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  • Beale pilot's exploits in Afghanistan earn him Lemay award

    One of the most alarming voices United States Air Force pilot's will ever hear is that of a service member needing help in a troops-in-contact situation. Ground troops rely upon pilots to provide vital information, evacuate wounded, and when the time comes, deliver precision ordnance to eliminate

  • Controllers keep combat sorties cruising

    With the busiest airfield in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility for joint and coalition forces, the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing depends on a team of skilled air traffic controllers to ensure safe, smooth airfield operations. "The main priority of an air traffic controller here is to

  • Combat Air Forces, 552 ACW, to resume flying

    In response to a decision by Congress to return combat flying units to full status after a three-month hiatus, the 552nd Air Control Wing has received additional flying hours from Air Combat Command, their higher headquarters, the wing's Operations Group commander has confirmed."The additional hours

  • All you can do is act

    "When it happened, everyone else was standing around, sort of frozen from shock, but I wasn't."Senior Airman Lance Scarbrough, 7th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants flight, was the first to respond when a civilian employee fueling a Boeing 747, fell from the maintenance

  • Load barn Airmen put the precise in precision

    The B-1 Bomber is known world-wide for its deadly precision, but who are the people behind the Lancer's strike capability?Airmen, who work in the load barn from the 7th Munitions Squadron, spend their days training, being evaluated and sometimes participating in competitions to ensure their weapon

  • IAAFA PME builds partnerships, friendships

    One part of the Inter-American Air Forces Academy's vision statement is "building partnerships for tomorrow."Four recent graduates of the IAAFA International Squadron Officers School Professional Military Education course all agree that they built partnerships, along with friendships, during their

  • MEDEL performs surgeries in local hospital

    A six-person mobile surgical team from Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element performed four surgeries Aug. 7 at a hospital in Comayagua, Honduras.The surgical team assisted the hospital in removing three gallbladders and one bot fly larvae from a child's body. MEDEL provides relevant, responsive

  • Fighting fire with desire

    Running into a civil engineer warehouse with reports of fire and two victims trapped inside and no other information, Airman 1st Class Andre Adams, the man on the hand-line hose, checks the door for heat with the back of his hand, opens it and charges through the smoke. At that moment, he has no

  • Seven deployments, five years: Offutt linguist tells story

    Seven deployments in five years, a feat not many can claim, but Staff Sgt. Chris can. Serving as a career enlisted aviator on the RC-135 Rivet Joint, Chris has spent nearly 735 days deployed flying more than 2,000 hours with more than 400 combat sorties. The Nashville, Tenn., native joined the

  • Holloman Provides World-Class Training for F-22s

    Editor's Note: This article is the second in a series of four articles featuring the F-22 Raptors at Holloman Air Force Base.Holloman is home to 24 sleek, stealth F-22 Raptors, a fifth generation jet that the Pentagon says can outgun and outmaneuver any fighter plane across the globe. The aircraft's