1 Dec 2020

Back in the game: An Airman’s tenacity to finish what she started

A social media notification lit up her phone with a four-year-old memory from when she was in the middle of her first deployment. These are the memories she typically pushes to the back of her mind, but this blatant reminder of the diagnosis that cut her deployment short and got her medically evacuated home, confronted her head-on.

9 Apr 2020

ASAB Airmen execute the mission; Adhere to DoD guidelines

386th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen continue to execute their day to day mission while adhering to the latest DoD health protection guidelines.

29 Oct 2018

JCAT Airman uses combat forensics to evolve the AFCENT mission

The ideal outcome of any conflict is to achieve victory and come out the other side unscathed. However, an undesired outcome does not mean lessons cannot be learned and applied for future conflicts. The United States military has used this mentality since its inception and applies it today in the form of the Joint Combat Assessment Team.According

11 Jun 2018

A ‘simple fix’ will save the Air Force a lot of money

In early May, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Tech. Sgt. Chance Cole, 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flight line expediter, came up with an idea – and it’s going to save the Air Force a lot of money. Each time maintenance personnel were unable to replace a spline insert, they actually had to remove and replace a much larger and more complex assembly, the Permanent Magnetic Alternator (PMA). This process had been accomplished multiple times in the past due to an inability to remove a damaged insert and it added unnecessary time and expense.

20 Oct 2017

386 AEW completes first flight of Block 5 MQ-9

The 386th Air Expeditionary Wing successfully completed its first combat mission with the latest version of the MQ-9 Reaper in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, recently. The wing’s remotely piloted aircraft unit, the 46th Expeditionary Attack Squadron, transitioned its attack and reconnaissance airframes from the MQ-1B Predator to the Block 5 MQ-9A Reaper.

30 Aug 2017

Compass call reshapes OIR battlefield with electronic warfare domination

Often times when we think about how air power is used in the fight against ISIS, we think about cargo aircraft delivering critical supplies and personnel to the frontlines or bombs being dropped onto targets. What’s not often thought of is how the Air Force has the non-kinetic ability to disrupt enemy communications on the ground and therefore the