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  • Travis earns DoD environmental restoration award

    Dedication to using green and sustainable remediation technologies and biological processes that breakdown contaminates in groundwater has earned Travis Air Force Base, California, its first Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award for Installations.

  • MacDill host first AF Alpha Warrior event

    MacDill hosted the Air Force’s first stop for the Air Force Alpha Warrior Tour, April 18-19, 2017.The Air Force Services Activity, or AFSVA, partnered with the Alpha Warrior team to continue building Comprehensive Airman Fitness through the newly initiated Air Force Alpha Warrior program. The

  • Guard, Reserve gather for annual aerial firefighting training

    More than 400 personnel of the four units making up the Air Expeditionary Group  arrived here April 19 for a week-long training and certification sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service. Each orange number on the tail represents one of the eight planes on the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System team,

  • Airmen train, advise, assist Iraqi AF on C-130J

    Airmen of the 370th and 770th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadrons play an important role in assisting the Iraqi military by sending critical cargo and forces downrange to support the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. These Airmen are responsible for advising and assisting the Iraqi air

  • Mobility Airmen oversee movement of presidential artifacts

    JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. -- With every inauguration of a new American President, a key but generally unnoticed part of the presidential transition of power process is the movement of the outgoing president’s paper, records and artifacts.  This critical role is part of the Air Force District of

  • Airmen ensure safe, operational airfield at JBLM

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The 62nd Operations Support Squadron airfield management section is the go-to office here in the case of an airfield incursion incident.A runway incursion is considered as any unauthorized presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the safety protected area of a

  • Pope Air Force unit lynchpin to Global Response Force mission

    Pope AAF is the second busiest en-route location in the Air Force and the launching point of the 82nd ABN, America’s Global Response Force. When called up, the base must be able to receive aircraft, then load and deploy Soldiers and their equipment in a very short time with little notice.

  • Scott AFB celebrates ‘Century of Service’

    This year the Air Force celebrates its 70th birthday and the fourth oldest “continuously active duty flying field” in its inventory will celebrate its 100th. Located in the heartland of America, Scott Air Force Base is marking this historic milestone tomorrow with a kickoff celebration that will