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  • Pope technical sergeant leads aerial port operations support in Kandahar

    In September, his unit of aerial porters processed more than 16,000 passengers and handled more than 26 million pounds of cargo for Operation Enduring Freedom at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.As a member of the 451st Aerial Port Flight, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, at Kandahar, Tech. Sgt. Edward

  • Joint Base MDL Airman supports visit to Kyrgyzstan NCO academy

    A senior airman deployed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., recently supported a "relationship-building" visit to a Kyrgyz noncommissioned officer academy Oct. 20 in Koi Tash, Kyrgyzstan.Senior Airman Ilya Volovik, deployed with the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing at the Transit Center at

  • Joint Base Andrews NCO supports medical ops at Southwest Asia location

    Staff Sgt. Benjamin Bates is an independent duty medical technician, or IDMT, deployed with the 380th Expeditionary Medical Group, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia.Sergeant Bates is deployed from the 779th Medical Operations Squadron, 79th Medical Wing, at

  • Joint Base MDL Airman supports material management operations at Balad

    Thousands of miles from California's second largest city and his hometown of San Diego where one of the biggest shipping ports exist in the United States, Senior Airman Noah Clifton is doing work similar to what happens in his hometown -- getting supplies to those people who need them.Airman Clifton

  • Red Ribbon Week commemorates fallen hero

    Red Ribbon Week is October 24-30. The week is not only used as a tool for drug awareness, but it also commemorates the death of Enrique Camarena Salazar. Mr. Salazar was a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was abducted and murdered in 1985 while working to uncover identities of key members

  • Pope NCO supports air transportation ops at Afghanistan base

    Staff Sgt. Octavia Swinson is an air transportation craftsman assigned to the 451st Aerial Port Flight, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.Sergeant Swinson is deployed from the 3rd Aerial Port Squadron, 43rd Airlift Wing, at Pope Air Force Base, N.C. The 43rd Airlift