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  • Contingency response element providing critical airlift support in Pakistan

    More than 30 members from the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, arrived at Chaklala Air Force Base, Pakistan, to provide additional manpower, equipment and organization to current flood relief operations out of Pakistan Air Force's Central Flood Relief

  • Air expeditionary wing in Southwest Asia takes full circle journey to war

    The deafening roar of the U.S. Army Patriot missiles leaving their launchers left a ringing in his ears and drove home to the young captain that he was indeed at war.Huddled in a bunker with his fellow KC-135 aircrew, the usual joking and bantering was replaced with silence. The crew was fatigued

  • Deployed wing contributes aircraft, Airmen to relief efforts in Pakistan

    Airmen and aircraft from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing are joining the U.S. military's humanitarian relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan, where record-setting monsoons have killed more than 1,600 people and left 2 million homeless.Two C-130 Hercules aircraft and more than 40 aircrew members,

  • Airlift moves mountains for Afghanistan surge

    During a recent commander's call, Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., Air Mobility Command commander, may have best cited the importance of airlift to today's military when he said, "One mission can change the world."As one of AMC's core capabilities, airlift remains a staple in getting the "beans and

  • Material management flight keeps Pope supplied

    Airmen in the 43rd Logistics Readiness Squadron Material Management Flight have a lot of responsibility at Pope; from ordering, stocking and supplying parts and equipment for aircraft to providing deploying Airmen with Airman Battle Uniforms.There is very little that goes on around Pope without

  • Joint Base Lewis-McChord unit deploys for overseas contingency operations

    More than 100 Airmen assigned to the 4th Airlift Squadron departed McChord Field here Aug. 26 for a 120-day deployment in support of the operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. "We will be moving people and cargo, conducting combat airdrop missions and supporting freedom," said Lt. Col.

  • Photo essay: Loadmaster shadow

    Master Sgt. John Gorsuch, C-130 Hercules loadmaster and instructor for Headquarters Air Mobility Command/Air Operations Squadron Detachment 5 at the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center at St. Joseph, Mo., looks over a C-130 aircraft display at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., on Aug. 20,

  • Photo essay: Mobility Airmen team with Marines to move helicopters

    Aircrew assigned to the10th and 6th Airlift Squadrons and U.S. Marines assigned to the 266th Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron, finish unloading a U.S. Marine Corps MH-53E Super Stallion out of a C-17A Globemaster III aircraft from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., on Aug. 26, 2010 at Camp Bastion,