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  • Airmen from the 137th SOW, Tinker participate in tactical medical training

    Twenty-two members from the 137th Special Operations Medical Group, 137th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (137th AES), and the 72nd Medical Group from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City participated in a Tactical Combat Casualty Care for Medical Personnel (TCCC-MP) course on Aug. 3-4, 2020, at

  • Little Rock maintainers ensure mission success at home, abroad

    Charged with maintaining and servicing the world’s largest C-130J Super Hercules fleet at home station, the operations tempo of the 19th Maintenance Group doesn’t relent when they deploy. In fact, they’re responsible for providing safe, reliable and immediate agile combat airlift across two theaters

  • USAF, USA bring joint humanitarian aid to Beirut

    AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar -- In a joint endeavor to assist the Lebanese Armed Forces and the people of Lebanon, Soldiers and Airmen stationed in Qatar worked to load the first U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III with humanitarian aid Aug. 6, 2020.Members from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, Air

  • Overcoming COVID-19 challenges, USAF EC instructors find ways to train

    Laptop? Check. Charger? Check. Loads of coffee to get through this unprecedented time? Check! While this may have been how many Airmen were preparing to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors from the 421st Combat Training Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, were

  • Air Force recognizes Safe + Sound Week

    The Department of the Air Force partners with OSHA in Safe + Sound Week each August. Safe + Sound is a nationwide event to raise awareness about workplace safety.

  • MacDill beating the heat with innovation

    It is 5 P.M. and you have been outside on a hot and humid 105-degree day for 12 hours. All you can think about is being able to go inside and feel a cool breeze from the air conditioning unit in your car and house; imagine if you did not have to go inside to stay cool.Aiming to allow military

  • Little Rock utilizes mountainous terrain for pre-deployment training

    The 41st Airlift Squadron, alongside members from the 19th Operations Support Squadron, 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, and the 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron, traveled to Montrose Regional Airport, Colorado to conduct a two-week pre-deployment training cycle, July 18 to August 1.

  • Running toward virtual excellence

    The Scott Air Force Base run clinic is an eight-week program held Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. It is designed to help improve a person’s run time for the 1.5 mile run portion of the Air Force physical fitness test through speed and endurance workouts. Anyone 18 and over can