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NEWS

  • Charleston becomes first AFB to ship HMEEs

    Charleston Air Force Base began receiving and shipping six new U.S. Army High Mobility Engineer Excavator vehicles to warfighters in Southwest Asia Sept. 29.The HMEEs will be transported to forward deployed locations to assist Soldiers and contractors in hostile environments. The HMEE is a newly

  • Voter registration deadline nears for Airmen and dependents

    The deadline for Airmen and their voting-eligible dependents to register to vote in the 2008 general election is nearing in most states. While the registration window is currently open for all states and unincorporated territories, except Puerto Rico, registration windows will close as early as

  • AMC assumes operational control of Little Rock AFB

    Air Mobility Command accepts operational control of Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., Oct. 1, marking the end of a series of realignment actions at the base from the latest round of Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations. Numerous aircraft and unit realignments at Little Rock

  • Training prepares PRTs to help Afghan people

    Airmen and Soldiers alike sat in a five-man High Mobilty Multi-Wheeled Vehicle waiting patiently for the target to pop up, provoking the gunner to act with nimble hands as he unleashed his weapon on the threatening target. This mixed group of Air Force and Army personnel has been working together

  • Air Mobility Battlelab deactivates after 10 years

    At 2 p.m. on Sept. 24, the Air Mobility Battlelab was no longer a unit in the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center, or the Air Force.In front of the center's commander, Maj. Gen. Kip Self, and the battlelab's last commander, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Lathrop, the unit's flag was rolled up and ceremoniously

  • AMC vice commander calls Expeditionary Center 'transformational'

    Lt. Gen. Vern "Rusty" Findley marks the passing of time not in hurried minutes or seconds, but in the lingering days of a paper calendar. "Two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine days is a long time," the vice commander of the Air Mobility Command said, counting the number of days since the