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  • 15 months, 22 million pounds of cargo later Dover receives 13th C-17

    Dover Air Force Base was once the home to 28 C-5 Galaxy aircraft, the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory. Then on June 4, 2007, the 436th and 512th Airlift Wings received their first C-17 Globemaster III, a smaller bird than the massive C-5, but it was the newest airlifter the Air Force

  • Expeditionary Center lieutenant earns Bronze Star

    For most of 2007, 1st Lt. Eric Snelgrove was deployed to Iraq, but not just any part of Iraq. He was in northern Iraq as the fusion cell officer in charge at a U.S. Army forward operating base. His work there with special forces was significant and the Army noticed by awarding him the Bronze Star.

  • AMC assumes operational control of Little Rock AFB

    Air Mobility Command accepts operational control of Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., Oct. 1, marking the end of a series of realignment actions at the base from the latest round of Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations. Numerous aircraft and unit realignments at Little Rock

  • Charleston Airmen accept Verne Orr Award

    Charleston Air Force Base members accepted the Verne Orr Award during the Air Force Association's 24th Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15."Our people are the best in working together to get the job done and that's exactly what the Verne Orr Award

  • SFS Airman putts onto Team U.S.A.

    Athletes understand the feeling you get when there is two outs, in the bottom of the 9th and you're up by 8, with no runners on base; or the feeling when it's the two minute warning, in the 4th quarter and you're up by 21.Airman 1st Class John Little, 6th Security Forces Squadron, knows that feeling

  • McGuire family member makes history

    Kasen Warrick is his name; tee ball is his game. He's only 6 years old, but little Kasen has made history. Handpicked by McGuire's Youth Center staff, Kasen recently took a trip to the White House for a game of tee ball with the president of the United States. President George Bush and first lady

  • Expeditionary Skills Summit aims to streamline training for Airmen

    The evolving Global War on Terrorism has made Col. Jenny Pickett's personal mission of "keeping Airmen alive" more challenging these days. The commandant of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Operations School, which trains Airmen for deployment, says inconsistencies in where and how troops gain

  • Making a difference: McGuire Airman makes the most of time in Afghanistan

    Shock -- it's what Senior Airman Felicita Torres-Perkins said she felt more than once after volunteering for a deployment to Zabul Province in Southeast Afghanistan. She left behind her duties as an aerospace medical service journeyman with the 305th Medical Group Ambulance Services to join the

  • McChord delivers Airmen, supplies to New Orleans

    A C-17 Globemaster III from the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., provided rapid deployment of a four-man team and 15,500 lbs of cargo from the 615th Contingency Response Wing at Travis AFB, Calif., into New Orleans International Airport Saturday in preparation for Hurricane Gustav.