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NEWS

  • Aeromedical teams provide care, comfort in the air

    The 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron has not only made it possible for a speedier recovery by picking up injured and sick servicemembers, but are providing the care and comfort needed to put their patients at ease. Each time a crew from the 379th EAES flies on a mission to care

  • Airman earns one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Awards

    It's not every day the average Airman receives a phone call at home from a four-star general, but a Charleston Air Force Base staff sergeant assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron is no average Airman. Staff Sgt. Richard Rose Jr., aerial combat photographer, had just come in from cutting his

  • APS trains hard to earn trophy

    Editor's note: This is the second in a four part series of articles highlighting McChord's Rodeo 2007 competitors. It's been less than 18 months since the bellows of training instructors stopped ringing in his ears, yet Airman 1st Class Shawn Brown already has one trip to Iraq behind him. His

  • Maintenance prepares for Air Mobility Rodeo 2007

    Eighteen Fairchild Airmen are working some major overtime right now, all to show the world they're the best at what they do. Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 is fast approaching and local teams are training at their hardest. The biennial competition, which takes place July 22-28 at McChord Air Force Base,

  • Loading up for Rodeo

    "On your marks, get ready, set ... GO!" With that, four Travis Airmen took off, sprinting toward a C-5 Galaxy with its engines running. The four Airmen, members of the 60th Aerial Port Squadron's Rodeo Team, were practicing a C-5 engine running on/offload, where they must load and unload a C-5 and a

  • Course prepares mobility team leaders in deployment command and control

    Of the 57 in-residence and on-line courses offered in the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Mobility Operations School, one course targets future leaders in mobility command and control. The Mobility Air Forces Mobile Command and Control Leadership Course, offered in four sessions a year with 16

  • 62nd SFS team takes aim for Rodeo 2007

    Editors note: This is the first in a four part series of articles highlighting McChord's Rodeo 2007 competitors. They pound pavement six days a week, often decked out in helmets, body armor and weapons. Sweat, pain and endless training -- that's life as they'll know it for the next five weeks. The

  • Engineers garner DoD award

    Dover Air Force Base was recently named the winner of the 2006 Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron garnered the recognition at Department of Defense level for managing the best Environmental Restoration Program in the DoD. "Earlier this year, Dover

  • Travis major wins AF Band Officer of the Year

    The commander of the USAF Band of the Golden West here recently won the Air Force Band Officer of the Year for 2006. Maj. Richard Mench led a 60-member band who had 425 performances throughout the western United States and recorded a "War of Remembrance" album. "Over my 24-year career, Major Mench