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  • Air mobility key to outpost sustainability in Afghanistan

    To small military outposts strategically placed throughout Afghanistan's most rugged landscape, air mobility is the key to mission success."We have outposts all over the place here," said Army Lt. Col. David Preston, Support Battalion for Task Force Currahee. "Our guys are bedded down in some of the

  • C-17s deliver largest OEF fuel resupply in Afghanistan

    Three C-17 Globemaster IIIs carrying 120 bundles dropped the largest resupply of fuel ever to a remote military outpost in Afghanistan.Throughout the span of two days, Jan. 29 through 30, Soldiers hustled to collect the pallets, store them and then prepare for the next C-17 pass."When these drops

  • Scott AFB Honor Guard renders final honors at funerals

    While the notes of "Taps" are heard at many bases daily signifying the end of the day, it is also played during military funerals. The concept of military funerals began during the Napoleonic Wars when the dead were carried from the battlefield covered by a flag. Military funeral honors are now

  • Afghanistan airdrop levels reach new frontier in 2010

    Mobility Airmen supporting deployed airdrop operations in Afghanistan reached an unprecedented level in 2010 with a record 60.4 million pounds of cargo airdropped throughout austere locations in the country.To put it another way, imagine watching 8,162 Chevy Suburbans with parachutes floating down

  • JETs help move Afghanistan mission

    Most Airmen know that Air Force jets move cargo, personnel and equipment in and out of theater. But for some Airmen, this type of jet doesn't exactly rack up flight time. This JET is really a Joint Expeditionary Tasking in which several Transit Center at Manas Airmen are assigned to the Army to

  • Joint Base MDL senior NCO supports EOD training event in Kyrgystan

    For the fifth time since July 2009, explosive ordnance disposal Airmen with the 376th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, held an information exchange with their EOD counterparts in the Kyrgz military Dec. 16.Among those Airmen supporting the

  • Scott AFB organizations turn ASF into 'home-like atmosphere'

    Your plane lands after multiple flights and long hours. The door of the C-17 Globemaster opens and the cold air hits your face. It's the middle of winter in Southern Illinois and several men and women in uniforms escort you to a bus that will take you to your room. When the bus comes to a stop you

  • Athlete from Scott join other servicemembers to win in Europe

    Many people have heard the term "military brat" to describe someone whose parent or parents served in the military. By that definition, a 375th Contracting Squadron officer could be considered a basketball brat because both of his parents play basketball. Second Lt. Andrew Henke, 375th CONS

  • Joint Base Charleston: Iron sharpens iron

    Five Army cadets wait in a stuffy briefing room, outnumbered by Air Force pilots three-to-one. It's Charleston, S.C., but no one's on vacation.Converged in the ill-ventilated hotbox an information download, the Air Force pilots listen as a squawking speaker relays cryptic messages from briefing

  • Airmen graduate from first Guard, Reserve SERE course at Fairchild

    Two Reserve component Airmen were the first to graduate from a new course specifically developed for Air National Guardsmen and Reservists Dec. 2, at Fairchild.Staff Sgt. Andrew Dunn, 514th Air Mobility Wing, and Airman 1st Class Brian Alfano, 106th Rescue Squadron, completed the course, dubbed