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  • 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

  • Gen. Fogleman visits Fairchild, praises AMC

     "The primary purpose of the United States Air Force is to fight and win America's wars." With this statement, Gen. Ronald Fogleman (ret.), former Air Force Chief of Staff, summed up an address on the history of the Air Mobility Command and the Air Force during his meeting with more than 400 Airmen

  • WWII vet awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

    Retired Col. Vincent Fonke, who ended his 30-year career here, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross July 20 for actions he took during World War II while a bomber pilot assigned to the Army Air Corps 91st Bomb Group, 324th Squadron. The Distinguished Flying Cross is awarded for heroism or

  • Air Mobility Rodeo 2007: Security forces Rodeo teams tested by the best

    When it comes to adding realism to Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 security forces tactics competition, the Airmen testing the competitors are among the best the Air Force has to offer. The approximately 30 role players and coordination and support staff for the tactics competition come from all over the