishment of art. For more than a decade, art has been missing from this historic society. So a group of 39 artists from Task Force MED wanted

  • Bagram Airmen provide ANP training

    Approximately one dozen Afghan National Police from several districts gathered in the Processing Coordination Center at the Parwan Provincial ANP Headquarters in the Charikar district to receive training April 22. Airmen filling an in-lieu-of taskings assigned to the Bagram Police Technical Advisory

  • Bagram PRT host women's affair meeting

    Education, employment and security were the common themes addressed by eight influential Afghan women during a women's affair seminar here hosted by the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team. Business owners, government leaders, educators, multi-media and non-governmental organization

  • Airman convicted of larceny

    A technical sergeant assigned to the 755th Air Expeditionary Group was tried at a special court-martial here April 14. Tech. Sgt. Trent A. Aistrope faced one charge and specification of Article 121 of the UCMJ for larceny after stealing $1,500 from a wallet he found. The member pled guilty and

  • ‘487’ more than just paint

    Airmen from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here are making history daily, as the "Chiefs" from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., take the fight to the Anti-Afghanistan Forces in combat operations throughout Afghanistan. But one of the squadron's aircraft, F-15E Strike Eagle #89-0487,

  • Predators of the Mountains

    In an environment where the enemy conceals themselves among civilians and mountainous terrain, the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron provides the warfighter real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data to combat the enemy. The weapon of choice: MQ-1 Predator. The unit

  • Charleston Airman recognized as 'Warrior of the Week'

    An Airman deployed here from the 437th Aerial Port Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., was recently highlighted as the 'Warrior of the Week.' Airman 1st Class Ryan Amos, 451st Air Expeditionary Group air transportation journeyman, was recognized by his supervisors and leadership for his

  • 305th ERQS outside the box

    Locating and returning downed pilots, aircrew and special operation forces in the area of responsibility has taken a back seat for the Airmen of the 305th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron here. Filling a role outside their traditional Combat Search and Rescue duties, the 451st Air Expeditionary Group