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  • US, Hellenic air forces practice in-flight refueling

    A KC-135 Stratotanker, from the Arizona Air National Guard’s 161st Air Refueling Wing, joined F-16 Fighting Falcons from Aviano Air Base, Italy, and the Hellenic air force to perform in-flight refueling operations during a flying training deployment, Jan. 20 to Feb. 3, 2017, at Souda Bay, Greece.

  • Airmen exercise ability to provide humanitarian aid

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing exercised their ability to execute and sustain rapid global mobility to deliver humanitarian aid due to a simulated natural disaster throughout the state of Washington during Exercise Dragons Breath Jan. 22 to 27.The 821st Contingency Response

  • AMC, industry collaborate to build aircraft decontamination system

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The system is known as the Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System and AMC expects the system to be available in 2019.“More than ten years ago, an Air Force general asked if there was a method that could decontaminate both the interior and exterior of an aircraft

  • Mobility Airmen maintain two airframes at Ramstein

    A bitter wind chases flurries of frost across the flightline, weaving around aircraft and stinging the faces of those who stand in its way. While many Airmen are still asleep in their beds, the Airmen of the 721st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron are already awake and reporting for duty.The first stop

  • AMC commander visits Travis, gets ‘pulse’ of base

    TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II, Air Mobility Command commander, visited Travis Air Force Base, California, Jan. 17 to 20, to see firsthand how its three wings enable the mobility mission.During his four-day visit, Everhart witnessed a Humvee combat-on-load during night

  • Pioneer of tactical airlift visits MacDill AFB

    He began his visit with a speech at U.S. Special Operations Command.“I was a part of the 492nd Bombardment Group, also known as the ‘Carpetbaggers,’ during World War II,” Cole said. “We started as an anti-submarine squadron, but instead began working with the Office of Special Services to drop

  • Aerial porters serve as strong supply link in Iraq

    AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq – Aerial porters from the 870th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron work steadily alongside loadmasters to load and offload aircraft around the flightline of Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on a busy January afternoon. Some aerial porters drove K-loaders and forklifts while others hop

  • Scott Airmen inspire youth at Community Science Showcase

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Scott Air Force Base, an installation with a wide range of cyber capabilities and active duty computer and software programmers, recently collaborated with the St. Louis Science Center to help expose youth to the STEM-related career fields in the Air Force at the