Volume 4 Issue 6 506th Air Expeditionary Group,, Kirkuk Air Base,, Iraq March 13, 2006 News Briefs KRAB SMSgt. Selectee Master Sgt. Anthony Newton, 506th AEG Ammo, was selected for promotion to senior master sergeant. March promotees The following Airmen were promoted in the month of March: To the rank of Airman 1st Class - Hampton Ceron, Justin Edwards Zackary Hull, Karen Thorogood and Ava Turner, 506th SFS To the rank of Senior Airman - Abby Daws, 506th AEG; Woodrow Ellis, Jonathon Kirby, and Jonathon Lamme, 506th ESFS To the rank of Staff Sgt. - Sirron Chambers, Madson Quinn and Photo by Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett Frederick Rinke, 506th ECES; James A bite is worse than the bark Rila, 506th ECS; Samuel Kirkwood, 506th EOSS; and Gerald Currie, 506th Staff Sgt. Dewan Rakesh feels the bite of Breston, a military working dog ESFS assigned to the 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. Staff Sgt. To the rank of Technical Sgt. - Clinton Cornelison lets Breston enjoy the bite before calling him off. Carlos Pabon, 727th EACS To the rank of Master Sgt. - See Page 6 for the full story Mark Deitz, 506th ELRS; and Robert Kisner, 506th ESFS Monthly award winners CENTAF commander visits base The following Airmen are the monthly By Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett after taking command of CENTAF.” award winners for March: 506th AEG Public Affairs The general spent time with the 506th Airman of the Month Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, the Senior Airman Rock Conley, 506th ELRS The new commander of U.S. Central 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Noncommissioned Officer Command Air Forces visited Kirkuk March Squadron, the 506th Expeditionary Staff Sgt. Charles Cowart, 3 to experience the mission of the base. Operations Support Squadron and the 727th 506th ECES Expeditionary Air Control Squadron. At Senior NCO Lt. Gen. Gary North spent approximately Master Sgt. Russell Leatherman, 4 hours on base visiting various units and every location, the general offered words of 506th ESFS having lunch with selected Airmen. support for deployed Airmen. Company Grade Officer “My goal is to get out there and see the “No one needs to tell you what a great job 1st Lt. Jacob Leck, 506th ECES you do – you already know that,” he said to Saber Team troops,” General North said. “Meeting our 506th EOSS Air Traffic Control/Tower Airmen allows me to frame my sight picture see CFACC tours Kirkuk , Page 3 Staff Sgt. Bruno Garcia and Senior Airman Nicholas Day What’s Inside http://intranet.krab.cent News Feature af.ds.af.mil/aeg/Public% Iraqi Air Force 5Faffairs/DOCS/ Civil engineers stands up step outside the DD2266.htm wire Page 4 Page 7 Page 2 Commentary Krab Kronicle Message from the group command chief KRAB must focus on the mission By Chief Master Sgt. Larry Seibel Yes, these two short months have been mission. This is still a very dangerous and 506th AEG Command Chief exciting, memorable and at times trying. volatile region we live in and the war is From my perspective it has been one of going on all around us. Hello to all Air Expeditionary Force 9-10 the best experiences I have had in my long Remember, complacency kills, and I for Warriors. For most folks two months have military career. one don’t want anything bad to happen to already come and gone since arriving at In a short period of any one of you. For the Kirkuk Regional Air Base. time, you have come rest of this tour please For most, your tour is half over. Time flies together as a team and always lookout for your when you are having fun. Do you remember done some great things. I wingman. Always stay the first few days after you arrived here, you am so impressed with each vigilant of your surround- stood at the air terminal and waved as the and every one of you and ings and please take care people you replaced boarded a C-130 and am proud to serve with of one another. departed for home. you and be your Group Please remember you In two short months you are ambassadors of the have met many new people United States of America Each and everyone of you and worked many long hours and were sent to Iraq to each day learning new jobs are outstanding individuals help stabilize this country and the mission. and the Air Force’s best so its citizens can live in a In two short months I have society that is free and witnessed extraordinary Air- and brightest. In years to just. men from all walks of life come, you will look back at I truly believe because doing extraordinary things. I of your efforts here at your experience here at KRAB and realize that you witnessed Active