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  • 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

  • Innovation vs. Invention

    This past October marked our twelfth year of sustained combat operations in Afghanistan. During more than a decade of war, you've proven you are part of the best trained and equipped Air Force the world has ever known. You've attained that distinction by doing things right. Doing things right

  • Ground broken on second Fisher House

    More than 200 invited guests, Solano County dignitaries, Travis base leadership, news media, radio personalities and friends of the Travis Fisher House gathered Wednesday to witness history repeat itself. For the second time in two decades, ceremonial shovels dug into the ground to mark the breaking

  • Innovation streamlines AMC requirements process

    Air Mobility Command officials recently introduced an innovative tool that is transforming the command's process for gathering and prioritizing Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) requirements, and will soon be expanded to include other requirements.The Enterprise

  • The first C-5A Galaxy returns to Dover AFB to rest

    The Air Mobility Command museum unveiled the newest edition to its aircraft collection Nov. 9, 2013 here.The C-5A Galaxy was delivered to Dover AFB in 1971, which makes it Dover AFB's longest serving aircraft type and now the first aircraft of its kind to be in a museum. "It was the very first C-5