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  • 'Tiger' saves boy in Africa

    Nine-year-old Alex Vadis Teye has a skull twice the size of a normal child his age and it's still growing. Water consumes 80 percent of the space where his brain should be. His prognosis was bleak. "Was" is the key word, thanks to the efforts of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician

  • Here comes the Boom!

    "We have 10,000 pounds of net explosive weight on the pad right now," said Tech. Sgt. Erick Chrostowski. "If you see anybody running, try to keep up." This was the simplified version of the safety brief given to observers by the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron AMMO production supervisor

  • Challenges No Match For Joint Task Force

    Ice storms in Kentucky. Dust storms in the Middle East. Thunderstorms across Europe. A typhoon in the Indian Ocean. They sound like individual, unrelated weather events. Now add having to organize, plan, and execute a military operation across the entire width of Africa, and do it all within a

  • Airmen find softer side in Africa

    In less than 12 hours Airmen from Joint Task Force-Nomad Fire (West) brought a humanitarian outreach event from concept to fruition benefiting 150 orphaned children here Feb. 18. The task force members deployed here to support U.S. President George Bush's visit to Africa. The team heard there was a

  • Expeditionary comm. team overcomes hurdles to provide presidential support

    An expeditionary communications unit here successfully overcame several challenges while supporting the president's three-day stopover to the east African nation. During setup, the 1st Combat Communications Squadron team encountered computer power problems in the command and control tent. They

  • Response element tallies successes in Africa

    The flurry of scattered U.S. Air Force uniforms against a backdrop of C-17As, C-21s and C-130s seem to waiver and distort in the heat radiating off the blacktop. The landscape is flat with a border of thick green vegetation in the distance, seemingly outlining a property line.Unfamiliar commercial