Duty, Guard KRAB and the efforts of and Reserve, bond together as helped make a difference. all coalition forces, one a team, become friends, and day freedom will ring in become a family. Yes - I said family! Chief Enlisted Manager. Iraq. Everyday since you arrived at KRAB you What I ask you now is to keep focused Each and everyone of you are outstanding have eaten together, worked together, lived and committed for the rest of this deploy- individuals and the Air Force’s best and together, and huddled down in “Alarm Red” ment. brightest. In years to come, you will look together. After being here for two months it is very back at your experience here at KRAB and When you think about it, KRAB is just a easy to start seeing “the light at the end of the realize that you helped make a difference. little city and we are its citizens. I have seen tunnel.” You are now on the “down hill In closing, remember safety first, stay our unit members take pride in this old Iraqi slide” of this deployment and each and focused on the mission and take care of each Air Force Base and do things to make quali- everyone of you can visualize getting on that other. Thank you for your service to your ty of life a lot better for the next AEF rota- C-130 and going home. country and what you do. I will see you on tion. I ask you to please stay focused on our the C-130 in two months. Col. Pete Hronek Commander Vol. 4, Issue 6 March 13, 2006 506th AEG Lt. Col. Dave Carrell Deputy Commander 506th AEG This funded newspaper is an authorized photographs unless otherwise indicated. Chief Master Sgt. publication for members of the U.S. military The Krab Kronicle accepts stories, services overseas. Contents of the Krab photographs and commentaries, which may Larry Seibel Kronicle are not necessarily the views of, or be submitted to the public affairs staff, Command Chief endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the located in the group headquarters building, 506th AEG Department of Defense, or the Department or can be sent directly to the newspaper at Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett of the Air Force. [email protected] Deadline for The content is edited, prepared and publication is 7 p.m. Thursday prior to the Editor/Chief, Public Affairs provided by the public affairs office of the week of publication. Airman 1st Class JoAnn White 506th Air Expeditionary Group. For more information, call 444-2075, or Photographer All photographs are U.S. Air Force e-mail the editor/chief. Krab Kronicle News Page 3 ELRS adopts a road, cleans up trash By Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett Jerez, vehicle main- 506th AEG Public Affairs tenance, posted at either end of the Members of the 506th Expeditionary road. The unit wants Logistics Readiness Squadron hit the road to everyone to know make Kirkuk a better place. who’s out there The squadron adopted the running route cleaning in hopes of between the skeleton hanger and the military getting other units service station in an effort to make the out there too. KRAB a better place. “We’re hoping “The goal from Day 1 for ELRS was to other squadrons fol- leave this place better than we found it,” said low the lead of Senior Master Sgt. Lori Pulkinen, senior ELRS and adopt a enlisted manager. “We wanted to find a way stretch of road to to make a difference.” help keep KRAB Make a difference they did – fourteen vol- clean,” Sergeant unteers, including the squadron commander Pulkinen said. Photo bt Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett Lt. Col. Daniel Schmidt and security forces Squadrons inter- Airman 1st Class Jorge Barnes, vehicle maintenance, talks first sergeant Master Sgt. William McCoy, ested in adopting a trash during the ELRS adopt a road clean up. Fourteen picked up 6 truckloads of trash. road must take into Airmen picked up 6 truckloads of trash. Among the items found were old tires, account safety and spools of barbed wire and one rusty bed force protection issues, depending on which what they pick up and be on the look out for frame, along with other various roadside road they want to adopt. possible unexploded ordnance. trash. “If a unit is interested in adopting a road He stressed if UXO's are discovered to “The clean up is part of our responsibility on the interior of the base, there are no follow proper marking and reporting proce- to make a better environment,” said Master issues,” said Tech Sgt. Rich Amann, anti-ter- dures. “With the recent rains, it is possible Sgt. Mark Deitz, vehicle fleet manager and rorism/force protection NCOIC. “However, UXO's that weren't visible before may now driving force behind the clean up.