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NEWS

  • Adventure in Alaska: Officer looks to mush dogs in Iditarod

    Snow and trees are all that can be seen for miles. The bitter cold nips at any piece of exposed skin. He can almost taste the frost touching his warm breath as he yells "mush," commanding his 16 dogs to trudge across the vast landscape and breaking the deafening silence of his surroundings.Maj.

  • MacDill Airman renders first-aid, saves Canadian father of four

    During a night drive with his family, Master Sgt. Terry Willis witnessed a truck run over a man crossing the street with his family at an intersection in Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 2, 2015.What turned from a night of holiday fun with his family, quickly turned into a split-second decision for

  • Saying thank you by feeding the troops

    Years ago, what started out as one family putting out a couple of extra dinner plates for a few friends during the holidays has turned into something bigger and rewarding for one individual with ties to the military and Dover Air Force Base.The 10th annual Feed the Troops, held Dec. 23, 2014, here,

  • USAF EC holds Wingman Day Event

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center paused Dec. 16, for a Wingman Day Event to allow staff members time to focus on building relationships and increasing awareness regarding issues facing Airmen."Every day is Wingman Day for us here at the EC," said Master Sgt. Osvaldo Freyre, USAF EC Director

  • Air Force Surgeon General visits Scott AFB

    Lt. Gen. Thomas Travis, Air Force Surgeon General, visited Scott Air Force Base for the first time Dec. 8-10. Travis along with Chief Master Sgt. Jason Pace, Chief of the Medical Enlisted Force, met with members of the 375th Medical Group for an inside view of how they support the mission at

  • Dover puts the M in retrograde

    Keeping the gigantic C-5M Super Galaxy mission going at home station is challenging, and for Dover's deployed C-5Ms supporting the Afghanistan retrograde mission, there were some unique challenges for the deployed C-5M maintainers. Beginning in August, a 10-person C-5M maintenance team from the

  • Congressional Gold Medal honors Civil Air Patrol’s World War II service

    Forty-six founding Civil Air Patrol members were in Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2014, to see the organization honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for the service they and more than 200,000 other CAP volunteers provided during World War II, when they helped protect U.S. shipping against German

  • 436th SFS reins in three AMC awards

    The 436th Security Force Squadron is no stranger to winning awards and 2014 was another year in which the squadron was recognized. Three individual Air Mobility Command level awards were hauled in by three of Team Dover's defenders.The 436th SFS Airmen went up against 14 other AMC bases and won