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March 23, 2011
Mobility Airmen among 'joint team' helping returning families with Operation Pacific Passage

Whether it's at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., or Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, these are just some of the areas where mobility Airmen and other people from Air Mobility Command bases are stepping up to help people returning from Japan.Shortly after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent
March 22, 2011
Members voluntarily leave Japan in support of Operation Pacific Passage

More than 500 service members, family members and civil service employees, who voluntarily departed Japan, arrived at Travis Air Force Base March 22 aboard charted military flights in support of Operation Pacific Passage.U.S. Army North officials along with Team Travis members activated the Joint
March 19, 2011
McChord Airmen support first voluntary departure flight from Japan

Members of Team McChord helped welcome 233 Department of Defense personnel and family members who voluntarily departed Japan after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the island March 11."This is a tremendous team effort from the entire Joint Base community aimed at easing a
March 18, 2011
Joint theather hospital's intensive care unit, ward at Afghan base provides critical care for patients

The intensive care unit and intermediate care ward at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here play a significant role in taking care of wounded warriors.The centers also provide care for sick U.S. citizens in non-battle related incidents and the Afghanistan army and police."We have a lot of capability
March 17, 2011
Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility gets wounded warriors home from Afghanistan

The transition from the Craig Joint Theater Hospital to home is made easier for wounded warriors with the help of the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, or CASF, here. Once a patient is in stable condition after receiving care at the joint theater hospital, they are brought to the CASF where
March 14, 2011
Airdrop inspectors work with Army, Air Force in Afghanistan

Almost every pallet that travels on a C-130 through Kandahar Airfield is touched by two Airmen -- Staff Sgt. William McKandless and Little Rock Air Force Base's Staff Sgt. Steven Smith, who are joint airdrop inspectors with the 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. The two inspectors approve bundles
March 9, 2011
Air Mobility Liaison Officers conducting landing zone safety training in Afghanistan

At an austere airstrip here, Air Mobility Liaison Officers are conducting landing zone safety officer certification training to U.S. and coalition forces throughout Afghanistan unsecured dirt landing strip outside the protection of conventional forces. Twenty-six students from the U.S. Air Force and
March 4, 2011
Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airman's EOD role helped to save lives

For most Americans, the Academy Award winning movie "The Hurt Locker" was just that -- a movie. But for Staff Sgt. Mark Walker, it's his life. Sergeant Walker, an explosive ordnance disposal craftsman with the 627th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD Flight, spent part of 2010 diffusing bombs and
March 3, 2011
C-5s providing 'muscle' for multi-modal helo swap-out missions to Afghanistan

Just months after supporting a record airlift effort to get 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, the Air Force's biggest airlifter -- the C-5 Galaxy -- and the mobility Airmen who maintain and fly them are part of another "big" effort. This time it's for a U.S. Transportation Command
March 3, 2011
TACC Airmen plan major helicopter rotation in Afghanistan

Air Mobility Command Airmen and C-5 Galaxies are on the cusp of completing one of the largest rotations of helicopters into and out of Afghanistan in Air Force history, according to AMC officials.The massive effort called for the rotation of more than 170 helicopters -- approximately 100 inbound to