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  • LA-native to fly C-17 to Dover

    Los Angeles-area native Lt. Col. Charlie Ohliger, 436th Operations Support Squadron operations officer, will pilot the 13th and final C-17 Globemaster III assigned to Dover Air Force Base Oct. 8. Colonel Ohliger will pilot the aircraft alongside Gen. Arthur J. Lichte, Air Mobility Command commander,

  • Charleston becomes first AFB to ship HMEEs

    Charleston Air Force Base began receiving and shipping six new U.S. Army High Mobility Engineer Excavator vehicles to warfighters in Southwest Asia Sept. 29.The HMEEs will be transported to forward deployed locations to assist Soldiers and contractors in hostile environments. The HMEE is a newly

  • Training prepares PRTs to help Afghan people

    Airmen and Soldiers alike sat in a five-man High Mobilty Multi-Wheeled Vehicle waiting patiently for the target to pop up, provoking the gunner to act with nimble hands as he unleashed his weapon on the threatening target. This mixed group of Air Force and Army personnel has been working together

  • AMC vice commander calls Expeditionary Center 'transformational'

    Lt. Gen. Vern "Rusty" Findley marks the passing of time not in hurried minutes or seconds, but in the lingering days of a paper calendar. "Two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine days is a long time," the vice commander of the Air Mobility Command said, counting the number of days since the

  • Stratotanker certified to use synthetic fuel blend

    The final weeks of August were big for the U.S. Air Force synthetic fuel program, according to officials with Air Mobility Command Test and Evaluation directorate here.On Aug. 21, at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., the Air Force began conducting ground and flight tests with the KC-135 Stratotanker

  • SFS Airman putts onto Team U.S.A.

    Athletes understand the feeling you get when there is two outs, in the bottom of the 9th and you're up by 8, with no runners on base; or the feeling when it's the two minute warning, in the 4th quarter and you're up by 21.Airman 1st Class John Little, 6th Security Forces Squadron, knows that feeling

  • Base to save $800,000 by changing light bulbs

    Dover expects to save more than $800,000 a year with a new energy saving initiative called Operation Change Out.The voluntary U.S. Department of Energy program suggests military facilities, like base residential areas, exchange incandescent light bulbs for compact-fluorescent ones."We're

  • McGuire family member makes history

    Kasen Warrick is his name; tee ball is his game. He's only 6 years old, but little Kasen has made history. Handpicked by McGuire's Youth Center staff, Kasen recently took a trip to the White House for a game of tee ball with the president of the United States. President George Bush and first lady