Sept. 26, 2017 JB Charleston crew provides Maria relief within hours Members of the 14th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a humanitarian mission in support of Hurricane Maria to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sept. 23, 2017.
Aug. 29, 2017 774th EAS conducts first combat airdrop in two and a half years BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Months of planning and weeks of preparing culminates to an airdrop lasting a few seconds. While the time and effort that goes into planning a combat airdrop may seem long for something that lasts less than a minute, for the ground troops, the equipment they received
Aug. 9, 2017 Travis aircrew fly wounded Soldiers to Germany after insider attack Six aircrew members from Travis Air Force Base, California, flew a C-17 Globemaster III into Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan June 18 to medevac five U.S. Army special operators who were wounded in an insider attack at Camp Shaheen, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Aug. 8, 2017 Mobility Guardian provides valuable C-130 hot defueling training JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Mobility Guardian is offering training in many Mobility capabilities, including one that is unfamiliar to many Airmen due to its scarce use in recent years, hot defueling.Hot defueling involves offloading fuel from an aircraft while the engines are running and
Aug. 4, 2017 Dobbins, other Reserve C-130 units team up for training exercise in Rockies DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. – Train as you fight and fight as you train. So goes the old adage about putting in the work required in practice to perform effectively under pressure. The same is true for Dobbins as it must prepare its C-130s to perform in a variety of locations as required by the
May 23, 2017 Ruck march honors Gold Star families, fallen warriors Nearly 300 people participated in the 7th Annual Gold Star Families Ruck March at Travis Air Force Base, California May 20.
April 24, 2017 Reserve defenders keep watch A group of Citizen Airmen from the 507th Security Forces Squadron here deployed March 31 to Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, to support the Afghan Air Force in their fight against insurgents in support of NATO’s Resolute Support mission.
April 18, 2017 Exercise Folded Flag tests USAF mortuary affairs' capabilities The Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, in conjunction with Team Dover active duty and Reserve units, and off-base Army, Marine and Navy units, conducted Folded Flag 2017, a mass fatality exercise, April 7 - 13, 2017, here.
March 3, 2017 Expeditionary aeromedical squadron creates mobile ICU BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The intensive care unit that the 455th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron operates out of the back of a C-130J Hercules is a different scene entirely. An intensive care unit is usually a sterile environment, white hospital walls, pristine floors, bright fluorescent
Feb. 8, 2017 Pope Air Force unit lynchpin to Global Response Force mission Pope AAF is the second busiest en-route location in the Air Force and the launching point of the 82nd ABN, America’s Global Response Force. When called up, the base must be able to receive aircraft, then load and deploy Soldiers and their equipment in a very short time with little notice.