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  • Airman shines when tasked to set up squadron

    Every now and then an Airman is given a special task. These tasks may include working longer hours, organizing meetings, forming committees...or maybe starting a squadron. The latter was the task given to Tech. Sgt. Lisa Bitton, a 13-year, active-duty veteran from Minot Air Force Base, N. D., who is

  • Air National Guard units execute GWOT with a rainbow plan

    Members of the Illinois and Minnesota Air National Guard have partnered together to form the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's C-130 Aircraft Maintenance Unit. This type of partnership is called "rainbowing," a concept often used by C-130 units. "The rainbow concept puts like

  • Illinois Air National Guard supports Bears, Operation Enduring Freedom

    Senior Airman Kimberly Letherman will be watching her favorite team, the Chicago Bears, on Super Bowl Monday. That's right--Super Bowl Monday. With a nine-and-a-half-hour-time difference with the United States, Airmen in Afghanistan will watch the Super Bowl in the early hours of Monday morning.

  • Chief of Staff visits Bagram Airmen

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Rodney McKinley visited Bagram and Kandahar airfields Feb. 2 during a tour of Afghanistan. The general addressed the Airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing and 451st Air Expeditionary Group, discussing

  • Small Diameter Bomb debuts in Afghanistan

    A 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-15E Strike Eagle dropped a Guided Bomb Unit-39B on a target in Afghanistan, Jan. 27. It was the first time the GBU-39B was used in the Afghanistan area of responsibility. The release occurred while the F-15E flew a close air support mission for International

  • Air Force takes on Task Force Med

    - The 455th Expeditionary Medical Group activated and the Air Force took responsibility for CJTF-76's Task Force Medical during a transfer of authority ceremony here Jan. 23.During the ceremony, Col. Bart Iddins assumed command of the 455th EMDG, and then succeeded Army Col. Jeffrey Haun as the task

  • EMXG Gets New Commander

    The 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group welcomed a new commander during a change-of-command ceremony held here Jan. 21. Brigadier Gen. Christopher Miller presided over the ceremony in which Col. Frank Stokes took command from Col. Carl Bess. The ceremony used an F-15 Strike Eagle as a backdrop.

  • Mehtar Lam works with ANP

    Efforts to improve the Afghan National Police continued in Laghman Province as nine ANP field-training instructors graduated from the Mehtar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team policing course Tuesday. Ethics, patrols and checkpoint operations served as the primary focus for the student trainers