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FEATURES

  • Expeditionary Center armory fires up training for Airmen

    Aided by having the largest store of foreign weapons in the service, the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's armory and its staff help Airmen get more "bang for their buck" for pre-deployment training. "In any 30-day span, we'll have from 50 to more than 800 guns out at any given time," said Tech.

  • Phoenix Raven training highlights security forces capabilities

    Students in the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Phoenix Raven program here face many challenges in their quest to attain a coveted security forces Raven patch. The course, taught by the 421st Combat Training Squadron, originated in the late 1990s after a need was seen to better protect

  • Grand Forks AFB celebrates Navy officer's life, 100th birthday

    1908. A year which saw the development of Henry Ford's Model T automobile, selling for $850; a stamp being sold for 2 cents and the World Series being won by the Chicago Cubs. It was also the birth year of Richmond Day, who went on to serve his country in two wars retiring as Lt. Cmdr in the United

  • Expeditionary Course teaches CRG mission, capabilities to Airmen

    Originally started in January 2007 under a different name, the Mobility Operations School's Contingency Response Mission Orientation Course has grown into a training venue where more than 500 Airmen have trained for roles in a contingency response unit. "Our first class, first called the Contingency

  • Command Post keeps gears turning on global mobility

    Buried in a building here is a pitch dark room with no windows that is packed with computer and projection screens. Watching these monitors are the disembodied, silhouetted heads of 436th Airlift Wing Command Post controllers, who work behind the scenes to keep Dover's global airlift mission

  • Berlin Airlift lays foundation for today's air mobility

    Sixty years ago today, the fledgling United States Air Force airlifted its first of 2.3 million tons of coal, food and supplies to the besieged city of Berlin. Stalin had cut off all ground transportation through Russian territory to the surrounded city of Berlin. The Berlin Airlift sustained a city

  • "Reliability, maintainability and availability:" a challenge fulfilled

    A former squadron commander here made a list of characteristics, which included military commitment and availability, experience and rank with retainability. He also expected excitement from his Airmen for the new C-17. Summing it all up he said, "I need a squadron of locomotives." It is safe to

  • Deployed Pope C-130 crew saves severely burned Iraqi woman

    What does the recipe for an extraordinary human feat call for? For those involved in the mission of a severely burned Iraqi woman it called for one pound of hard work, a dash of know-how and a pinch of never quit. In the early morning hours of April 30, the flight crew of the 746th Expeditionary

  • Preparing for the unthinkable

    New parents often complain with love that their babies grow up too quickly. But at around seven months old, Elise Rochman's parents began to worry the opposite -- that she wasn't growing up quickly enough. Elise still wasn't sitting up on her own, a task normally mastered between four and seven