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NEWS

  • McChord Annex reopens for fitness

    The McChord Field Fitness Center Annex reopened Nov. 16 with several new and improved fitness resources for the JBLM community. After 10 months of restorations and refurbishment, some of the biggest differences gym goers will notice include remodeled locker rooms, new exercise equipment and an

  • McChord Field stays prepared with MOBEX

    The key to ensuring deployment is a success requires hours of work and collaboration from Team McChord. The 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings and 627th Air Base Group conducted a mobility exercise, or MOBEX, here Nov. 5 to 10 to enhance those skills and keep the three units prepared for deployment

  • MTLs at Fairchild show Airmen the ropes

    Imagine being responsible for counseling, mentoring and being an example to approximately 2,000 new Airmen a year. Imagine these Airmen coming from all walks of life, yet they need the same formal training to integrate into military life. Imagine having to be familiar with 10 different career

  • Mobility Airmen assist with 18-ton humanitarian delivery

    The 612th Air Base Squadron here and the 2nd Air Refueling Squadron from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., worked together with the U.S. Agency for International Development to ship humanitarian aid here Oct. 21 and 25.While the 2nd ARS delivered 21 pallets with 18 tons of it medical supplies

  • Military supports Science Foundation in Antarctica

    Air Force Lt. Col. Ed "Hertz" Vaughan is spending 50 days in colder conditions than most will ever experience to promote scientific research.Colonel Vaughn -- commander of McMurdo Detachment 1 and deputy commander of the 13th Air Expeditionary Group, Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica -- is

  • Fairchild structural maintenance Airmen keep tankers ready

    Leonardo DaVinci created his art on canvas. Beethoven composed music on the piano. Ansel Adams shot his with film and Fairchild structural maintenance fabrication Airmen use metal in the art of maintaining the structural integrity of their canvas -- aircraft."We give direct support to the flightline

  • 'Survivors Speak Out' during breakfast at Scott AFB

    The month of October highlighted many observances, including Breast Cancer Awareness, Domestic Violence Prevention and Red Ribbon Week, which aims to educate families on the dangers of drug use.In an effort to further spread the message of each of these observances, the Integrated Delivery System

  • Teen aviator at Scott AFB has bright future

    Everybody has personal obstacles in life they must overcome. For a 16-year-old boy from Scott Air Force Base born with cerebral palsy, his obstacles started at birth. Tyrell Rhodes was always told that he wouldn't be able do things that most others did. Fortunately, his mother kept telling him that

  • Air refuelers having busy year supporting deployed operations

    Through the end of September, Airmen flying tanker aircraft in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility off-loaded more than 784 million pounds of fuel to more than 61,600 U.S. and coalition aircraft supporting deployed operations in 2010.Those numbers, compiled by air mobility planners at

  • OEF anniversary: Deployed tanker pilots discuss supporting Afghanistan ops

    In the past nine years, Air Mobility Command statistics show AMC tankers have off-loaded more than 12.2 billion pounds of fuel to aircraft for worldwide military operations, including Operation Enduring Freedom. Since OEF began on Oct. 7, 2001, AMC Airmen from the active duty, Air National Guard and