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NEWS

  • 16th Airlift Squadron returns home safely

    More than 117 Airmen from the 16th Airlift Squadron returned Monday afternoon from a 123-day deployment to Southwest Asia as part of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and Joint Task Force Horn of Africa. The 16 AS Lions were deployed as the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron from May to

  • Operation Deep Freeze 2007-08 begins

    Operation Deep Freeze 2007-08 winter flights began Aug. 20 ending more than five months of isolation for the research station as the first C-17 Globemaster III delivered passengers and cargo to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.Landing 15 miles from McMurdo Station at Pegasus Runway, the C-17s will carry

  • Team Charleston receives award for helping local school

    Team Charleston's was presented an award by Charleston County Wednesday for stepping up and volunteering more than 500 hours to help the students of a local school improve their basic studies and behavior. During the 2006 school year, Hunley Park Elementary asked the base for volunteers to come help

  • Peru earthquake relief

    Approximately 30 Soldiers and Airmen departed here Aug. 17 in support of relief efforts following the Aug. 15 earthquake near Lima, Peru.The task force, composed of a Mobile Surgery Team, communications specialists and a small security detail, departed the base aboard a C-130J assigned to the

  • Delaware supports Team Dover with military appreciation nights

    The Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball team hosted military appreciation nights and donated tickets to Team Dover for Rocks' games Aug. 10 and Saturday. As part of the military appreciation nights, Col. Randal Bright, 512th Airlift Wing commander and Chief Master Sgt. Bruce Blodgett, 436th

  • Charleston holds exercise similar to Virginia Tech incident

    Charleston AFB held a simulated emergency base-wide exercise Aug. 1, which compared to the Virginia Tech shootings earlier this year. The objective of a base-wide exercise was to test the initial and tactical response of the base in the event of an emergency. "The base as a whole did very well

  • Twin staff sergeants mark Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 as a special event

    For the brothers Staff Sgts. Bryan and Brent Pechanec, participating in Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 together for the first time is something special. Bryan is a C-17 Globemaster III crew chief from the 514th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and Brent is a KC-10 Extender

  • Rodeo 1962 winner comes back to witness evolution of airdrop

    When then-Capt. Joe Lodrige walked into his commander's office, he probably didn't think he'd be asked to learn from scratch how to airdrop cargo in just a few months' time in order to compete in the Military Air Transport Service's first Rodeo airlift competition. The air transport C-124 pilot was

  • Umpires go back to basics for Air Mobility Rodeo 2007

    As smoke and the smell of burning rubber drift off the McChord Air Force Base, Wash., runway, two Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 umpires are in search of the "hot spot," the location where the C-130 Hercules first touched down. They bring along their high-tech equipment; their left hands. Majors Dave