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  • Travis maintainers win 2006 Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award

    Team Travis received exciting news when they were notified that two of the seven 2006 Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award winners were from here. Capt. Timothy Smith, 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron operations officer and Mr. Robert Gentili, 60th AMXS Aircraft Pneudraulic Systems

  • Afghan Ambassador thanks Fairchild Airmen for service to his country

    American military actions in Afghanistan are making progress toward ending tyranny and oppression in that country, said Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, Said Jawad, in a speech here March 1. The ambassador visited Spokane this week at the invitation of the World Affairs Council of

  • RAF, USAF team up to fortify Royal Air Fleet

    The 436th Aerial Port Squadron and Air Mobility Command Museum teamed up with Royal Air Force St. Athan's Aircraft Recovery Transportation Flight to prepare, load and airlift a set of RAF C-130 wings here Feb. 23. The wings were transported aboard an Air Force C-5 to the United Kingdom and will be

  • Brig. Gen. Lessel kicks off Air Force 60th Anniversary speaker's symposium

    Nearly 60 years ago, Congress enacted the National Security Act of 1947. Under this law a separate entity of the military was formed: the United States Air Force. "Since then we have gone through an abundance of change," said Brig. Gen. Erwin F. "Erv" Lessel, the Air Force Director of Communication

  • Reserve wing welcomes C-40

    The skies above Scott Air Force Base got a new look Monday when the 932nd Airlift Wing welcomed the C-40C to its inventory. The wing, the only Air Force Reserve unit in the state of Illinois with a flying mission, received the first of three brand new aircraft to augment its mission of transporting

  • Medical teams provide priceless gift

    Most people get cards, chocolate and flowers from someone special on Valentine's Day. On this particular day, the treatment, care and attention patients in a C-17 Globemaster III received from a combined aerial medic team far surpassed any typical Feb. 14 gift. The critical care air transport and

  • Combat camera videographer receives Purple Heart

    Within an hour of waking up in the Air Force Theater Hospital on the morning of Feb. 11, Staff Sgt. Kathryn Robinson was presented with the Purple Heart. Sergeant Robinson, a videographer assigned to the 4th Combat Camera Squadron in March Air Reserve Base, Calif. , was shot once in the left forearm

  • DGMC receives top DoD Team Performance Award

    David Grant USAF Medical Center has been honored with the 2006 Team Performance Patient Safety Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in creating a safer patient environment. The award, presented at the 2007 Military Health System conference in Washington, D.C., is the highest honor within

  • Civilian historian deploys to Southwest Asia

    In 2005, the Air Force began transitioning historian positions from active-duty to civilian servicemembers. The transition ends with this fiscal year, and now that the turnover is almost complete, life for those civilian historians is starting to look more "active" than ever. Dennis Pinner, 336th

  • History Channel uses Fairchild KC-135's for "Military Movers II"

    Earplugs were in place, seat buckles were pulled tight and jackets were zipped high as passengers prepared for takeoff on a KC-135 Stratotanker training flight Feb. 8. Accompanying the Stratotanker crew members were a producer, camerawoman and soundman sent by The History Channel to take footage and