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  • Grand Forks CGOA recognized as best in Air Force

    The Grand Forks Air Force Base Company Grade Officer Association was announced as the CGO Council of the Year, May 5, during the CGOA Professional Development Conference in San Francisco.The Grand Forks AFB CGOA competed against more than 70 other CGOA councils from around the Air Force to win the

  • Tuskegee Airman receives Purple Heart after 66 years

    Former Tuskegee Airman, Tech. Sgt. (Ret.) George Watson Sr. was awarded the Purple Heart Monday at Tommy B's Community and Activity Center here.Col. Gina Grosso, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst commander, and Congressman Chris Smith presented Watson with the Purple Heart for injuries he sustained

  • Scott firefighter organizes challenge in Haiti

    In a recent Firefighter Challenge in Haiti, Joint Task Force-Haiti servicemembers and Haitian firefighters raced through a firefighting skills course in a morning of tough competition.Two-person teams moved through 10 challenges, which included a ladder climb, simulated litter carry, wood chop and

  • Airmen, Soldiers join on Lakehurst for Eagle Flag exercise

    More than 140 Airmen and Soldiers worked together on a new concept during the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Eagle Flag exercise on Lakehurst April 12. Eagle Flag is the U.S. military's premiere exercise for validating logistics port-opening procedures in an expeditionary environment.The

  • Airmen, families to benefit from more than $430k in YoAFF grant money

    A security forces member takes advantage of CrossFit stations installed around the running trail at his base to help him prepare for his next deployment. Elsewhere, a group of Airmen gather in a comfortable, supportive environment and share tips about what it's like to be single parents. At the same

  • Former 437th AW commander remembered

    Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Mikolajcik, former commander of the 437th Airlift Wing, passed away April 17, 2010, at home in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., at the age of 63 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. General Mikolajcik was commander of the 437th Airlift

  • Base dining transformation underway at four AMC bases

    Would you like to purchase a sub sandwich at a food court near your work place using your meal card? If you are an Airman at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., MacDill AFB, Fla., Little Rock AFB, Ark., or Fairchild AFB, Wash., you may be able to do just that as a pilot program gets underway to transform

  • AMC's ops hub adjusts flights due to volcanic activity

    Air Mobility Command operations in and around Europe have been adjusted as a large cloud of volcanic ash continues to impact flight operations across much of the continent, according to AMC officials.The 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center, AMC's planning and execution hub at Scott Air Force Base,

  • Reservists mobilized to support Afghanistan surge

    More than 1,600 Air Force reservists went on active duty April 5 to support the Afghanistan surge operations.Aircrew members, aircraft maintainers, aerial porters and base operating support forces are among the reservists supporting the movement of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.