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  • Stellar NCOs are Leading Edge of JB MDL

    Twenty-five service members from seven installation units participated in the Leading Edge seminar Oct. 20-25, 2013, here. Leading Edge is a program designed to give top performing E-5s and E-6s from all service branches a view of the installation's strategic operations and leadership, providing

  • Sharpshooter training prepares defenders for demanding AF course

    A truckload of insurgents rolls slowly toward the back side of an airbase where an American cargo plane has just landed to unload food and medical teams. They figure this little dirt road will allow them to sneak up undetected, so they can probe for weaknesses and a find way to stop the relief

  • Mauritanian Airmen visit JBMDL, CRW

    The 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron takes multiple trips each year to work alongside of African partner nations. Mauritania returned the favor with a visit of their own Sept. 15 to 20. Capt. Ahmed Babow, Mauritanian Islamic Air Force (FAIM) Atar base commander from Atar, Mauritania, and

  • EC commander visits JBMDL contingency response team

    The commander of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center here visited the 621st Contingency Response Wing Oct. 2. Maj. Gen. Frederick "Rick" Martin, who has prior U.S Air Force contingency response experience from his time commanding the 615th Air Mobility Operations Group at Travis Air Force Base

  • MSAS air advisors work with AFAFRICA to share ideas with Angolan AF

    U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Air Forces Africa worked together with a 621st Contingency Response Wing traveling contact team to conduct a building partnership engagement in Luanda, Angola from Sept. 9 to 13.   The engagement gave 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron air advisors and Angolan

  • 5 mobility school courses held at once

    With the right combination of people and places, the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center Mobility Operations School, Detachment 2, here, held five courses at the same time simultaneously.The schoolhouse offers 17 different curriculums to support the Air Mobility Command mission, but they had never

  • Maj Gen Martin visits Charleston, speaks with 628th Airmen

    Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, conducted a two-day visit of Joint Base Charleston Sept. 16 and 17, touring the base, as well as concluding his visit by hosting an All Call in the JB Charleston - Air Base Theater.The commander's visit included tours of the

  • CRW establishes remote airbase in 'Pitch Black' exercise

    Approximately 90 members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing participated in exercise Pitch Black at the Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, Calif., from Sept. 9 to 13. The exercise was a joint effort with active duty, air guard and contingency response units providing training in command and

  • Air, ground mobility teams work together, conduct low-cost training

    The 621st Contingency Response Wing trained with familiar faces for upgrade training at a discount price, Sept. 2 to 9. The 143rd Airlift Wing from Quonset Point Air National Guard Station, R.I., hosted 63 members 818th Contingency Response Group, stationed here, and members of the 689th Rapid

  • MG Martin assumes command of USAF Expeditionary Center

    Maj. Gen. Frederick "Rick" Martin assumed command of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center during a ceremony Sept. 9, 2013, at the Expeditionary Center, here. General Paul J. Selva, Air Mobility Command commander, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., presided over the event, attended by nearly 200 service