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F-16 Maintainers Remove Engine

01/28/2014
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…

France and the African Engagement: 2014

01/28/2014
2014-01-28 by Oscar Nkala France says it plans to expand its military presence in Africa with the deployment of at least 3 000 troops to military bases in Niger, Mali and Chad as well as a logistics and supply base in Ivory Coast. France already has troops on stabilization missions…

Alligator River Rescue by USCG

01/26/2014
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…

US Airlift Rwandan Soldiers to CAR

01/25/2014
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…

USAF Support to Central African Mission

01/25/2014
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…

The U.S. Military and Operation Damayan: Shape a Relief Infrastructure and Withdraw

01/25/2014
2014-01-25 By Robbin Laird While many TV commentators seemed to have spent their time covering the Philippine relief situation doing little but to criticize the performance of the Philippine government (Anderson Cooper certainly comes to mind), key contingents of the USMC and USAF were working rapidly to establish the infrastructure for…