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NEWS

  • Local boy becomes 'Pilot for a Day' at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

    A 9-year-old boy got off an aircraft simulator and said, "I hope I'll remember this for the rest of my life."That boy from Grayland, Wash., is battling cystic fibrosis and recently had an opportunity to sport a flight suit and step into the shoes of an Airman when he visited Joint Base Lewis-McChord

  • New commander takes helm at Joint Base Charleston

    Col. Richard McComb took command of the 628th Air Base Wing and Joint Base Charleston during a change of command ceremony here July 14. McComb was previously the Chief, Security Forces Division, Directorate of Installations and Mission Support at Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB, Ill.

  • Scott AFB Airmen prepare for international skills competition

    Airmen from Scott Air Force Base will travel to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., (McChord Field) to compete in the 2011 Air Mobility Rodeo competition July 24-29.Sponsored by Air Mobility Command, the event focuses on building international partnerships through competition. It features events

  • President Obama awards Medal of Honor to Army Ranger

    President Barack Obama awarded the country's highest military honor July 12 to Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry, an Army Ranger who was shot in both legs and had his hand blown off while saving his fellow Soldiers during a firefight in Afghanistan.Petry became only the second living veteran of the wars

  • C-17 crews first to use new in-flight program to save fuel

    This summer, C-17 crews will start saving more gas by using Mission Index Flying -- a new program that allows them to adjust their flight profile in real-time in order to maximize fuel efficiency while meeting mission objectives. The mobility air force enterprise expects to see a 1.25 to 1.5 percent

  • Contingency response team stands down from last shuttle support alert

    An audience of millions watched the last launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. For the nearly 650 mobility Airmen of the 621st Contingency Response Wing here, they saw a different finale -- an end to years of waiting for a call they thankfully never received. During every one of the 135 shuttle

  • Joint exercise hones 615th CRW capabilities for real-world missions

    Soldiers and Airmen teamed up in a simulated deployed environment at Mackall Army Airfield approximately ten miles south of Pinehurst, N.C., in support of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division's joint operational access exercise from June 23 to 27. More than 100 Airmen from the 615th Contingency

  • JB MDL security forces members to participate in remembrance march

    As a memorial to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Air Force security forces members will participate in the Ruck March to Remember from July 12 to Sept. 11.Security forces members from 23 units will march 2,181 miles from the Air Force Security Forces Center in San Antonio to Ground Zero in New York

  • Team McChord Airmen recall support for Antarctic aeromedical mission

    Stepping into action after short notice, Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, alongside Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Kadena Air Base aeromedical evacuation and Critical Care Air Transport Team Airmen, successfully landed during the first ever C-17 Globemaster III mid-winter Antarctic

  • Youth learn about Air Force during seminar at Scott AFB

    More than 30 volunteers from across the base teamed up with the Scott Air Force Base Lewis Lynch Tuskegee Airmen Chapter to host a youth seminar the weekend of June 24 to 26 during which youth learned about aviation and even met an original Tuskegee Airman.The chapter welcomed 21 students from