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  • Air Force officer cheers for St. Louis Rams

    As the NFL season heads into the Thanksgiving season, fans of the St. Louis Rams may catch a glimpse of Air Force officer Michelle Kolcun as she cheers for the team from the sidelines.Kolcun, a captain who works for the 375th Medical Group at Scott Air Force Base as a healthcare manager, was

  • Travis, Solano County team up in local exercise

    Travis and Solano County emergency response agencies collaborated in an active-shooter exercise Nov. 14, in which an individual opened fire during a parent's night at the Sierra Vista Elementary School in Vacaville, Calif. The shooter also detonated a device and left a suspicious substance in the

  • Honorary commanders visit Grand Forks

    Grand Forks Air Force Base officials hosted an immersion tour Nov. 19 as part of the base's honorary commanders program, which helps give a military perspective to non-military people helping them gain a better understanding of the "Airman experience." Honorary commanders are civilian leaders from

  • Travis SARC team visits ROTC cadets

    Sexual assault may be the most underreported violent crime in the United States and eliminating sexual assault from the military remains a top priority for Department of Defense leadership. To assist with this priority, the Travis Sexual Assault Response Coordinators educated Air Force ROTC cadets

  • Command takes personal info breaches seriously

    Recently, 42 Air Mobility Command personnel suffered the consequences of incorrectly storing or transmitting personally identifiable information over the Air Force Network."All Airmen are responsible for the safe storage and transmittal of PII," said Gen. Paul Selva, Air Mobility Command commander.

  • Grand Forks Education Center 'best in AMC'

    The 319th Force Support Squadron Education Center has added another notch in its belt of award winnings.Air Mobility Command has bestowed its Nathan Altschuler Award for Outstanding Education and Training Program on the center for the second time since 2010."We deal with [Professional Military

  • Cheating Death: A Story About Second Chances

    May 27, 2012 is a day TSgt Mark Hopkins will never forget--even though it's a day he can barely remember.It was the day he made a choice that drastically altered his life forever, and almost ended it in the process."All I remember is hopping on my motorcycle around noon on my way to hang out with

  • In Praise of War Stories

    Anyone who ever told a flying story started with "There I was ... "You may call them war stories, bar stories, hangar-flying stories, or anything else, but when military personnel with some slack time get together, there is a good chance someone will start telling tales. In the Air Force, these are

  • Wind Turbines and Safety

    While on a recent site visit to investigate the issue of radar returns of wind turbines on radar approach control scopes, we discovered concerns that we had never thought of during our years of operational flying (two of us are pilots). Why had we never been aware of these issues before, and how

  • Airmen return from Brazilian-led CRUZEX exercise

    Airmen and Air National Guardsmen participated in Cruzeiro do Sul, a Brazilian-hosted air force exercise testing air-to-air maneuvers, mission planning, airdrop operations, and search and rescue skills, Nov. 4-15 in Brazil. In all, more than 150 Airmen, six F-16 Fighting Falcons, and a KC-135