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  • Medical Group trains with Nebraska National Guard

    In an effort to enhance expeditionary medical readiness capabilities and improve emergency care in a combat environment, more than 200 McConnell Airmen conducted an exercise with the Nebraska Army National Guard here, April 16.The exercise, which required Airmen from the 22nd MDG to load and unload

  • Joint Base Charleston supports OEF build-up

    Members of the 4th Marine Logistics Group, 4th Atlanta Support Battalion, Charlie Company here are moving shipments of mine-resistant, ambush-protected, all-terrain vehicles overseas to a number of remote locations supporting the build-up for Operation Enduring Freedom.M-ATVs are armored vehicles

  • Pope Airman named AMC First Sergeant of the Year

    Gen. Raymond E. Johns, Jr., Commander of Air Mobility Command, named Master Sgt. Danny Davis, First Sergeant for the 43rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, AMC's First Sergeant of the year at Scott Air Force Base, Ill during AMC's 2009 outstanding Airmen and First Sergeants of the year ceremony April 9.

  • AMC announces 2009 command media contest winners

    The winners of the 2009 Air Mobility Command Media Contest were announced Feb. 26. It's a program that recognizes our command's best journalists, photographers and broadcasters.Following are the winners:Print Journalist of the Year1st Place - Master Sgt. Scott Sturkol, Headquarters Air Mobility

  • Deployed security forces protect Southwest Asia base 24-7

    Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Airmen in the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron are charged with security and force protection of more than 1,900 deployed personnel and billions of dollars worth of deployed assets, equipment and aircraft at a non-disclosed

  • Pope, Bragg team for successful mission

    The joint effort of Pope and Fort Bragg in getting supplies to grief-torn Haiti is proof that military branches can successfully work together to make a difference.When the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, of Fort Bragg was tagged as a supplemental element in the U.S.'s humanitarian

  • C-17 Stage office keeps fleet moving

    When Charleston Air Force Base became the air hub for C-17 Globemaster III's providing relief supplies of water, food and medical needs, the 437th Airlift Wing established a C-17 stage to manage the vast number of aircrews supporting Operation Unified Response."As support for Operation Unified

  • Dover C-17 Globemaster III crew delivers cargo to Haiti

    Airmen from the 3rd Airlift Squadron flying a C-17 Globemaster III  transported disaster relief supplies and military personnel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 19.The C-17 arrived in Haiti in the late evening of Jan. 19 with nearly 90,000 pounds of cargo to be dropped off in support of Operation

  • Everybody knows that Santa is a Paratrooper

    You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. But on Dec. 6 at Pope, it was not a team of reindeer, but Maj. Jeff Dasher, a navigator in the 95th Airlift Squadron, who guided the mission for the 440th Airlift Wing's C-130 that flew a group of Soldier Santas across the morning sky. One might say

  • Troops to focus on reversing Taliban's momentum

    The 30,000 additional troops President Barack Obama is sending to Afghanistan will focus on reversing the Taliban's momentum, a senior Defense Department official said Dec. 1 during a "DoDLive" bloggers roundtable following the president's announcement of his new strategy. "What we are sending into