St. Louis to host inaugural Air Force Week

Air Force officials have announced the first-ever Air Force Week. It will begin Aug. 6 in St. Louis, culminating in an open house and air show at nearby Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Aug. 12 to 13, featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. The St. Louis metro region was selected by Air Force

C-130s assist humanitarian relief efforts in Cyprus

Two C-130 Hercules crews assigned to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing delivered more than 10 tons of food and other relief supplies during two missions this past week to support American citizens leaving Lebanon. Both missions were no-notice taskings delivered by U.S. Central Command Air Forces'

Manas C-17 crews help Americans depart Lebanon

The C-17 Globemaster III detachment here recently had a name change and change of scenery. The 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron's detachment used to be Detachment 4, but due to a reorganization of the theater's airlift placement, is now Detachment 1. Det.1's primary mission is flying passengers

Ambassador, COMUSAFE welcome displaced citizens, thank Airmen

As approximately 1,800 U.S. citizens passed through here via Air Force aircraft, the U.S. ambassador to Germany paid a visit to meet the transient Americans and to give thanks to the Airmen providing support. “My hats off first of all to General Hobbins and all the people that work with him, but

Ramstein Passenger Services aids U.S. citizens displaced from Lebanon

Shortly after 2 a.m. July 23, the senior 435th Air Base Wing representative at the base passenger terminal surveyed the scene before him as more than 200 Americans displaced from Lebanon were stretched across seats, the floor and cots as they awaited transportation back to the United States. Then he

McGuire AFB provides humanitarian assistance

'Dollar Ride' racking up for aircrew member helping Americans out of Lebanon

Student pilots have a tradition called the ‘dollar ride.' After a student's first flight he or she gives the pilot a dollar. The name harkens back to the county fairs of the early 1900s when barnstormer pilots charged ‘a buck a ride' to customers who sat up in the front of the airplane and acted

Air Force crew diverted to help Americans departing from Lebanon

After being in the desert for two months, C-17 loadmaster Senior Airman Kyle Williams expected the day to be just like every other. It was his 21st birthday and he and his fellow aircrew members from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron already knew they'd be making five stops along a classified

Airmen work round the clock in humanitarian crisis

Four Airmen from the 352nd Special Operations Group are deployed here to help with the assisted departure of American citizens, which through July 23 totaled more than 7,000, from Beirut, Lebanon, to ports and airports in Cyprus. Having arrived in Cyprus early on July 18 from Royal Air Force

Heading to America