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  • National outreach tour educates top medical civic leaders

    Some of the nation's leading health care professionals recently got a close-up look at one of the most vital missions in the Air Force - health care for the wounded. The tour, sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force's National Civic Outreach office, brought representatives from national medical

  • 2007 AMC Mission Support Awards Winners Announced

    Air Mobility Command has announced the winners of the 2007 Mission Support Awards. "I appreciate the significant accomplishments and hard word of each individual and organization, especially given the challenges we've faced in the past year," said Gregg Clark, deputy director of Manpower and

  • CMSAF focuses on Airmen development

    The Air Force's top enlisted leader emphasized the importance of each Airman's contributions, as well as their responsibilities in the development of their Airmen and their own careers during an enlisted call at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Jan. 18. Echoing the sentiments of the three Air Force

  • C-17 pilot auditions for 'American Idol'

    A C-17 Globemaster III pilot with the 317th Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base recently lived out one of her dreams -- to audition for "American Idol." Capt. Lyndsey Goodman, a Reserve pilot who has flown the half-million pound airlifter into combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, also

  • McConnell Airmen's actions in Iraq earn him Bronze Star

    Second Lt. Jack D. McGonegal, 23, 22nd Security Forces Squadron, was awarded a Bronze Star medal, Nov. 29, during a ceremony here for his leadership actions while deployed. While on deployment from November 2006 through August 2007, at Camp Bucca, Iraq with the 886th Expeditionary Security Forces

  • Pope Airman wins Sijan award

    A Pope Airman has been awarded the 2007 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award for distinguished leadership. Capt. Stewart Parker, 21st Special Tactics Squadron, was named the junior officer category winner for the coveted award. Captain Parker led a team of combat controllers into combat in Iraq

  • Emergency airdrop rescues stranded ship

    Teamwork, flexibility and airpower were used to deliver critical repair parts to a stranded British fishing vessel, the Argos Georgia, and its 25-person crew Jan. 4. The vessel had lost all main power and been frozen in the ice flow off the Ross Ice Shelf since Christmas Eve, New Zealand time.

  • C-17 uses synthetic fuel blend on transcontinental flight

    12/18/2007 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- The Air Force marked the 104th anniversary of powered flight Dec. 17 by completing the first transcontinental flight of an aircraft using a blend of regular aviation and synthetic fuel. A C-17 Globemaster III using the synthetic fuel blend lifted off

  • Senior Airman jumps 'blue to green'

    In the new year Charleston AFB will send one of its own to the Army as the first Airman ever to become a member of the U.S. Army's Parachute Team, the Golden Knights. Senior Airman Michael LaRoche, an aircraft electrical and environmental systems maintainer with the 437th Aircraft Maintenance

  • Dover Airmen awarded combat medals

    Two Dover Airmen received the Air Force Combat Action Medal in a historic ceremony here, Nov. 15. Staff Sgt. Michael Grooms, 436th Security Forces Squadron, and Staff Sgt. Huey Harris III, 436th Services Squadron, distinguished themselves in combat and were Dover's first Airmen presented with the