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  • Air refuelers having busy year supporting deployed operations

    Through the end of September, Airmen flying tanker aircraft in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility off-loaded more than 784 million pounds of fuel to more than 61,600 U.S. and coalition aircraft supporting deployed operations in 2010.Those numbers, compiled by air mobility planners at

  • McChord Airman's tearful homecoming surprise

    October 5 was a normal school day for 12-year-old Paxton Baker, until she got called into the principal's office.With her head down, Paxton slowly walked down the hall to the principal's office. She opened the door to find her father, Tech. Sgt. Raymond Ibay, 627th Air Base Group vehicle maintenance

  • CRE Airmen in Pakistan relate 2005 earthquake to 2010 flood operations

    Approximately five years ago, more than 60 Airmen from the 818th Contingency Response Group, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., were notified to pack their bags and deploy to Pakistan to support relief efforts after a tremendous 7.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 80,000 people dead and

  • Expeditionary Center launches 'Ground Up Challenge'

    Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center can expect to become more intimately familiar with "the ground" than they were expecting if they happen to be on the campus at 8 a.m., 11 a.m. or 4 p.m. respectively.At those designated times, all military members within the Center, student or

  • 19th Medical Group clears dual inspections

    The 19th Medical Group staff successfully passed its Health Services Inspection, which was conducted from Sept. 20 to 24 and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inspection from Sept. 22 to 24.Passing two inspections at the same time proved to inspectors the high level of

  • OEF anniversary: Deployed tanker pilots discuss supporting Afghanistan ops

    In the past nine years, Air Mobility Command statistics show AMC tankers have off-loaded more than 12.2 billion pounds of fuel to aircraft for worldwide military operations, including Operation Enduring Freedom. Since OEF began on Oct. 7, 2001, AMC Airmen from the active duty, Air National Guard and

  • OEF anniversary: History shows AMC's critical support as operation grew

    It was less than 30 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when Operation Enduring Freedom began. Air Force history shows OEF officially started on Oct. 7, 2001. According to Air Mobility Command's 2001 history, in many ways the operation constituted a continuation of the command's

  • Air Force, Navy officials celebrate JB CHS inauguration

    Two historic Lowcountry military installations merged and were officially inaugurated as the Department of Defense military installation Joint Base Charleston, Oct. 1.The inauguration of the joint base marks its full operational capability and is the final step in the stand-up of JB CHS. The two