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  • Air Force engineers repair runway in Iraq

    The 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Group arrived in northern Iraq to conduct a reconnaissance mission for what would become a historic undertaking. Their mission: mitigate runway damage caused by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

  • Bataan Death March survivor visits McConnell

    A 99 year old, World War II veteran who survived the Bataan Death March visited McConnell Oct. 20.Retired Army Sgt. Eddie Graham, shared his experiences with an audience of McConnell Airmen and after meet with maintenance and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen.“It was a great experience, hearing his

  • Exercise Red Flag-Alaska 17-1 lifts off

    RED FLAG-Alaska 17-1 lifted off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Oct. 6. RF-A is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. and international forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. It is conducted on the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex with air operations flown

  • Ramstein Airman douses flames, saves lives

    There are probably few people who aren’t first responders who would run into a burning building for a stranger, but that’s exactly what one Airman assigned to the 721st Aerial Port Squadron did.

  • Military Health System officials visit Fairchild

    Department of Defense healthcare officials met with 92nd Medical Group leadership to discuss progress of the Military Health System Genesis program Sept. 7, 2016.MHS Genesis is a Department of Defense electronic healthcare record system designed to give military medical professionals improved access

  • Air Force, Army planners find ways to see greater jump in airdrops

    An arriving C-130 Hercules taxies to a large hangar where about 60 Army paratroopers wait to board. Lugging about 100 pounds of gear, the Soldiers quickly line up and load into the aircraft as its four idling engines blow hot gusts over the tarmac. Minutes later, the plane is flying at 150 mph and

  • Newly activated unit guides transient aircraft on joint missions

    Any aircraft that flies into Pope Army Airfield, Col. Kelly Holbert will know about it. But Holbert’s unit, the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, has no aircraft of its own. As the only en route operations group in the continental U.S., the unit manages transient aircraft and the joint missions

  • McConnell EOD team assists local sheriff’s department

    When a backpack containing a potentially dangerous explosive device was handed over to authorities, the Marion County Sherriff’s Department, in Kansas, knew exactly who to call.The 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal team received the call requesting assistance the afternoon of

  • Travis C-5M delivers SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite

    A C-5M Super Galaxy assisted in the completion of a major milestone for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared Systems program, successfully delivering a Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite Flight 3 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Aug. 2.