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  • Veteran walks red carpet at World Series

    Watching the playoff is one thing, but earning an invite with red carpet treatment at the World Series is another.Mona Bonick, 375th Air Mobility Wing Exercises and Inspections deputy chief and retired master sergeant, was honored with other service branch representatives at game one in St. Louis,

  • Dover senior airman earns 2011 AMC Icon title

    In Senior Airman Naomi Scott's words, "The third time was the charm." In her third competition, Scott won the 2011 Air Mobility Icon title during competition here Oct. 20.Singing Adele's "Rolling in Deep," Scott wooed the competition's three judges to top a field of 10 competitors to become this

  • 2011 AMC Icon final competition set

    The 2011 edition of the Air Mobility Command "Icon" competition is set for Oct. 20 at the Scott Club here for 10 competitors from across AMC.Based loosely on the television show "American Idol," AMC Icon is an AMC commander's initiative to showcase the vocal talents of AMC Airmen. Each AMC base

  • AMC Chief Scientist: Alternative fuels can be the ‘cleaner jet fuel’

    Just as the character "Doc" in the "Back to the Future" movie loaded the flux-capacitor of the time-travel modified 1975 DeLorean with a banana peel and trash from Marty McFly's garbage can, Air Force scientists are looking for the next readily available, renewable clean-burning aircraft fuel.Air

  • Travis AFB hosts Tuskegee Airmen for annual ball

    The Lee A. Archer, Jr. Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. at Travis AFB will host the annual Tuskegee Airmen Fall Ball at the Delta Breeze Club on Oct. 22. The theme of this year's ball is "70 Years of Aviation Excellence -- Then, Now, The Future." The guest speaker will be Dr. Milton Chen, noted

  • Scott AFB officer reflects on winning Air Force Marathon female division

    In a first-ever win, 28-year-old Capt. Sarah Thomas, a family medicine resident from the 375th Medical Group here, crossed the Air Force Marathon's 26.2 mile finish line in 2:58:51, placing 19th overall among 13,000 runners."I have always been a runner, and I just love to run," said the former track

  • Travis hospital rates high in inspection

    A Health Services Inspection conducted by the Headquarters Air Force Inspection Agency, Directorate of Medical Operations has left the medical staff at David Grant Medical Center in high spirits. In addition to successfully passing a no-notice inspection, the 60th Medical Group also received full

  • McConnell medical professionals make suicide prevention effort

    In 2010, 98 U.S. Air Force personnel completed suicide -- the highest suicide rate since current tracking methods began in 2004.The 22nd Medical Group Mental Health clinic goal is to save lives and combat those statistics Aug. 25 and 26, 2011, by hosting a briefing titled "Suicide Prevention: