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Tag: Aviano Air Base

Senior Airman Anthony Bell, 31st Logistics Readiness squadron fuels service center controller demonstrates capabilities of the new Fluid Powered Additive Injector Carts concept to Mission Support Group leadership

April 3, 2023

Fuels management flight introduces new, innovative refueling capability to wing

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Aviano Air Base website — The 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron Fuels Management Flight conducted a new jet fueling capability demonstration to base leadership, 17 March.

Senior Airman Chase Gilmour, 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chief, prepares an F-35A Lightning II fighter jet for refueling during Astral Knight 2019 on June 5, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The F-35A brings an enhanced capability to survive in an advance threat environment in which it was designed to operate. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jim Araos)

June 6, 2019

Astral Knight 2019: Maintainers sharpen F-35A

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa website — Deployed maintainers of the 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit prepare F-35A Lightning II fighter jets to contribute to exercise Astral Knight 2019 on the flightline of Aviano Air Base, Italy.

May 10, 2019

Immediate Response 2019 kicks off with 512th Contingency Response Element coordination

Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 512th Airlift Wing website — The 512th Contingency Response Element, an Air Force Reserve unit assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, arrived here to participate in Immediate Response 2019, a multinational exercise, co-led by the Croatian Armed Forces, Slovenian Armed Forces and U.S. Army Europe.

Airmen wait in line to purchase the Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform at Military Clothing Sales on Aviano Air Base Oct. 1, 2018.

Oct. 4, 2018

The Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform has arrived at Aviano Air Base

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Aviano Air Base website — The Aviano AAFES Military Clothing Sales staff was ready Monday morning Oct. 1 to start selling the new Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform.

(From left) Staff Sgt. Chantz Wyant and Airman 1st Class Aaron Debolt, 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels facility personnel, walk to a cryogenic tank, Aug. 10, 2016, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Cryogenics Airmen must wear special equipment to protect themselves from the liquid oxygen and nitrogen’s dangerously low temperatures of minus 297 and minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit respectively. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Areca T. Bell/Released)

Aug. 19, 2016

Cryogenics give pilots breath of fresh air

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Aviano Air Base website — Pilots operating at high altitudes need to bring oxygen with them to prevent hypoxia; luckily there are Team Aviano Airmen dedicated to making this happen.