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  • Pope contracting NCO leads deployed contingency contracting flight

    In a deployed location, getting items and services a deployed unit needs often means someone has to go out and get it. Most often, that job goes to people like Tech. Sgt. Craig Castleman and his contingency contracting flight with the 380th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron here at a non-disclosed

  • Gen. Johns makes first trip to MacDill as AMC commander

    Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., commander of Air Mobility Command, and his wife, Diana, visited MacDill AFB, Fla. Jan. 5 to 7. Since taking command of AMC Nov. 20, the general has made it his top priority to see the air mobility mission "through the eyes of the Airmen." General Johns' visit to MacDill

  • AMC Commander visits Georgia, Florida wings

    General Raymond E. Johns Jr., commander of Air Mobility Command, visited the 165th Airlift Wing, the 6th Air Mobility Wing and the 927th Air Refueling Wing to continue his efforts to view the air mobility mission "through the eyes of the Airmen."General Johns, who took the seat as AMC commander in

  • Operation Deep Freeze continues

    The 2009-2010 Operation Deep Freeze season is still underway, but the 10th year for C-17 Globemaster III's on "the ice" supporting National Science Foundation research in Antarctica has already been a success."This season is proving to be the busiest on record," said Lt. Col. Robert Wellington, 62nd

  • CRW "Port Dawgs" leave a footprint in Afghanistan

    Twenty-one Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing here recently returned from a 60-day deployment to Afghanistan where they were able to make some major contributions to military operations.Lt. Col. Daniel Krall, commander of the 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron, requested help from

  • General Johns makes first trip to AOR as AMC commander

    General Raymond E. Johns Jr., commander of Air Mobility Command, departed for the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility to visit several AMC en route locations and operations centers Dec. 5 and returned Dec. 14. Since taking the seat of commander of Air Mobility Command Nov. 20, the general

  • Everybody knows that Santa is a Paratrooper

    You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. But on Dec. 6 at Pope, it was not a team of reindeer, but Maj. Jeff Dasher, a navigator in the 95th Airlift Squadron, who guided the mission for the 440th Airlift Wing's C-130 that flew a group of Soldier Santas across the morning sky. One might say

  • Grand Forks transitions from tankers to UAVs

    The primary mission at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., is transitioning from KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft to support for launch, recovery and maintenance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs. The transition will begin with the departure of the base's final KC-135 in December 2010. The new