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  • Mako pilots motivated to succeed at Red Flag

    The skies of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., rumble with force from F-16 fighter jets. The stage is set and the pilots fly over the open-range of the fictitious country of Coyote and prepare to destroy the threat. The enemy has engaged and attempts to take down the pilot through means of tactical

  • Maintaining the mission

    Maintaining an F-16 aircraft is no easy task. Add extra flying missions, longer shifts and increased safety hazards, and the task is more daunting than usual. But the Airmen of the 482nd Maintenance Group of Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., are up for the challenge. Last week, more than 100 Airmen

  • Makos return to Red Flag after a 16 year absence

    For the first time in 16 years, members of the 93rd Fighter Squadron "Makos" and members of the 482nd Fighter Wing deployed to Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., to participate in the advanced aerial combat training exercise, Red Flag. "Participating in Red Flag is a huge milestone for the Air Force

  • AF, Navy help Red Cross volunteers reach Haiti

    Air Force and Navy personnel helped deliver approximately 70 American Red Cross volunteers to Haiti, Jan. 21, to help improve communications between medical staff on the USNS Comfort and Haitian patients.The deployment was the largest in the Red Cross' recent history, according an ARC

  • Russian plane helps U.S. move mobile air traffic control tower to Haiti

    In a true demonstration of the international support of the relief efforts in Haiti, U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration officials paired with a Russian airlift contractor Jan. 21 to deliver a mobile air traffic control tower to the Port-au-Prince airport.The mobile tower will stay in

  • Feeding the masses

    The normally quiet base at Homestead has suddenly become the eye of the storm for the United States military humanitarian relief efforts during Operation Unified Response. The sudden influx of personnel coming on and off base as well as the constant stream of evacuees being in-processed here has led

  • Homestead Air Reserve Base offers respite for Haiti earthquake victims

    Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti Jan. 12, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., has turned into a staging point where Air Force Airmen are delivering earthquake victims to reunite with relatives and loved ones. The base, located approximately 25 miles southwest of Miami, has

  • American Red Cross aids military relief effort at Homestead

    The American Red Cross is providing support to thousands of evacuees from Haiti at a processing center here in support of Operation Unified Response, the U.S. military's Haitian relief effort. "We are providing for two sites here, one for evacuees and another for the air crews flying them in," said