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  • Air Terminal Operations Center gets troops to, from fight

    Transit Center at Manas has been an international strategic point for years. That importance is due to the mission of the Air Terminal Operations Center.ATOC falls under the 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron aerial port. ATOC is responsible for constantly monitoring airlift missions

  • Flying medics provide humanitarian relief

    It had all the appearances of being a routine 'bandage' mission for the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron as it landed at Camp Bastion May 27.A regular part of the missions flown by the 455th EAES, 'bandage' missions transport servicemembers to facilities that can provide treatment

  • Airmen, Sailors maneuver Humvees around curves

    It's not every day an Airman or Sailor is asked to drive the 7,500 pound Humvee at speeds in excess of 30 mph around 45-degree curves. Service members from the five branches are working together more frequently, on the ground and on the roads with today's contingency operations in Afghanistan.

  • President lands at JB MDL

    President Barack Obama flew into Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst May 28, 2013, and visited with joint base community members and leaders while en route to see the post-Hurricane Sandy recovery effort on the New Jersey shore with Gov. Chris Christie. Service members, families and local media

  • Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention; Airman seeks change ASAP

    People of all ages, races, economic backgrounds, sexualities, and lifestyles have been victims. Males as well as females can be victims.After being given an opportunity to train as a volunteer victim advocate when first arriving to MacDill Air Force Base last year, Airman 1st Class Travis Lockwood,

  • CAF Social Pillar: TLR Rocks Special Olympics

    "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." The Harding University football stadium echoed with the above words as thousands of athletes and their supporters flocked to Searcy, Ark., to compete in the Arkansas Summer Special Olympics May 23 - 25. Among the competitors was a

  • McConnell honors fallen Shell 77 aircrew

    More than 100 Airmen and community members from McConnell Air Force Base rallied around a KC-135 Stratotanker static display, May 28, 2013, during a memorial service honoring three fallen aircrew members of Shell 77, who perished May 3, near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan.Those who knew Tech. Sgt. Herman