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  • U.S. Air Force supports defense of Turkey

    Mobility Airmen are enabling their Army counterparts to meet the Secretary of Defense's order to move two Patriot anti-missile batteries and hundreds of soldiers in support of a key U.S. ally.Working 24 hours a day, Airmen are meeting NATO's request to deploy the Patriots to Turkey as a defensive

  • SPAWAR commemorates MRAP integration program

    A ceremony was held to commemorate the rapid acquisition, integration of electronics and delivery of more than 27,000 MRAP vehicles sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, Dec. 10, 2012, at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic integration facility on JB Charleston - Weapons Station,

  • New day, new job for expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Kandahar Airflield

    On one sortie they may be airdropping food, ammo and fuel to Special Operations troops at a remote forward operating base. On the next, they might transport troops to or from an austere location, move prisoners to a secure facility, provide airlift to Afghan National Army allies, perform aeromedical

  • Electronic beacons track pallets

    They can be seen everywhere a service member travels. They can have a month's worth of water stored on them in Afghanistan or form the walls of a shack in Haiti. They have been used to transport thousands of vehicles in the Department of Defense or just reutilized as makeshift flooring for a tent on

  • General Paul Selva takes command of Air Mobility Command

    Gen. Paul J. Selva became commander of Air Mobility Command in a change-of-command ceremony here today, as the legacy of leading global mobility operations was passed to him from Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr.Selva comes to AMC from Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii,

  • 317th Airlift Group awarded Meritorious Unit Award

    The 317th Airlift Group received the Meritorious Unit Award in recognition of their superior accomplishments from July 2011 to June 2012.This award is given to units that show exceptional meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding achievement or service in direct support of combat

  • JB Charleston's Honor Guard presents the Colors at Panthers game

    The Joint Base Charleston Honor Guards teamed up to form a Joint Service Color Guard and presented the Colors for a crowd of nearly 74,000 during the Carolina Panthers - Denver Broncos football game Nov. 11, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C.The Joint Service Color Guard participated in the event as a

  • Flying Operation Restore Power at 35,000 feet

    On Nov. 1, more than 30 aircraft and hundreds of Air Force and civilian personnel converged on March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to help win a race against time and Mother Nature. In the aftermath of a storm that had been labeled as the big one - "Frankenstorm" - some 1.7 million people were left

  • Hungary-based Airmen write new chapter in mulitinational operations

    At this small, bare-bones, communist-era airfield located in the Hungarian countryside, midpoint between Vienna and Budapest, American Airmen are writing a dynamic new chapter in multinational cooperation and flight operations. Airmen assigned to the Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa Air Base work side by