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Det. 4 is the design and construction manager while AFCEC monitors construction execution to ensure the efforts stay on time and within budget. The construction, supporting the European Deterrence Initiative implemented by U.S. European Command, is expected to enhance security across Europe and increase the responsiveness and readiness of U.S. air forces and NATO member state forces in the region. “The EDI program includes construction of airfield infrastructure and supporting facilities necessary to sustain the Air Force’s combat operations and surveillance missions while also increasin...

The 378th Expeditionary Operations Group hosted F-16CJ Fighting Falcon “hot pit” refueling training at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for aircraft maintainers from Al Udeid AB, Qatar, April 29 to May 4, 2021.Hot pit refueling occurs when,

nd AEW suffered what most would consider an unrecoverable tragedy. Senior Airman Francis Andrew was born in Sudan in Northeast Africa where one night his town suffered the ravages of civil war, as soldiers attacked without warning ripping him from the life he’d known until that point. This is how his journey to the United States and to the U.S. Air Force began in 2001.  He found himself at a refugee camp first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. He spent 14 years—all of his childhood in those camps. “You see a lot of things that kids should not see—you see people dying in front of you, th...

Airmen with the 612th Air Base Squadron traveled to the Children of Love Foundation Orphanage in La Paz delivering donations to 18 orphans who call the sanctuary home, April 25. Most units on base have a local orphanage they sponsor, but for Airmen with the 612th ABS, this visit marks the second time they’ve visited their newly-sponsored orphanage. "This particular orphanage is one my lieutenant, back at Davis-Monthan [Air Force Base, Arizona], told me about since her and her family come to visit an orphanage, every year,” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Duane Reid, 612th ABS director of opera...

By Staff Sgt. Miranda A. Loera, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs / Published April 15, 2021 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Steven C. Rehana, 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron cryogenics technician, purges a liquid oxygen cart at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2021. The cryogenics flight is responsible for providing more than 4,000 gallons of liquid oxygen per month to aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Miranda A. Loera) U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Steven C. Rehana, 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron cryoge...