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  • Mobility Airmen support airborne exercise at Fort Bragg

    POPE ARMY AIRFIELD, N.C. -- Team McChord Airmen along with Airmen throughout Air Mobility Command units recently participated in the Battalion Mass Tactical Week exercise here Feb. 27 through March 2.   More than 100 Airmen from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Dyess Air Force Base, Texas;

  • USAF KC-135 completes first refueling mission with Romanian F-16

    The U.S. Air Force and Romanian air force made their first air refueling contact Feb. 28, 2017, over Romania. With the help of the U.S. Air Force 100th Air Refueling Wing and one of their KC-135 Stratotankers, the RoAF became certified to refuel from all U.S. KC-135s, strengthening their

  • Yokota welcomes PACAF’s first C-130J Super Hercules

    Yokota Air Base, Japan -- Team Yokota welcomed the first of 14 C-130J Super Hercules being assigned to the 374th Airlift Wing and Pacific Air Forces during an arrival ceremony here March 6, 2017. The new aircraft will eventually replace the unit’s existing C-130H fleet, which has been in service for

  • Supporting the fight and breaking records

    SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Air National Guardsmen from the 120th and 182nd Airlift Wings departed for home this week following a four-month deployment at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.During their deployment, the Airmen were assigned to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen where they

  • Exercise Bonny Jack tests cargo deployment capabilities

    JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The 628th Logistics Readiness Squadron hosted Exercise Bonny Jack, a two-day mobility exercise testing the cargo deployment capabilities of the 437th Airlift Wing here, March 1 and 2, 2017.The exercise started at 9 a.m., March 1 when the 437th Aerial Port Squadron

  • Expeditionary aeromedical squadron creates mobile ICU

    BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The intensive care unit that the 455th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron operates out of the back of a C-130J Hercules is a different scene entirely. An intensive care unit is usually a sterile environment, white hospital walls, pristine floors, bright fluorescent

  • Fairchild kicks off 75th anniversary

    Fairchild Air Force Base kicked off its 75th Anniversary with a celebration event here with Spokane area elected officials, civic leaders, honorary commanders and others March 1, 2017. Col. Ryan Samuelson, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander and Spokane Mayor, David Condon, both gave remarks about the