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  • 43d ABS Airman selected for CISM U.S. Armed Forces soccer team

    Senior Airman Benjamin Latimer, assigned to the 43d Air Base Squadron at Pope Field, was recently selected for the Conseil International du Sport Militaire team as a representative of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is currently competing in the 2017 CISM Soccer Championship in Muscat, Oman, which

  • Joint every day: Pope Airmen, 82nd Airborne train for deployments

    Frigid temperatures and a winter storm that shut down most of North Carolina Saturday couldn’t stop the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group and 82nd Airborne Division from holding a Deployment Readiness Exercise at Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, Jan. 6-11.

  • Airmen hold annual Toy Trot run, toy donation event

    More than 130 Airmen participated in the 43d Air Mobility Operations Group Toy Trot on a chilly morning here Dec. 7. Toy Trot is a run and toy donation event held annually in conjunction with the Army’s Operation Toy Drop here, and organizers for both events donate collected toys to local

  • 43d AMOG welcomes Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, command chief

    Maj. Gen. Christopher Bence, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, listens as an Airman poses a question during the 43d Air Mobility Operations Group All Call held here Nov. 15. Bence toured Air Force units at Pope Field along with Chief Master Sgt. Larry Williams, AFEC command chief, Nov.

  • Flooding impacts Pope Airmen, operations

    POPE FIELD, N.C. -- A C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, sits on Green Ramp here early Sept. 29 during a storm which dumped more than nine inches of rain on the base in two days, resulting in flooding and washed out roads around the installation. Crews from McChord and

  • Air Force, Army planners find ways to see greater jump in airdrops

    An arriving C-130 Hercules taxies to a large hangar where about 60 Army paratroopers wait to board. Lugging about 100 pounds of gear, the Soldiers quickly line up and load into the aircraft as its four idling engines blow hot gusts over the tarmac. Minutes later, the plane is flying at 150 mph and

  • Pope unit guides transient aircraft on joint missions

    Any aircraft that flies into Pope Army Airfield, Col. Kelly Holbert will know about it. But Holbert’s unit, the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, has no aircraft of its own. As the only en route operations group in the continental U.S., the unit manages transient aircraft and the joint missions

  • Airmen practice Ebola safety during Exercise Mobility Solace

    ir Mobility Command Airmen flew an aeromedical evacuation of a simulated Ebola patient from Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, during Exercise Mobility Solace, Aug. 15-17, 2016.Mobility Solace provided AMC and its joint partners, the opportunity to evaluate the procedures and

  • CCT students under pressure in tactics exercise

    Rumbling down a dirt road in a Medium Tactical Vehicle cargo truck, a team of special operators quietly awaits for chaos to ensue. The truck grinds to a halt in an intersection in the forest. It’s clear why in a second: a voice squawks over the radio that a roadside bomb rendered their truck