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  • Military family deploys together, reunites in Kuwait

    ALI AL SALEM AIR BASE, Kuwait -- It is common for young adolescents to feel as if their parents or guardians cannot understand their trials and tribulations as typically generational, cultural and social norms have shifted in the time from when their parents or guardians underwent those same

  • ANG family deployed simultaneously: Sniders’ support 779th EAS

    The term ‘beans and bullets’ was started in the civil war, a time where fathers and sons served together side-by-side. Beans, as in coffee beans, and bullets where items supplied to support the frontlines, similar to the mission here at Ali Al Salem Air Base. For one Illinois family, the tradition

  • Wyoming Senator visits Guardsmen

    Sen. John Barrasso shared a Thanksgiving meal with deployed Wyoming Air National Guardsmen, assigned to the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Southwest Asia Nov. 23. The Wyoming senator, who is also a member of the senate committee on foreign relations, was traveling to engage in discussions

  • ANG dual mission: helping at home and abroad (Part 2 of 2)

    More than 100 Airmen from the 153rd Airlift Wing based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, deployed to the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron recently in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. In September and October, approximately half of the 153rd Airmen deployed here were deployed using their Modular

  • ANG dual mission: helping at home and abroad (Part 1 of 2)

    It wasn’t long ago Airmen from the 158th Airlift Squadron, Savannah, Georgia, were delivering supplies with their fleet of C-130H Hercules aircraft to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But just a few weeks later, they find themselves on the other side of the world in

  • Time Tested: Airman, aircraft serve 21 years together

    For Master Sgt. Norbert Feist, a C-130H crew chief assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, one C-130 in particular, has a special place in his personal Air Force storybook.A Minnesota Air National Guardsman deployed here from the 133rd Airlift Wing, Feist has been working