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  • 621st CRW enables strategic air operations at Qayyarah West

    The wheels of a C-130 Hercules touched down at Qayyarah West Airfield Nov. 11. The tactical airlift workhorse, loaded with supplies and equipment to resupply the Mosul offensive, belonged to the Iraqi air force. The landing was much more than routine. It was symbolic. It represented the first time a

  • Airman from Dominican Republic proud to serve

    Growing up in a destination that most people dream of visiting, one Airman’s father wanted nothing but the best for his son, he wanted to give him the opportunity to live the American dream. Staff Sgt. Angel Moquete, 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron air adviser, was born on the Island of

  • 571st MSAS continues to build partnerships

    The 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron has completed training with the Peruvian Air Force at Las Palmas and Callao Air Bases, Peru, from Sept. 7-25. Fourteen air advisors conducted training on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, aircraft maintenance, combat search and rescue,

  • Devil Raiders sustain air operations at Q-West

    Airmen assigned to the 821st CRG recently arrived to Q-West to conduct air base opening operations in order to enable follow on mobility air forces assets. As Air Mobility Command’s contingency response experts, 821st CRG Airmen are providing the crucial role of sustaining coalition and Iraq forces

  • Devil Raiders supporting the Mosul offensive at Q-West airbase

    U.S. Air Force Col. Rhett Champagne, left, commander, 821st Crisis Response Group, shakes hands with the chief of staff of the Iraqi air force, following the landing of his C-130J Super Hercules at Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2016. This was the first time an aircraft from the Iraqi

  • 621st CRW announces new mission, vision

    The 621st Contingency Response Wing’s commander, Col. Chuck Henderson, unveiled the wing’s new mission and vision statements during an Airman’s call here Oct. 21.The wing’s new mission is to “Advise, Direct, and Project Airpower, Delivering Instruments of National Power to the Leading Edge of Global

  • CRW supporting Mosul offensive

    A U.S. Air Force C-130J landed at Qayyarah-West airbase Oct. 21 marking the culmination of one of the largest and most expeditious airfield repair operations in modern U.S. military history.

  • 321st AMOS Airman takes nursing to another level

    As a child, Capt. Katie Slugocki, 321st Air Mobility Operations Squadron flight nurse, would tag along with her mother, who has now been a nurse for more than 30 years, while she worked and saw the impact her mother had on her patients’ lives.   Since she was just a young girl using her mother’s

  • Contingency Response Airmen provide mobility expertise during RF-A

    Overthe course of 12days in October with temperatures dropping below freezing in the“Last Frontier” Airmen from the 621stContingency Response Wing provided rapid global mobility expertiseduring RED FLAG-Alaska 17-1. The621st CRW Airmen worked three different locations throughout Alaskaassuring