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  • U.S. Airmen treat hundreds of Indonesian earthquake victims

    With only one of the four local hospitals operational, a U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team here continues to help local medical professionals treat an increasing number of patients in the wake of recent earthquakes. HARRT members have cared for more than 200 patients in the

  • Kadena Airmen aid Indonesian recovery operations

    Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group from here are supporting humanitarian relief operations near Padang in western Indonesia after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake and a slightly smaller one struck Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Members of the 320th Special Tactics Squadron and 17th Special Operations

  • Samurai maintenance: 14th AMU is a cut above

    Editor's Note: First in a series of six on the 14th Aircraft Maintenance Unit When an F-16 Fighting Falcon lands with a mechanical problem, it cannot fix itself. Repairs can only be completed by a group of trained professionals dedicated to excellence in all they do. Enter the 14th Aircraft

  • Technology streamlines energy use

    The Air Force is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In order to optimize mission capability and practice responsible stewardship of resources, its members continuously seek ways to reduce consumption wherever possible, said Francis Sheridan, 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron

  • 15th Airlift Wing brings relief to tsunami victims

    Eleven 15th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster IIIs carrying 157 passengers and 378.3 short tons of cargo provided humanitarian relief this week to American Samoa, neighboring Samoa and Tonga after the islands were stuck by a 15-foot tsunami, generated by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake Sept. 29. Teaming

  • U.S. Air Force HARRT arrives in Indonesia

    A U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team arrived at the Bandar Udara International Airport late in the evening Oct. 5 with approximately 200,000 pounds of medical and contingency response equipment. The 69-member team set up a mobile field hospital near the M. Jamil hospital here