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  • C-17 brings global airlift capability to Southwest Asia base

    A C-17 Globemaster III deployed from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., stopped at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on May 19, 2010, for a deployed airlift mission. The C-17 stopped at the base to deliver cargo and passengers for the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing area of operations. According to its

  • Photo essay: C-21 crew brings airlifter to Southwest Asia base

    Aircrew members flew a C-21 airlifter to a non-disclosed base here as part of a mission May 19, 2010, for U.S. Central Command operations to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing.During its stop with the 380th AEW, the C-21 refueled and dropped off cargo and passengers.According to its Air Force and Air

  • KC-10 flight engineer reaches 400 combat missions in Southwest Asia

    It took 11 deployments of working on two different airframes and more than 1,900 flying hours to achieve, but Master Sgt. Clifford C. Hughes surpassed more than 400 combat missions as a flight engineer May 21, 2010, at a non-disclosed base here.Sergeant Hughes, a KC-10 Extender instructor flight

  • Surge participation by McChord reminiscent of the historic Berlin airlift

    Sixty-two years ago on July 2, Airmen in the 1-year-old United States Air Force made history with a mission which airlifted 2.3 million tons of coal, food and supplies to Berlin, Germany after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had cut off all ground transportation through Russia.The Soviet blockade on

  • KC-10 maintainers conquer night shift ops in Southwest Asia

    Maintenance Airmen from the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's Extender aircraft maintenance unit work 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the KC-10 Extender for the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing at a non-disclosed base here. Among them are Airmen working the night shift covering 12

  • KC-10 maintenance: Night work in Southwest Asia

    Maintenance Airmen from the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's Extender aircraft maintenance unit work on a KC-10 Extender during operations for the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on May 1, 2010. In the first three months of 2010, Airmen

  • Deployed fuels Airmen recognized as 'Top Pumpers' for deployed wing

    Five fuels Airmen with the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels management flight earned "Top Pumper" honors for the first four months of 2010.In all, the fuels management flight pumped more than 43 million gallons of fuel in the first four months of 2010 for the 380th Air

  • 375th ASF provides medical care for wounded warriors

    "Prepare to unrack.""Ready.""Unrack.""Prepare to move.""Ready.""Move."Members of the 375th Aeromedical Staging Flight repeated these commands nearly 20 times during the weekend while moving littered patients off of C-17 Globemaster IIIs and into buses that would take them to the ASF at the Scott

  • 305th airpower gets lift with new Globemasters

    The 305th Air Mobility Wing will increase airpower capabilities with the addition of new jets to the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst flightline, the first of which were scheduled to arrive yesterday.Three new C-17 Globemaster III aircraft were assigned to the wing as part of a