435th AEW NEWS ARTICLES

  • U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Brad Harbaugh, 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron commander, gives commanders of the Forces Armées Nigeriennes and Agadez civic leaders a tour of base construction projects Feb. 21, 2018, at Nigerien Air Base 201, Niger. Harbaugh used the tour to discuss with civic leaders how integrated capabilities and interoperability promote regional partnerships. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Wilson)

    Airmen, Agadez civic leaders build partnership

    Nigerien civic leaders, regional security officials, religious leaders and media reporters from the Agadez region, met with U.S. and Nigerien military leaders from the 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron during a tour of Nigerien Air Base 201, Feb. 21. The purpose of the visit was to educate local leaders and demystify concerns the local community may have about the construction projects on base.
  • U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Douglas N. Spangler, 822nd Expeditionary Base Defense Squadron Security Forces squad leader, speaks to children from a nearby village outside of Air Base 201, Niger, Dec. 11, 2017. Spangler led a 13-member patrol team to find a missing two-year-old girl who was lost for six hours outside of Air Base 201. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Dewberry)

    Airmen save missing child, sharpen interoperability

    Recently, an 822nd Expeditionary Base Defense Squadron security forces patrol team collaborated with local military members to rescue a two-year-old girl, after being notified by local villagers that she was lost near Nigerien Air Base 201. “She simply wandered away from the village in the late evening hours,” said Chief Master Sgt. Rick A. Schlachter, 822nd EBDS Security Forces manager. “By village we're literally talking mud and stick huts in the middle of the desert.”
  • 435th CTS houses deployed Airmen

    435th CTS houses deployed Airmen

    The 435th Construction Training Squadron housed more than 80 recently deployed members of the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing from Jan. 11 – 13, 2018, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
  • 435 AEW, 86 LRS Airmen load pallets near the Ramstein Air Base flight line

    435th AEW provides logistics support for down range Airmen

  • AF Security Forces and Army MPs work together to defend the mission

    AF Security Forces and Army MPs work together to defend the mission

    The 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron Security Forces Flight and U.S. Army 411th Military Police Company, 89th MP Brigade, 1st Platoon Military Police work together to protect Nigerien Air Base 201, in Agadez, Niger.
  • 724th EABS communication squadron stays in touch with the outside world

    724th EABS communication flight stays in touch with the outside world

    The 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron communications flight is responsible for the phone, radio and online networks that allows deployed Airmen to stay in touch with colleagues and loved ones from a deployed environment, in Agadez, Niger.
  • 724th EABS Services provides morale, welfare and readiness in a deployed environment

    724th EABS Services provides morale, welfare and readiness in a deployed environment

    The 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron services section provides for the dining, recreation and gym facilities for the recently built Nigerien Air Base 201 in Agadez, Niger.
  • The 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron medical section conducted a three-day women’s hygiene class for 25 women from the Association of Nigerien Women Against War from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14, 2017, in Agadez, Niger.

    724th EABS medical team teaches hygiene class to local Women’s Association

    The 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron medical section conducted a three-day women’s hygiene class for 25 women from the Association of Nigerien Women Against War from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14, 2017, in Agadez, Niger.
  • 3rd AF commander meets Airmen deployed to Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya

    3rd Air Force commander and command chief visit AFAFRICA Airmen

    Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, 3rd Air Force/17th Expeditionary Air Force commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Cruz Munoz, 3rd AF/17th EAF command chief, traveled throughout Africa to meet deployed Airmen across the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing, from Oct. 16 - 20.
  • Air Base 201 at Agadez moves for FLEXIT

    Air Base 201 at Agadez moves for FLEXIT

    Airmen deploy around the world, getting the mission done day in and day out. However, few will get the chance to see their base being built from the ground up.
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