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  • POW, Airman inspires Charleston Airmen

    Retired U.S. Air Force Capt. William Robinson, the longest surviving enlisted prisoner of war, visited here as the guest speaker at an awards ceremony for the 437th Maintenance Group, March 17."I heard him speak at the NCO Academy and was amazed," said Tech. Sgt. John Paull, 437th Aircraft

  • An Airman’s Pearl Harbor survival story

    Sitting at the Hickam Field, Hawaii, switchboard while covering a work shift for a friend, he heard machine gun fire from outside. His first thought was  of his mother telling him not to join the service. It was too late now.Covering this shift for his fellow Airman would alter Private Mike

  • Three generations of serving the Air Force

    Going back to 1961, when television stations still broadcast in black and white, telephones were rotary dial and humans had not yet visited the moon, the Wehunt family has had someone in the United States Air Force.Today, at a time with hundreds of color cable networks, smartphones and the moon