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  • Infrastructure upgrades enhance joint base missions

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Air Force and New Jersey leaders officially opened the joint base's newest Command Post and Base Operations joint facility as well as a new dormitory with two ribbon-cutting ceremonies Feb. 24, 2014, here.The JB MDL Command Post and several 305th OSS flights,

  • C-17 crews demonstrate joint, international capabilities

    Five C-17 Globemaster III aircraft departed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and dropped more than 380 U.S. and Royal Thai paratroopers into Lopburi Airfield, Thailand, Feb. 15 in support of multi-national military exercise Exercise Cobra Gold.The airdrop operation flown by aircrews

  • JBLM crews perform HI-RAIN live fire

    Following months of planning, Airmen and Soldiers completed JBLM's first joint live-fire M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems Rapid Infiltration (HI-RAIN) exercise, Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, in Schoonover, Calif. During the weeklong exercise, six McChord C-17 Globemaster III aircraft transported 12

  • 435th AGOW Airmen lead Rwandan port operations

    In an effort to confront destabilizing forces and violence within the Central African Republic, France and the African Union have requested U.S. support to move Rwandan forces into the region.Airmen from the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing's Contingency Response Group responded to the request. A

  • Air Force Transports Rwandan Troops to Central African Republic

    U.S. airlift operations are continuing in the Central African Republic, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said today.Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft initially began operations Dec. 12 in response to a French request for limited support in the region. During those initial operations,

  • 1st CTCS hosts ATSO exercise with AF combat camera squadrons

    The 1st Combat Camera Squadron at Joint Base Charleston - Air Base, S.C., hosted an Ability to Survive and Operate exercise Jan. 6 through 17. This year, the 1st CTCS invited all four Air Force Combat Camera squadrons with the 2nd out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah and 3rd out of Joint Base San

  • Local media members travel to Transit Center at Manas

    From Dec. 10-17, local media near Fairchild Air Force Base were immersed firsthand in a week in the life of a deployed Airman from Fairchild going to the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. The purpose of the media embed was to help the local community see exactly what Fairchild crews do every day

  • 15th AMOS provides typhoon relief

    On Nov. 8, Typhoon Haiyan made land fall in the Tacloban region of the Philippines, bringing with it winds more than 200 mph and tsunami level waves. Eyewitnesses reported the devastation looked as if a F5 tornado tore a path 60 miles wide and left nothing standing. Almost instantaneously U.S.