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  • NATO makes smooth transition in Libya operations

    The transition from the U.S.-led Operation Odyssey Dawn to the NATO-led Operation Unified Protector has occurred seamlessly, British Royal Navy Rear Adm. Russell Harding said in Naples, Italy, April 6.The NATO mission has the equipment and capabilities needed to protect the Libyan people, maintain

  • Citizen Airmen support Operation Unified Protector

    Like any typical Saturday, Master Sgt. Jocelyn Fredrick planned to spend the weekend with her two young children. But a phone call early in the morning changed all that. Sergeant Fredrick, an intelligence specialist with the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Pittsburgh, was called to serve in Operation

  • Troops to receive full mid-month pay April 15th

    All service members will receive their full mid-month pay they have earned in their paychecks April 15, Pentagon officials said April 11."Basically, all active duty and Reserve service members will receive full mid-month pay on the 15th of April," Pentagon spokesman Marine Col. Dave Lapan said. "It

  • Mobility Airmen among team to 'shatter' deployed fuels record in Kyrgyzstan

    They are deployed from numerous Air Mobility Command bases from Kansas, New Jersey and Delaware to name a few. Combined, with Airmen deployed from other Air Force commands, they formed a team in the 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels management flight that "shattered" a record

  • Joint Base Charleston Air Expo demo teams visit local community

    Members from two Air Combat Command demonstration teams visited a local school and hospital shortly after arriving at Joint Base Charleston on April 7 for Air Expo 2011. The Air Force's F-15E and A-10 demonstration teams used their free time to visit students and patients in order to talk about

  • Joint Base Charleston's 2011 Air Expo draws nearly 80,000

    Nearly 80,000 people attended the Charleston Air Expo 2011 on April 9 here to see performances by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the GEICO Skytypers and Tora! Tora! Tora! "The 2011 Air Expo was a resounding success," said Maj. Scott Suazo, Charleston Air Expo 2011 director. "It was amazing to see

  • Air Force tests new health response team in Trinidad and Tobago

    More than 40 U.S. Air Force medical personnel from the 60th Medical Group at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., along with four contingency response personnel from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., gathered here to test a new expeditionary medical support health response team in support of Fuerzas

  • Airmen begin participation in FA HUM 2011 in Trinidad and Tobago

    More than 150 U.S. military personnel and military and civilian officials from Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Canada, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and the Republic of Suriname gathered here April 8 to participate in the annual Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias, or FA HUM 2011. It is also