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  • Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 ends with top award going to Travis team

    In a rousing final celebration, Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 awards were announced here today.  The "best of the best" included teams from around the world. Rodeo, hosted by Air Mobility Command, is a readiness competition between U.S. and international mobility air forces. It focuses on improving

  • Twin staff sergeants mark Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 as a special event

    For the brothers Staff Sgts. Bryan and Brent Pechanec, participating in Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 together for the first time is something special. Bryan is a C-17 Globemaster III crew chief from the 514th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and Brent is a KC-10 Extender

  • Rodeo officials announce winners of 37 competitions

    Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 officials announced the winners of 37 awards Thursday. The following awards were presented by Gen. Duncan McNabb, commander, Air Mobility Command, to the winning teams at Rainier Ranch here. Best Operation Support Aircraft-VIP Special Air Mission - 89th Airlift Wing, Andrews

  • Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 officials announce winners of 11 competitions

    Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 officials announced the first 11 winners of more than 60 competitions July 25. The following awards were presented to the winning teams. Best Fit-To-Fight Team- 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash. Best C-5 Preflight Team- 436th Airlift Wing, Dover AFB, Del. Best

  • WWII vet awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

    Retired Col. Vincent Fonke, who ended his 30-year career here, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross July 20 for actions he took during World War II while a bomber pilot assigned to the Army Air Corps 91st Bomb Group, 324th Squadron. The Distinguished Flying Cross is awarded for heroism or

  • Maintainers excel at Rodeo

    Just after the wheels touched down July 21, following a short KC-135 flight from Fairchild Air Force Base to McChord Air Force Base, outside Tacoma, Wash., it was time for Team Fairchild to compete in Rodeo 2007 - Air Mobility Command's premiere readiness competition. Aboard the aircraft was

  • Team Travis trains to save lives

    "One, two, three ... down!" Four members of the 60th Medical Group Critical Care Air Transport Team prepare to lower, secure and stabilize a critically injured patient inside a KC-135 Stratotanker. This was the first training exercise of its kind that the CCATT participated in at Travis, and was an

  • Wranglers rope up hard work for Air Mobiliity Rodeo '07

    For the more than 200 "Wranglers" - the team of Airmen who bear the brunt of the work that goes into Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 - there are no shiny trophies or recognition at the event's closing celebration for a job well done. They're a group of mostly unsung heroes who work long hours at tough jobs,

  • MacDill Rodeo 2007 team ready to defend title

    The aim of Team MacDill's 2005 Air Mobility Rodeo champs is to repeat and bring the 2007 event trophy home. Training and teamwork developed over the last few weeks is what's going to make that possible, said Major Thomas Lee, 6th Air Mobility Wing Operations Group commander and Rodeo 2007 team

  • General McNabb enlists city's future heroes

    For 40 women and men at the Cardinals vs. Giants baseball game July 7, their thoughts may not have been focused on whether Barry Bonds would break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record. Right hands raised, this young group, standing at Busch Stadium home plate in front of a huge crowd, was sworn