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  • KC-10 flight engineer reaches 400 combat missions in Southwest Asia

    It took 11 deployments of working on two different airframes and more than 1,900 flying hours to achieve, but Master Sgt. Clifford C. Hughes surpassed more than 400 combat missions as a flight engineer May 21, 2010, at a non-disclosed base here.Sergeant Hughes, a KC-10 Extender instructor flight

  • 375th ASF provides medical care for wounded warriors

    "Prepare to unrack.""Ready.""Unrack.""Prepare to move.""Ready.""Move."Members of the 375th Aeromedical Staging Flight repeated these commands nearly 20 times during the weekend while moving littered patients off of C-17 Globemaster IIIs and into buses that would take them to the ASF at the Scott

  • Youngest C-17 pilot joins 4th Airlft Squadron

    Kaylie Bergen, a 6-year-old from Federal Way, Wash., battling cancer, toured the base Tuesday as this month's participant in the Pilot for a Day Program. The purpose of the program is to give local children with serious illnesses a day completely devoted to them and their interest in aviation. The

  • 305th airpower gets lift with new Globemasters

    The 305th Air Mobility Wing will increase airpower capabilities with the addition of new jets to the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst flightline, the first of which were scheduled to arrive yesterday.Three new C-17 Globemaster III aircraft were assigned to the wing as part of a

  • Six-year-old experiences the excitement of the Air Force

    It was a long-distance flight from a small island over the vast open waters of the Pacific. Any pilot would need to be alert on a mission this important and know that failure isn't an option. If you looked around the dark cockpit of the KC-135, you would see five people all fixated on the view

  • 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