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  • Eagle Flag exercise expands, achieves new milestones

    Airmen from the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center recorded a significant milestone this week as they hosted their first Defense Support to Civil Authorities exercise involving hundreds of federal, state, local and military participants at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J."The 421st Combat

  • Illinoisan of the Year supports military families

    When servicemembers deploy, most of them end up missing a major holiday with their family.To ease the hardship of missed holidays, local teenagers from "Speak Out for Military Kids" created "Holiday Walk," an event that allows families of servicemembers getting ready to deploy or returning from

  • 305th AMW receives third new C-17 Globemaster III

    The 305th Air Mobility Wing received a new C-17 Globemaster III during a ceremony here July 30.The C-17 is the last of three aircraft being added to the 305th AMW inventory as part of a congressionally-mandated increase in the number of Globemasters throughout Air Mobility Command."With aerial

  • One year later: JB CHS helps keep multinational wing operational

    "I never thought I'd be sitting in the airplane and it'd be me and a Bulgarian or Norwegian copilot with loadmasters from Sweden or Romania," said Maj. Brian Nicosia just after his simulator training here at Joint Base Charleston. Major Nicosia, a United States pilot and chief of tactics for the

  • Fairchild couple make refueling a family affair

    For two Fairchild staff sergeants, air refueling isn't just the wing mission, it's the family business.Staff Sgts. Aaron and Leighann Ray are both boom operators with the 92nd Air Refueling Wing.  Aboard Fairchild's KC-135 Stratotankers, their job is to refuel planes while in flight, keeping Air

  • C-5M Super Galaxy 'flexes muscles' supporting Afghanistan surge

    During a recent operation in support of the nation's 30,000 troop plus-up in Afghanistan, Air Mobility Command's newest C-5 airlifter got a chance to flex its M-model muscles.And according to those closest to the operation, the results were impressive.Dubbed the C-5M Super Galaxy, the newest C-5 to

  • Running the Gambit

    The countdown has begun, and as of July 18, Pope Airmen have 61 days to prepare for what they expect to be one of the greatest accomplishments of their lives. Master Sgt. Roy King, 43rd Force Support Squadron, helped to establish a running group to focus on training for the 2008 Air Force Marathon.

  • Airdrops break records in Afghanistan

    When your unit is surrounded by an enemy hitting you with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar rounds are screaming in and you're running low on food, ammo and everything else, you can't exactly send someone to Wal-Mart for supplies.That's when you pray for an airdrop.