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  • 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year recognized at AFA

    The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen for 2024, including Air Combat Command's Tech Sgt. Joseph. M. Mazure, 9th Air Force (AFCENT) 609th Air Operations Center, were recognized and honored during the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference.

  • 332d Air Expeditionary Wing participates in mass casualty training exercise

    The 332d Expeditionary Medical Squadron recently planned and executed a base-wide mass casualty training scenario, which included integration with a host nation medical evacuation air ambulance center, a host nation medical center, the 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group, and additional squadrons from

  • Defender, Right Out the Gate

    The teams who man the BADC work around the clock to support a mission that requires quick responses and constant vigilance. The level of responsibility for such a position is primarily reserved for more seasoned security forces Airmen, but within the BADC team at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi

  • AFCENT celebrates key partner FMS success

    The Royal Bahraini Air Force, the United States Air Force and Lockheed Martin celebrated the first F-16 Block 70 delivery to Bahrain during a ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville, South Carolina.

  • CSAF, CMSAF visit CENTCOM

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass visited the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Jan. 6-9. There, they visited Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar conducting key leader engagements and visiting Expeditionary Air Wings.

  • AFCENT's 609th AOC shifts to user-focused software suite

    On Nov. 20, 2022, Airmen from Kessel Run, the Air Force’s system program office for the Air Operations Center Enterprise, replaced the 609th Air Operations Center’s legacy Theater Battle Management Core System with its own suite of applications.

  • 386 AEW hosts media day to showcase mission

    The 386 Air Expeditionary Wing hosted its first known Media Day Nov. 14, 2022 at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, showcasing the many ways the wing advances peace and stability in the region, while furthering relationships with Kuwait.

  • 386 AEW and coalition partners reopen runway, enhance mission capabilities

    Military personnel from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kuwait Air Force and coalition partners gathered on the newly renovated South runway for a ribbon cutting ceremony at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, October 13, 2022. This event was the culmination of countless

  • RADR Exercise ensures fastest route to aircraft in sky

    When an airfield comes under attack, priority number one is getting any damage repaired so that we can get aircraft back in the sky and deliver air power upon the enemy. This responsibility is what Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron were executing during a rapid airfield

  • New joint BADC team ensures PSAB security from UAS threats

    As unmanned aerial systems become a more ubiquitous feature of the battlefield across the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, so does the need for innovative thinking and advanced technology to protect U.S. military and Royal Saudi Air Force personnel and critical resources. To help secure

  • The courage to change

    In the span of your life, there are moments which define you and moments which become redefined by you, says U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Monique Hunter, a master resiliency trainer here at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Hunter has lived enough to see how the skills taught in her courses, which are created

  • 380th AEW supports ACE exercise “Agile Tuskegee”

    The 380th Air Expeditionary Wing supported and participated in exercise “Agile Tuskegee” July 12-13, Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. The exercise, led by Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central), demonstrates the flexibility of U.S. airpower assets and its interoperability with partner nations

  • UAE and U.S. Force’s join in semi-annual HAWKEX

    The United Arab Emirates Air Warfare Center and the U.S. Air Forces Central Air Warfare Center partnered together to conduct the Hawk Exercise or HAWKEX, May 16 – 20 at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. HAWKEX is a semi-annual combined-joint simulation exercise conducted to increase

  • 378th medical partnerships sustain life and mission

    The biggest player in this specific exercise was the 378th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, who responded to a simulated mass casualty incident. As one of the first groups out of the bunkers, their job is to find those who were injured before finding cover.

  • Shooters roll’em home

    Airmen from the 55th Fighter Squadron and Fighter Generation Squadron returned home after a six-month long deployment to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia in late April 2022.