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Afghan Air Force conducts bilateral missions with coalition forces Jul 10, 2017 - Personnel from the Train, Advise, Assist, Command – Air (TAAC-Air) and the Afghan Air Force conducted a bilateral casualty evacuation mission and an aerial re-supply training exercise July 9-10. [Read more...]	Rescue airmen save two German citizens stranded at sea Jul 10, 2017 - In a concerted effort from July 7, and into the early hours of July 8, 2017, approximately 80 Airmen and four aircraft assigned to the 920th Rescue Wing successfully rescued two German citizens whose vessel caught fire approximately 500 nautical miles off the east coast of southern Florida. [Read more...]

317th Airlift Wing activation: Another historic milestone Jul 07, 2017 - Dyess witnessed a historic moment Thursday when the 317th Airlift Group was deactivated and then reactivated as the 317th Airlift Wing under a new wing commander, Col. David Owens. [Read more...]	Yokota's C-130J completes first operational mission Jul 06, 2017 - The C-130H Hercules has ensured the 374th Airlift Wing remains the primary Western Pacific airlift hub for peacetime and contingency operations. Continuing this legacy is its newer model the C-130J Super Hercules, which has completed its first operational mission by transporting personnel and cargo for their sister service, July 1, 2017. [Read more...]
386th EMXS Combat Metals team innovates repair, saves Air Force thousands Jun 30, 2017 - You don’t always have everything you want on a deployment. No sixty inch plasma with video game console in your room, so you bring a laptop to play your games. Your cell phone doesn’t have coverage unless you pay exorbitant roaming fees, so you video chat with your family over Wi-Fi when you can instead. You make it work, however you can. [Read more...]	Pacific Air Commandos launch on 'Day of Jakal' Jun 30, 2017 - The 17th Special Operations Squadron observed its annual ‘Day of the Jakal’ with a mass launch of five U.S. Air Force Special Operations MC-130J Commando IIs, June 22, 2017, at Kadena Air Base and Ie Shima Range, Okinawa, Japan. [Read more...]
913th AG completes all Reserve 3-ship flight Jun 30, 2017 - Airmen from the 913th Airlift Group reached another milestone, when on June 15, 2017, elements of the Group completed their first all Reserve 3-ship flight. [Read more...]	Ohio National Guard Strengthens Partnership with Allied Nations Jun 27, 2017 - As part of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program, the Ohio National Guard deployed to Kecskemet Air Base in Hungary to participate in a Hungarian-led, multinational, air-to-air and air-to-ground exercise, Load Diffuser 17, May 24 through June 9, 2017. [Read more...]
353rd SOG & JASDF complete Exercise Teak Jet Jun 26, 2017 - Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group, from Kadena Air Base, Japan built on relationships with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Hamamatsu Air Rescue Squadron, based at Komaki Air Base and Komatsu Air Rescue Squadron, during Exercise Teak Jet, which took place June 9-21, 2017 at Yokota Air Base, Japan. [Read more...]	Thai Air Force joins JBER for Red Flag-Alaska Jun 22, 2017 - The Royal Thai Air Force from Task Force 601 flew 6,200 nautical miles and spent 21 intermittent hours traveling to the Last Frontier to be part of Red Flag 17-2. [Read more...]

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