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  • Maintainer honors the fallen

    During many funerals, the base honor guard performs Taps, a musical piece usually played from a bugle or trumpet, to honor a fallen veteran. Most of the time, the honor guard team will use a bugle with a recording placed inside because finding a live musician with the skill to play is hard to come

  • A day of honoring the fallen

    More than 5,000 men, women, children, veterans and active-duty service members took time out of their hectic holiday schedules, Dec. 14, 2013, to remember the men and women of the U.S. military who won't be sitting around the table with us this holiday season. The morning started off at the Florida

  • AMC assists Central African Republic peacekeeping mission

    The Defense Department sent another Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport jet from Burundi to the Central African Republic today in support of the African Union-led International Support Mission in that beleaguered nation, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, told reporters

  • New year is a perfect time to update contact information, records

    With the new year just around the corner, now is the perfect time for Airmen to double check and, if necessary, update their contact information, secure web account access and emergency records, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The traditional move season is over, so some Airmen may have

  • AMC Airmen participate in 16th Annual Operation Toy Drop

    Air Mobility Command and German Air Force transport aircraft and Airmen participated in the 16th annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop here Dec. 6 through Dec. 7.Seven C-130H Hercules aircraft and Airmen from the 43rd Airlift Group and 440th Airlift Wing, Pope Army Airfield, 910th Airlift

  • 15th AMOS provides typhoon relief

    On Nov. 8, Typhoon Haiyan made land fall in the Tacloban region of the Philippines, bringing with it winds more than 200 mph and tsunami level waves. Eyewitnesses reported the devastation looked as if a F5 tornado tore a path 60 miles wide and left nothing standing. Almost instantaneously U.S.

  • Injured Airman returns to duty

    Staff Sgt. Brian Williams of the 87th Security Forces Squadron has been in the Air Force for 13 years, has deployed six times and served as a military working dog handler here since 2011.He is a Phoenix, Ariz.., native, who enjoys watching his favorite team, the Carolina Panthers play, reading comic

  • Former NATO Allied Air Command Headquarters commander visits Fairchild

    Retired Lt. Gen. Ralph J. Jodice II, former commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Air Command Headquarters at Izmir, Turkey, visited Fairchild Dec. 1-3 to recognize Team Fairchild for their role in the Libyan air operation in 2011.Jodice spoke with Col. Brian Newberry, 92nd Air

  • 436 SFS: Outstanding Airmen

    Air Mobility Command officials announced the 2013 AMC Outstanding Security Forces Individual Award winners Nov. 21, 2013.Four members from the 436th Security Forces Squadron, Craig Gilbert, 436th SFS security specialist; Senior Airman Justin Jarrett, 436th SFS response force leader; Staff Sgt. Ted

  • Air travel becomes easier for service members

    The Transportation Safety Administration is making air travel easier for military members and their families with new updates to their security procedures.The TSA program, called TSA Pre-Check, expedites screening procedures for active-duty, reserve and Coast Guard service members. Once verified as