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  • Felts Field open house displays AMC lineage

    The Experimental Aviation Association shared a piece of Air Mobility Command history with the local community during Felts Field's first open house June 4 when one of 12 flight-capable B-17 Flying Fortresses rumbled through the sky and landed for tours for aviation enthusiasts' and two World

  • Scott Airman earns Bronze Star

    On May 23 Staff Sgt. Nathanael Lindsay was presented a Bronze Star Medal during the 375th Air Mobility Wing commander's call for his actions as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader while deployed with the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq in support of

  • Special duty view: Ceremonial guardsmen at Dover AFB

    In order to fill its unique mission requirements, the Air Force employs servicemembers in specialized positions to perform a specific duty. These special duties allow Airmen to step outside their conventional role and experience a completely new side of the Air Force. One such position is the

  • Students make quilts for Japan at Travis AFB

    Emotions were high as people across the world tuned in to their televisions March 11 to see images of a devastating tsunami sweeping over the landscape of Japan's coast. The tsunami, a result of a massive earthquake, caused lost lives and displaced families. Travis became the entry point for more

  • Air Force cops maintaining law and order in Kabul, Afghanistan

    Since arriving in Afghanistan in March 2011, the 20 members of the Air Force's security forces have remained quite busy here. They are a part of the joint expeditionary tasking of maintaining law and order for all four U.S. military services and more than 30 North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • Joint MDL's Police Week observance goes off with bang

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst security forces celebrated National Police Week May 16 through 20 here, in honor of fallen military and civilian police officers.National Police Week started in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation designating May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial

  • Parade of Wreaths ceremony honors, remembers fallen servicemembers

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, the Thomas B. McGuire Foundation and the New Jersey State Police commemorated Memorial Day with the 28th annual Parade of Wreaths ceremony here Wednesday at Pudgy Circle.Maj. Gen. William D. Razz Waff, 99th Regional Support Command commander, and Lt. Col. Thomas

  • SERE training at MacDill provides skills to survive

    In the military, training can teach most things, but it can't teach the will to survive. That is something contained deep inside, says Staff Sgt. Patrick Ray, the non-commissioned officer who heads up Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape training at MacDill Air Force Base.SERE is essential

  • AF shooters, training changing notions about military marksmanship

    When military marksmanship is the topic, Marines and Soldier slinging battle rifles may come to mind, but overlooking the shooting skills of today's Airman is a sure sign of being behind the times.Not only are shooting skills an integral part of an Airman's training, Air Force training can be more