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  • AMC names male, female athletes of the year

    Air Mobility Command announced today that Chief Master Sgt. Tami Spellman (female athlete) and Senior Airman Nadar Maghribi (male athlete) have been selected as the command's nominees for the 2010 Air Force Athlete of the Year award.Chief Spellman is assigned to the 375th Security Forces Squadron at

  • U.S. military airlift legend visits 379th AEW

    Members of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing here were treated to a sweet visit by an iconic figure in Air Force history Oct. 20-21.Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen, best known as "The Candy Bomber" for his role in dropping candy from his aircraft to children during the Berlin Airlift, visited with

  • 615th CRW aids largest movement of paratroopers in decades

    Civilian passengers catching connecting flights in and out of the Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana couldn't help but notice a massive formation of military cargo aircraft sharing their airspace. Beginning at dusk, nearly 30 cargo aircraft descended on the airport Oct. 18 as part of a

  • Expeditionary Center Airmen honor Air Force's first female chief

    Every Airman should know the name Grace A. Peterson. Nearly every Professional Military Education course in the Air Force mentions her as the first woman to ever hold the rank of chief master sergeant.For the 200 people in attendance at the Expeditionary Center Oct. 18, the first woman to be

  • Spouses get the 411 during orientation day

    The airlift squadrons of the 437th Operations Group at Joint Base Chalrehosted a spouse's orientation day, allowing military spouses an inside look at the daily operations at what his or her spouse does for the U.S. Air Force.The orientation is a way to familiarize military spouses with their

  • 21 Little Rock C-130s take part in joint exercise

    A large-scale formation of 26 C-130 Hercules aircraft, including 21 from Little Rock Air Force Base, took off from the base Oct. 18 to take part in a Joint Readiness Training Center exercise. As part of the Army exercise, the 26 C-130s flew to Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria, La., to

  • JET Airmen: 'Fit to fight any given day'

    Airmen often have a reputation of being "behind the scenes," never in the action, but persona is changing with Air Force's heavy involvement in joint tasking operations where Airmen are performing non-traditional jobs and missions alongside sister service members.There are many Joint Expeditionary

  • DGMC surgical team successfully completes hospital's first open heart case

    What had been a dream for decades finally became reality at David Grant USAF Medical Center.After years of planning, months of construction, weeks of training and countless hours in preparation, history was made Oct. 8 in the midst of 18 regularly-scheduled cases conducted in one of the hospital's