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  • Texas Air Force Reserve Wing help soldiers complete multi-modal move

    Airmen here recently finished conducting the air leg of a multi-modal move for an equipment swap out between the 1st and 3rd Combat Aviation Brigades.Nearly four months of planning paid off as C-5A Galaxys and C-5M Super Galaxys transported more than 120 helicopters between Kandahar and western

  • Acting SecAF visits Team Dover

    Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric K. Fanning visited here Sept. 5, to get a tour of Team Dover's capabilities and to speak to base personnel at an all-call.Fanning said Dover was one of the first bases he visited in April after switching from the Department of the Navy to his current position.

  • Wounded warrior adopts four-legged partner, friend

    From the moment Staff Sgt. Brian Williams arrived at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to begin his recovery, he had only one request. Carly. Williams was deployed from the 87th Security Forces Squadron when he suffered serious injuries after an improvised explosive device detonated while

  • Maintainers keep old fleet in air, contributing to life saving mission

    Every day, thousands of service members and coalition partners operating in Afghanistan rely on the C-130 Hercules and to keep this old workhorse in the air, it requires a team of maintainers.Maintainers with the C-130 Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Bagram Air Field are charged with

  • Acting SecAF Fanning meets Team MacDill

    Continuing his tour campaign to speak with Airmen, advocate their concerns and explain future force objectives, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning made a stop to engage Team MacDill, Aug. 29.Fanning, upon becoming the acting SecAF in June and having served as the Undersecretary of the

  • Acting SecAF visits Scott Airmen

    Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning came here Aug. 22 as part of his recent tour of bases to speak with Airmen about their concerns and to answer questions about the future of the Air Force.Since becoming the acting SecAF in June and having served as the Undersecretary of the Air Force

  • Bagram joint airdrop inspectors ensure ground troops receive supplies

    What do rubber bands, string and parachutes have in common?They are all components of an airdrop bundle inspected by the only two qualified Joint Airdrop Inspectors assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron here.Airdrops provide ground members in isolated locations of

  • Hagel announces reduction in civilian furlough days

    Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees who have had to take a weekly unpaid day off from work since July 8 are getting some relief, as the total number of furlough days has been reduced from 11 to six, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced today.Here is the complete text of

  • Traveling chaplain team raises morale of security forces Airmen

    Comprehensive Airmen Fitness pillars are important to maintain at both home station and abroad, and Chaplain Capt. Myung Cho and his assistant Staff Sgt. Frank Rivas, travel day and night across Bagram Air Field, to ensure the airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group are