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  • Gen. Dempsey visits Bagram Airfield

    U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hosted a town hall meeting at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on Feb. 26, 2014. Dempsey spent about an hour fielding questions from Service members covering the U.S. military's future involvement in Afghanistan, force reduction

  • 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron

    Construction on the new 455th Expeditionary Operations Group and 455th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron building is reaching completion at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron are working together to ensure the

  • Crew chiefs provide breathing room

    As a white fog begins to form on the ground beneath a C-130J Super Hercules, a masked U.S. Air Force Airman waits patiently until the source of the mist has begun spilling a steady stream from the aircraft. This is not an accident, the C-130J crew chief must wait until a steady stream of liquid

  • Operation FOB The Builder

    Recently, six Airmen ranging from an Airman First Class to a Chief Master Sergeant forward-deployed from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan to complete a four-day mission designed to enhance the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron's Detachment 1 combat capabilities in Jalalabad. This

  • Metals Tech

    U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Alex Introini, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron aircraft machinist and welder, and Senior Airman Allan Rosso, 455 EMXS aircraft metals technologist, manufacture a forward fuel pylon attach fitting wrench kit at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 20, 2014.

  • Helping Afghans to stay warm

    Afghanistan winters can be brutally cold, especially if you have no source of heat.Thanks to a group of Service members at Camp Phoenix, local Afghan families now have a clean convenient source of heat.Twice a week, a group of U.S. and Coalition partner Service members gather for a couple of hours

  • F-16 prepares for mission

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman's Jeremy Guay and Zac Tyson, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs, conducted preflight checks on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 18, 2014.

  • Fueling the mission

    As the busiest single-runway airfield in the Department of Defense, the aircraft at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, must be prepped and ready to go at a moment's notice.But, in order for the aircraft to fly their mission, they need fuel. The mission of the 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness

  • Clear Sky departures from Bagram Airfield

    During the morning of Feb. 15, 2014, there were high wind conditions, which enabled the typical haze to clear and allowed a 360 degree view of the mountains surrounding Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The photos in the slideshow are of aircraft that have taken off from the runway and climbing to their

  • AFCENT Command Chief visits the 455th AEW

    Chief Master Sgt. Shelina Frey, the AFCENT Command Chief, visited the Airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Group in Afghanistan recently.She began her visit with a stop at the 451st Air Expeditionary Group in Kandahar before flying to Bagram for a couple of days. While at Bagram, Chief Frey visited