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  • Mobility Airmen facilitate Operation Toy Drop

    It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...Chutes instead of snowTake a look at the sky again, they're jumping against the wind...Giving gifts, descending to below!Olive drab colored parachutes tinted the early morning sunrays on Sicily Drop Zone Friday at Fort Bragg, N.C. during the 18th Annual

  • MOT training enables JBLM mission success

    More than 30 Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, and 22 Air Force loadmasters from the 62nd Airlift Wing recently trained loading a 75,000 pounds Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar trailer onto a C-17 Globemaster III on McChord Field, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

  • Airmen enable largest CR exercise in AF history, Cerberus Strike

    Contingency response Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Group recently planned, directed and executed the largest self-contained contingency response exercise in Air Force history from Sept. 8-19.Approximately 150 Airmen from the 821st CRG at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., subordinate unit

  • Airmen share air mobility knowledge with African partner nations

    Approximately 40 African military personnel visited here to participate in the African Partnership Flight hosted by the 621st Contingency Response Wing Aug. 30 through Sept. 4.The APF program, sponsored and developed by U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, is the premier security

  • African Partnership Flight to land at JB MDL

    Approximately 40 African military personnel will visit Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to participate in the African Partnership Flight hosted by the 621st Contingency Response Wing here Aug. 30 through Sept. 4.The African Partnership Flight program, sponsored and developed by U.S. Air Forces in

  • Warrior's particpate in adaptive sports camp

    Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Commander Col. Daniel S. Morgan calls participants of the JBLM Warrior Care Adaptive Sports Camp the "toughest warriors out there.""I can't think of a better reason to come together and overcome adversity," Morgan said. "The people out here today are warriors...we asked

  • Warriors of the North battle to be crowned Summer Bash 2015 Champions

    Airmen here took a break from their daily operations Aug. 20 to compete in a variety of events during Summer Bash 2015.Summer Bash is a day of competition and camaraderie held annually at Grand Forks Air Force Base. Airmen compete as teams or as individuals with the goal of their squadron being

  • 18th AF performs 16-hour, trans-Pacific flight in support of Talisman Sabre

    U.S. and Royal Australian Air Force Airmen flew a combined formation of C-17 aircraft more than 16 hours straight across the Pacific Ocean this past week as part of 18th Air Force's participation in Exercise Talisman Saber 15.Exercise Talisman Sabre is a U.S. Pacific Command - sponsored exercise

  • 43rd AG stands up air base and air mobility squadrons at Pope Field

    Airmen from the 43rd Airlift Group activated and assigned command to two new squadrons, while inactivating three squadrons and redesignating one squadron, during several formal ceremonies held here on July 1.The 43rd Air Mobility Squadron and the 43rd Air Base Squadron unfurled their new unit

  • Pope Airmen run to honor fallen aerial porters

    The 3rd Aerial Port Squadron hosted two memorial 'Port Dawg' 5K runs around the flightline here May 13 to honor fallen air transportation Airmen.More than 100 Airmen and family members participated in the 5K runs to remember and honor Total Force aerial porters who lost their lives Air Force-wide in