Comprehensive Airman Fitness: Airmen gain new 'home away from home' at Little Rock AFB

The Crossroads Café Airmen's Ministry Center reopened the doors of its new location during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 15 here.The café offers Airmen a place to go to spend time with friends during their down time."The Crossroads Café offers a relaxing positive alcohol-free and smoke-free

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

Air refuelers having busy year supporting deployed operations

Through the end of September, Airmen flying tanker aircraft in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility off-loaded more than 784 million pounds of fuel to more than 61,600 U.S. and coalition aircraft supporting deployed operations in 2010.Those numbers, compiled by air mobility planners at

McChord Airman's tearful homecoming surprise

October 5 was a normal school day for 12-year-old Paxton Baker, until she got called into the principal's office.With her head down, Paxton slowly walked down the hall to the principal's office. She opened the door to find her father, Tech. Sgt. Raymond Ibay, 627th Air Base Group vehicle maintenance

CRE Airmen in Pakistan relate 2005 earthquake to 2010 flood operations

Approximately five years ago, more than 60 Airmen from the 818th Contingency Response Group, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., were notified to pack their bags and deploy to Pakistan to support relief efforts after a tremendous 7.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 80,000 people dead and

Expeditionary Center launches 'Ground Up Challenge'

Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center can expect to become more intimately familiar with "the ground" than they were expecting if they happen to be on the campus at 8 a.m., 11 a.m. or 4 p.m. respectively.At those designated times, all military members within the Center, student or

Military leadership showcased to Grand Forks community