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  • Airmen honor fallen MIA

    A ceremonial guardsman wearing white gloves raises his hand to render a salute as a white sedan pulls up to the curb. He proceeds to the vehicle where he respectfully retrieves an urn containing the remains of a fellow comrade.The urn holds the remains of Airman 2nd Class Conrad Sprague, which were

  • U.S. Air Force's top enlisted member visits JBLM

    A full season of visits from distinguished visitors from across the Department of Defense, to include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force and the Air Mobility Command commander was capped off when the top enlisted member for the Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force

  • Veteran raises PTSD awareness, encourages Airmen to seek support

    After separating from the Air Force in 2014, Travis Johnson returned to Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, May 6 to brief newly-minted Airmen on his struggle with overcoming obstacles and expectations of coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.With his service dog, Bella, sitting by his side,

  • Team Scott receives new aeromedical training simulator

    The 375th AES held a ribbon cutting ceremony May 6 for a newly built simulator that alleviates training difficulties due to availability-limited airframes.The 375th AES Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) is designed to provide AE crew members a realistically simulated clinical experience to challenge

  • Aeromedical evacuation Airmen train Lebanese Armed Forces

    The Defense Institute for Medical Operations sent a four-person team to Beirut, Lebanon to teach, mentor and learn from the Lebanese Armed Forces about various ways to provide assistance during a humanitarian crisis.Lt. Col. James Baldock, 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Commander, and Capt.

  • McConnell Airman recognized for act of heroism

    A 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief received the Distinguished Individual Safety Award from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing commander, May 6, 2016, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.Staff Sgt. William Womack received the award for potentially saving a man's life, Sept. 15, 2014, after he

  • Airlift squadron's inactivation 'bittersweet'

    For the fifth time in its 76-year history, the 10th Airlift Squadron at McChord Field was inactivated during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, May 6, 2016. The squadron was most recently reactivated at McChord Field back in 2003.This inactivation was due, in part, to a provision of

  • First AFRC tanker goes digital at Tinker

    The 507th Air Refueling Wing here is the first Air Force Reserve Command unit to receive the new KC-135 Block 45 upgrade, an improvement to the flight deck that provides flight crews with an updated autopilot and digital panels that eliminate analog instrument gauges by consolidating the outdated

  • McConnell AFB biologist partners with Boy Scouts

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist assigned to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, partnered with a local Boy Scout troop recently in support of a fish growth and habitat study.  Troop 364 helped Laura Mendenhall, a biologist working with the 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron, fish and set up

  • Mobility Airmen rapidly respond after Ecuador earthquake

    The United States, in coordination with the Ecuadorian government, deployed eight Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing to Ecuador to support ongoing international relief efforts for victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated the South American country April 16, 2016.U.S.