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  • Bagram first to operate new transporter

    The first Air Force High Deck Patient Loading Platform was designated operational with the transfer of five patients during a KC-135 channel mission from Afghanistan to Germany April 9. The HDPLP is a special purpose vehicle with an enclosed lighted and climate-controlled cabin designed to access

  • Oldest USAFE A-10 performing CAS

    For 17 consecutive years the Air Force has been conducting combat operations, flying its aircraft about five times the peacetime rate while forgoing any significant recapitalization. This includes an A-10A Warthog, deployed here from the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, which

  • Locks of Love

    She had long hair all of her life, but during a deployment here she decided to donate 13 inches of it to Locks of Love. "I never had short hair," said Staff Sgt. Jenet Akerson, 451st Expeditionary Communications Flight Network Control Center technician. "I was raised in Hawaii; my mom has long hair,

  • ‘March Madness’ Bagram style

    "Get off me!" There was music blaring, ball slapping, pump fakes, and of course, a lot of trash-talking at the 455th Expeditionary Services Squadron-sponsored 3-on-3 basketball tournament here April 6. The tournament began March 30. But it was teamwork and pure hustle that led a 24th Ordinance

  • No Boundaries

    As part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team, it is common to go "outside the wire" to do work. While some may only leave the base once a week, the engineers are out there every day conducting site assessments, quality control missions, and preparing the province to respond to natural disasters. On

  • Over one million gallons and counting

    The previous record here for transferring one million gallons of fuel from a fuel truck to an aircraft was 73 days. But an Airman deployed here from the 3rd Logistics Readiness Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, recently raised the bar and reached this milestone in a record-setting 64

  • Wing recognizes promotees, monthly award winners

    Unit pride and adulation filled the standing-room-only hangar as members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing honored the Wing's newest promotees, top performers and outstanding contributor during the monthly recognition ceremony here April 1. The newly-appointed NCOs and senior NCOs in attendance

  • Determination and ingenuity prevail

    The 819th RED HORSE Squadron accomplished what some initially thought to be improbable with a successful operational check of a water-well drilling rig here March 21. The rig, one of two in the Air Force's inventory, was shipped from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. in September 2007. After reaching a

  • Heroes from the Home Front

    From home-baked goods to dog tags to microwavable entrees, the Airmen of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron AMMO Flight have received care packages from all over the world from loved ones, or Heroes from the Home Front. The flight is primarily comprised of Airmen deployed from Seymour

  • Airman gives all for the families

    Most people couldn't imagine doing the job of Senior Airman Sekina Moye. Before this deployment...she couldn't either. Airman Moye, a services journeyman assigned to the 755th Air Expeditionary Group, is filling a six-month in-lieu-of tasking with Bagram's Mortuary Affairs. She is the only Air Force