Spouses get a taste of mission

From fire truck to KC-135, family members of the Mission Support Group got a hands-on tour of Fairchild Wednesday. During the group's first-ever Spouse Orientation, spouses and children spent little more than half a day attending interactive demonstrations and mini field trips covering a large

Center of Excellence opens its doors to first set of redeployers

The kids are getting restless; the TV can only hold their attention for so long. Families are waiting in the break room, waiting for their Airmen, waiting for reunion, waiting. Twenty-two maintainers and two KC-135 crews returned to Fairchild Monday after a deployment to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan,

Security forces Airmen complete 'Fly Away' course at Fort Dix

Sixty security forces Airmen from across the Air Force prepared for an overseas deployment while attending the Fly Away Security Training, or FAST, Course 07-1 Jan. 18 here. Each student gained new skills in everything from hand-to-hand combat to anti-hijacking training. The FAST course is the first

Chief McMillon shares his wisdom with Grand Forks AFB Airmen

Fairchild welcomes Honorary Commanders

A new group of Fairchild Honorary Commanders were officially welcomed during a reception at the wing commander's residence Saturday night. Local business and civic leaders, Honorary Commanders are chosen based on their ability and willingness to carry the Fairchild story to friends and associates in

Medications being used to harm instead of heal

Most parents know to keep medicine out of the hands of small children. However, toddlers and pre-schoolers aren't the only ones sneaking into cabinets and causing trouble. Many teenagers and young adults are now using over-the-counter and prescription drugs as an easy and cheap way to get high, said

AMWC’s Mobility Operations School earns major award for online air transportation career field course

An online course aimed at training students in the Air Force air transportation career field in aerial port air freight operations earned a Gold Award in the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in E-Learning Awards competition in Denver, Colo., in late 2006.The Air Mobility Warfare Center's Mobility

Former TACC vice assumes center's command

Maj. Gen. Ron Ladnier formally assumed command of the 18th Air Force's Tanker Airlift Control Center here Jan. 22 in a change-of-command ceremony. General Ladnier had served as the TACC's vice commander since July. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, III, who moves on to an assignment as deputy

Gone with the wings: The removal process is in full swing at site of C-5 mishap

The wings of the C-5 aircraft that landed short of the runway here April 3, 2006, were removed Wednesday by an Ohio-based contractor. Using giant mobile shears, InterGroup International, a company that buys, reprocesses and sells post-industrial scrap, chopped the wings off the remaining C-5 shell

Travis trains Pacific AMC crews to maintain KC-10s

In an effort to streamline KC-10 maintenance responsibilities in the Pacific theater, the 60th Maintenance Operations Squadron developed a two-phase course designed to train en-route maintainers how to recover aircraft and perform basic maintenance tasks to help move aircraft through the theater