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  • Ceremonies recognize cooperation, teamwork

    Hundreds of community members and civic leaders attended two ribbon-cutting ceremonies Nov. 27 in Kohistan II, recognizing the completion of months of work and cooperation between the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Afghan government. Kwaia Kholam Abubaker, the governor of Kapisa, and

  • Bagram Airmen launch ‘care strikes’ to spread cheer

    For the last two months, a group of Airmen have been conducting what some are calling "care strikes," to enhance morale among servicemembers here. Capt. Ken Valardi, the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Chaplain and his assistant, Staff Sgt. Aaron Smith, began the project in September with the delivery

  • Air Force neurosurgeon saves Afghan child’s life

    An Air Force neurosurgeon assigned to the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here recently saved the life of an 8-month-old Afghan girl. The young child, from Parwan Province, was originally taken by her parents to El Salem Egyptian Field Hospital with symptoms including excessive head growth, eye

  • Hard at work, Airmen celebrate Thanksgiving with deployed ‘family’

    While millions of Americans celebrated Thanksgiving Day away from work in the company of their families, Airmen here remained on the job, providing nonstop airpower and combat support for Coalition forces throughout Afghanistan. Across the country, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen fueled, loaded,

  • Deployed Thanksgiving offers a taste of home

    For many people, Thanksgiving is usually a holiday spent with family, food, some television, and probably a nap on the recliner. For Airmen here, the only similarity to that formula was the food. Knowing that Airmen miss the comforts of home on this day more than most, food service providers here

  • President wishes Happy Thanksgiving to Bagram Airman

    It's not every day that an Airman can pick up the phone and talk to his commander in chief, but for one Bagram Airman that day was today. Airman 1st Class Chris Ericksen, a fuel distribution systems operator deployed from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing here, received

  • Bagram Airmen named top maintainers

    Two Bagram Airmen were recently recognized as being among the best in their professions. Maj. Jennifer Hammerstedt, commander of the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron and Senior Master Sgt. Brian Gilbert, Assistant Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of the 336th Aircraft Maintenance Unit,