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  • LINE self defense course kicks way into ACST training

    Traditional thinking of Air Force pre-deployment preparation may have Airmen reading the Airman's Manual from front to back and getting in some form of combat skills training at home station. Would that same effort include learning about the Linear Infighting Neural-override Engagement, or LINE,

  • Iraqi air force capabilities continue to increase

    The capabilities of the Iraqi air force continue to grow as they performed their first double patient transfer May 8 here. Two months the Iraqi air force conducted its first aeromedical transfer, a policeman transported from the American 28th Combat Support Hospital to an Iraqi treatment facility,

  • International flight surgeons train in critical care

    International flight surgeons from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine partnered with the Critical Care Air Transport Team course in May to gain experience not otherwise available. The flight surgeons are a part of the Advanced Aerospace Medicine for International Medical Officers

  • AFSO 21 improves Total Force processes

    No doubt, almost everyone has heard about Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century by now and its philosophy for leaning out processes and getting rid of time-consuming portions. Just in case you've been under a rock or in hiding, AFSO 21 is a new program initiated by the secretary of the Air

  • Airlift/Tanker Association hosts mobility forum

    The Golden Bear chapter of the Airlift/Tanker Association hosted a mobility forum at the Base Theater May 11 to give members of Team Travis a chance to spend time with the heroes of air mobility and hear them speak about their career experiences. The theme of the event was "A Day with Our Mobility

  • AF, Army team to resolve information technology issue

    Air Mobility Command contracts with commercial carriers to compliment its organic airlift fleet. As part of the contracting process, AMC communicated with commercial partners by granting them limited access to DoD military networks. As Defense department network security requirements became more and

  • Joint team helps save 2-year-old boy in Pacific

    When Airmen from the 13th Air Force's Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center here received a request in early May from a Saipan pediatrician requesting critical assistance for a 2 year old suffering from pneumonia with subsequent organ system failure, unit members understood time was critical

  • Teen becomes 'Pilot for a Day' at Fairchild

    It isn't every day a 13-year-old boy gets to pilot a KC-135 Stratotanker destined from Washington for Hawaii, but one teen flew the mission May 3 as Fairchild Air Force Airmen helped one local youth become a Pilot for a Day. Dylan Nickerson experienced a day in the life of a pilot with the

  • Team Dover welcomes new commander

    With a brisk salute and four words, "Sir, I assume command," Col. Steven Harrison took command of the 436th Airlift Wing from Col. Sam Cox in a change-of-command ceremony here Tuesday. Colonel Harrison joins Team Dover after serving as the vice commander of the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air