01/28/2014: U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft maintenance unit performed an engine removal on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 22, 2014. Before the engine, that had a bad hydraulic line, could be removed Airmen had to remove the missiles from the aircraft. The F-16…
01/26/2014: The crew of the Permission Impossible, a 22-foot sailboat, contacted Coast Guard Sector North Carolina Command Center watchstanders via VHF-FM channel 16 at approximately 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, reporting their sailboat was aground and were in need of assistance. A Jayhawk crew from Coast Guard Air Station…
01/25/2014: A C-17 Globemaster III out of McChord Air Force Base, Wash., prepares to take off from Entebbe Airport, Uganda, Jan. 23, 2014. U.S. forces will transport a total number of 850 Rwandan soldiers and more than 1,000 tons of equipment into the Central African Republic to aid French and…
01/25/2014: U.S. forces will transport a total number of 850 Rwandan soldiers and more than 1000 tons of equipment into the Central African Republic to aid French and African Union operations against militants during this three week-long operation. Credit:Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa:1/23/14 According to…
01/24/2014: Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's East Africa Response Force or the EARF has been positioned at the U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan, since Dec. 18, 2013 when the initial evacuation of U.S. citizens took place. The EARF is part of a Defense Department initiative of regionally aligned…
01/24/2014: An "Elephant Walk," comprising 12 KC-10 Extenders and six C-17 Globemaster IIIs from the 305th Air Mobility Wing, was held Nov. 21, 2013, as part of a training exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The exercise enabled aircrew, maintenance, command post and operational support personnel to test their ability…
01/20/2014: Working on Helos at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan [slidepress gallery='working-on-helos-at-camp-bastion-afghanistan'] Credit: Regional Command Southwest:11/28/13 In the first two photos, pilots return to Camp Bastion in their AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopter following a routine mission in Helmand, Afghanistan Nov. 28. In the third photo, a Marine with Marine Light Attack Helicopter…
01/17/2014: Speaking to troops in Wyoming, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stressed the need to maintain and modernize the nation's nuclear arsenal. Credit: Pentagon Channel:1/9/14 The following story was published by Wyoming News: By James Chilton
[email protected] CHEYENNE -- Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel paid a visit to F.E. Warren Air Force…
