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  • DOD: Leaders describe path to peace in Libya

    NATO nations will continue operations against the regime in Libya until Moammar Gadhafi leaves power, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and France wrote in an article published in their countries April 15.President Barack Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron and President Nicolas

  • Law and order Airmen see justice served in Iraq

    verse in the Quran goes "call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And, if two men be not found, then a man and two women." Airmen assigned to the U.S. Forces-Iraq Law and Order Task Force support a justice system operating differently from U.S. courts.For paralegal Airmen who learned the

  • Teen discusses representing Fairchild, AMC, more on Air Force Teen Council

    "To me, being able to represent what we as teens believe in is a privilege," said the Fairchild AFB high school freshman who was named a member of Air Mobility Command's Teen Council in December. Marina Hill, a student at Cheney High School, said it's a huge honor to know that out of all the

  • Air Force Global Logistics Support Center hosts local mayors

    The Air Force Global Logistics Support Center, or AFGLSC, has almost 500 members assigned to Scott Air Force Base, with almost 4,500 additional personnel at five other bases. Their jobs, like most jobs in the Air Force, require them to either deploy or go TDY frequently. The departure from home is

  • USTRANSCOM moves DOD personnel from Japan

    More than 7,500 Department of Defense personnel and family members, and 400 of their pets, were evacuated from disaster ravaged Japan in March. The evacuation was made possible through the combined efforts of the U.S. Transportation Command and its components, Air Mobility Command, Military Surface

  • Citizen Airmen support Operation Unified Protector

    Like any typical Saturday, Master Sgt. Jocelyn Fredrick planned to spend the weekend with her two young children. But a phone call early in the morning changed all that. Sergeant Fredrick, an intelligence specialist with the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Pittsburgh, was called to serve in Operation

  • Airmen begin participation in FA HUM 2011 in Trinidad and Tobago

    More than 150 U.S. military personnel and military and civilian officials from Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Canada, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and the Republic of Suriname gathered here April 8 to participate in the annual Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias, or FA HUM 2011. It is also

  • Tuskegee Airman visits Little Rock AFB

    The term 'Tuskegee Airmen' holds a revered place in Air Force history that continues today at the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. On April 8, one of those legendary Airmen visited Little Rock Air Force Base to share his story. Retired Col. George Boyd, a 28-year combat

  • Photo essay: Joint Base MDL KC-10 refuels fighter for Odyssey Dawn

    A U.S. Air Force KC-10A Extender aircraft assigned to the 2nd Air Refueling Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., refuels an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet March 29, 2011, during Operation Odyssey Dawn operations in an undisclosed location.  Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn was a U.S.