Re-invigorating nuclear enterprise a top priority
LOS ANGELES (AFNS) -- Maintaining accountability and improving stewardship of the Air Force's nuclear program is the top priority, said the service's 19th chief of staff recently.
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Predator crashes at Joint Base Balad
SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft system crashed at about 7:30 a.m. Baghdad time Dec. 4 on the Joint Base Balad runway.
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NASA trains pilots to fly high
ELLINGTON FIELD, Texas (AFNS) -- To achieve their dreams of space flight, NASA astronauts must overcome many challenges -- challenges they can only receive at one place.
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E-8C's new engine program takes off
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- America's eye in the sky, the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, will soon be faster, quieter, more efficient and more operationally effective with a major engine upgrade effort now under way here.
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Teamwork helps Manas handle holiday season mail surge
MANAS AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan (AFNS) -- The Manas Air Base Post Office staff knows to expect a huge influx of Christmas and holiday care packages, and to deliver the mountain of mail to base residents it takes teamwork from base volunteers.
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Dec. 3 airpower summary: A-10 bombs anti-Afghan forces
SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 3, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
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Kandahar team provides ammunition to win the fight
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- With a munitions stockpile of 560 line items worth more than $11 million, the job of providing weapons to warfighters at Kandahar Airfield falls to a three-man flight.
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