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  • Air expeditionary wing in Southwest Asia takes full circle journey to war

    The deafening roar of the U.S. Army Patriot missiles leaving their launchers left a ringing in his ears and drove home to the young captain that he was indeed at war.Huddled in a bunker with his fellow KC-135 aircrew, the usual joking and bantering was replaced with silence. The crew was fatigued

  • ASAM graduate research papers make real-world impacts

    The research of three graduates of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Advanced Study of Air Mobility program were recently recognized for their contributions to the mobility mission.Majors Phil Morrison, Brandon Casey and Ian Fairchild, all students graduating from the Mobility Operations

  • AAFES Shoppette gas pumps switching to pre-pay

    To reduce losses regarding fuel dispensing at the AAFES Shoppette all cash and check transactions will go too prepaid prior to pumping fuel. This change will not affect customers that elect to use a major credit card or Military Star Card at the pump to prepay.Military Star Card customers will

  • Air Force EOD defusing the threat of IEDs

    "Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!"That's the rally cry for an elite group of Airmen who are working day in and day out to save the lives of their fellow Airmen and those around them, regardless if they are in the area of responsibility or here at home.Who are these

  • Airmen, Soldiers join on Lakehurst for Eagle Flag exercise

    More than 140 Airmen and Soldiers worked together on a new concept during the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Eagle Flag exercise on Lakehurst April 12. Eagle Flag is the U.S. military's premiere exercise for validating logistics port-opening procedures in an expeditionary environment.The

  • Medical team will work from mobile staging facility in Haiti

    Team Scott is continuing to provide relief in Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the country devastated.A 13-person team from the 375th Medical Group will depart here to support Operation Unified Response by forming a Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility. The team consists of four

  • Air mobility: connecting missions, hearts and lives for Haiti

    At approximately 6 p.m. Jan. 14, a Charleston AFB C-17 and crew departed on the base's first mission to bring the humanitarian relief to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was struck Jan. 12 by a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. According to Pan American Health Organization reports, the death toll is

  • Deployed CE Airmen help Iraqis learn carpentry skills in Kirkuk

    506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Airmen work with local Iraqis daily, teaching them various trade skills as they team together to improve the infrastructure at Kirkuk Regional Air Base. "I was given the opportunity to teach the local nationals what we could with the jobs that we're