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  • Night Operations at Bagram Airfield

    Service members deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, work around the clock, ensuring mission success 24 hours a day. Photos are from evening to sunrise. 

  • Maj. Eden brings major joy to Service members

    Regardless of the branch of service an individual belongs to, deployments can be challenging for everyone. When being away from home and the stress of being in a deployed location begins to be too much, there is a furry, four-legged energetic red Labrador Retriever travelling around Afghanistan,

  • Super Bowl party at Kandahar

    Service members at Kandahar Airfield enjoyed pizza and camaraderie at a Super Bowl party.The 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron put on the party, while Pizzas 4 Patriots donated the pizzas. Regardless of their team loyalties, everybody enjoyed the early morning gathering.

  • 455 ELRS Vehicle Maintainers at Work

    Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle maintenance shop keep vehicles mission ready at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 7, 2014. The vehicle maintenance shop is responsible for maintaining and repairing vehicles that are vital to the mission at Bagram.

  • Knocking down buildings, saving money

    When structures on Bagram Airfield have outlived their usefulness, a small group of specialists with the 243rd Construction Management Team here show up with their tools of destruction, ready to handle the toughest jobs.Five Joint Expeditionary Tasked (JET) Airmen from the U.S. Air Force work

  • Bagram Airfield Snow Day

    Snow fall covered Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2014. Snowfall began at approximately 2:30 a.m., with an expected maximum accumulation of four inches.

  • Baltimore Ravens head coach visits Service members

    Baltimore Ravens head coach, John Harbaugh, visited with deployed Service members at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2014.Harbaugh is on a tour through the Middle East with U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Ordeirno."It's a wonderful feeling to have Harbaugh here," said U.S. Air Force

  • Two Airmen, 78 Years of Service

    Two Airmen with the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, have both been turning wrenches on jet engines longer than most people in the U.S. Air Force have been alive.Senior Master Sgt. Paul Jordan, a native of Butler, Pa., enlisted in 1972. His co-worker

  • Airmen Perform F-16 Fighting Falcon Maintenance

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft maintenance unit performed an engine removal on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 22, 2014. Before the engine, that had a bad hydraulic line, could be removed Airmen had to remove  the missiles from the

  • Air Force civilians vital to base operations at Bagram Airfield

    While most people wearing camouflage uniforms on Bagram Airfield may initially look alike, not everybody is actually a military member. If you look closer at the insignia on their uniforms, you'll notice that some are civilians, including many who are U.S. Air Force civilian employees.These