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  • Bagram’s fab flight assists Afghan Air Force

    Airmen with the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Fabrication Flight recently used their experience and ingenuity to build a prototype boresight rack adapter for the Afghan Air Force. The boresight rack adapter will be used by the AAF to accurately site their dual-barrel cannons and rockets

  • Night Deliveries

    U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Steve Bordenski, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron loadmaster, guides a palletized howitzer onto a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, May 25, 2015. U.S. Air Force cargo aircraft have delivered 19,900 short tons of cargo throughout

  • Bagram Memorial Day Retreat

    U.S. Airmen assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing participate in a Memorial Day retreat ceremony at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, May 25, 2015. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering U.S. men and women who gave their lives while in military service protecting and defending national

  • Crash recovery team vital to combat frontier’s flying mission

    Airmen assigned to 455th Air Expeditionary Wing’s Crash, Damaged, Disabled Aircraft Recovery Team are always just a phone call away to respond to any in flight emergency or mishaps that occurs here.One such mishap happened recently when an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft departed the runway after

  • 451st EAMXS, 451st ELRS inactivate as forces draw down at KAF

    The 451st Air Expeditionary Group recently inactivated two squadrons as part of ongoing efforts to transition from combat operations to a smaller force focused on a sovereign, stable Afghanistan.The 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness

  • 455th AEW commander, command chief visit Kandahar Airfield

    Brig. Gen. Mark D. Kelly, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing commander, andChief Master Sgt. Jeffery Brown, 455th AEW command chief, visited the 451st AirExpeditionary Group at Kandahar Air Field, May 2-3 as part of a battlefieldcirculation tour to see Airmen and get updated on their ongoing missions. The

  • Krav Maga class delivers self-defense capability, confidence to Bagram Airmen

    Over the past few months Jack Waid, the 455th AirExpeditionary Wing historian, has taught Airmen a martial arts self-defenseclass twice a week.  During the one hour Krav Maga class, Airmen are taught howto use their body’s natural movements to defend against hand to hand, knivesand even close range

  • C-130 maintainers keep the mission going

    Every day, maintainers deployed from Little Rock Air ForceBase work round-the-clock to maintain a fleet of combat-ready C-130J SuperHercules Aircraft.Without these highly trained Airmen the C-130 flying missionat Bagram would come to a standstill.“Maintenance is everything, a plane cannot fix

  • 451st Airmen return damaged MQ-9 to air with hard work, innovation

    A team of 451st Air Expeditionary Group Airmen respondedrecently with innovative thought and hard work to get an MQ-9 Reaper aircraftback flying, only a week after it suffered damage during a non-combat relatedhard landing.Airmen from the 451st AEG safety office and 451stExpeditionary Aircraft

  • 4 FS “Fuujins” redeploy

    The “Fuujins” of the 4th Fighter Squadron assigned to HillAir Force Base, Utah, took to the skies of Afghanistan for the last time, asthey concluded their six month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan April30.The squadron deployed to fulfill the wing’s commitment toproviding decisive combat