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  • Structures team makes it happen at Balad

    Operating a paint striper on a flightline at night or mixing concrete to hold wind cones in place may not be the most glamorous jobs in the Air Force, but they can be gratifying. Airmen from the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron structures shop enjoy making things happen through innovative

  • Egress maintainers give pilots a sense of security

    When he's thousands of feet above ground and it's a matter of life or death, 1.8 seconds is all the time a pilot needs to safely eject himself out of his seat and survive a potentially fatal crash. Although 1.8 seconds doesn't seem like a lot of time, the members of the 332nd Expeditionary

  • Forecaster shares love of weather with students

    Rain rains.  Wind blows.  But, who knows what the weather holds?  Tech. Sgt. Publio Casillas knows. This rhyme was true to the second graders of Tyndall Elementary School here when they were visited by the 325th Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight mission services element NCO in

  • World War II veteran visits his past in Hawaii

    It has been almost 65 years since Raymond Stehle has been in Hawaii. Standing on the now paved dunes of an old air field, he completed a promise to his granddaughter to return to the peaceful island of Oahu to recount the day it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.At the time, Mr. Stehle was an Army

  • HVAC helps provide combat airpower for America

    Lifting up a panel to troubleshoot and repair a possible electrical problem in an environmental control unit and seeing a maze of white, yellow and red wires is all in a day's work for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning flight Airmen here. The flight, part of the 332nd Expeditionary Civil

  • New weapon makes job of munitions specialists a 'snap'

    The job of loading bombs onto aircraft became a little bit easier Oct. 5 for members of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron. They loaded the first Guided Bomb Unit-39/B Small Diameter Bomb onto an F-15E Strike Eagle headed for a combat mission over Iraq. This munitions load signaled the

  • Keeping Airmen in shape means providing healthy choices

    Pounds of lettuce used every day -- 1,600.Pounds of steak cooked on Wednesdays -- 1,400. Pounds of eggs cracked open every month -- 240,000. Master Sgt. Joe Ennen's role on base -- priceless. Actually using the term priceless to describe Sergeant Ennen might be slightly understating his value here.

  • Medal of Honor recipients visit Hanscom School

    The three men had seen it all. War, death and destruction had accompanied them through some of the darkest hours in U.S. history. Across the room were more than 40 pairs of eyes -- eyes that widened as the students listened to true stories of courage and heroism that sounded as if they were taken

  • Bilingual Airman adds to mission

    Building relationships with Airmen serving and working with military forces in Central America, South America and the Caribbean is a responsibility that falls on the shoulders of members of the 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.One such Airman communicating

  • Balad's mission begins with strategic airlift

    With aircraft valued at $150 milion and up, these assets are too valuable to sit in harm's way in Iraq. To get the large cargo aircraft gased and maintained and on their way, the 721st Air Mobility Operations Group, Detachment 5, Airmen work to move the airlifters in the air quickly and out of the