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  • When tour guides become tourists

    A group of volunteers, used to teaching the air mobility mission, were recently given the opportunity to learn about advancements in Team Dover's largest aircraft.A group of 16 volunteers from the Air Mobility Command Museum toured a static C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter with 9th Airlift Squadron crew

  • Son following in his father's footsteps

    Some reasons people join the military are to serve their country, make a difference, earn educational benefits, and because it's a family tradition.For Senior Airman Christopher Balderas that family tradition began with his father's nine-year service in the Army as a Military Policeman.His father,

  • Cadets get a feel for operational Air Force at Scott

    United States Air Force Academy and ROTC cadets got a taste of what it's going to be like in the operational Air Force June 2-17 at Scott.The Air Force Operations Program is for cadets to get exposure to a real-world Air Force base environment while letting them see how base components work together

  • Royal Canadian Air Cadets tour USAF base

    Royal Canadian Air Cadets from the 232nd (Bighorn), 531st (City of Trail) and 841st (Boundary) Squadrons in British Columbia, Canada, toured Fairchild AFB June 5.The tour, facilitated in part by the Embassy of Canada in the District of Columbia, began with a mission briefing from Col. Brian

  • MacDill Airmen assist B-2 crew

    Four air traffic controllers and 14 firefighters assigned to the 6th Air Mobility Wing assisted the crew of a B-2 Spirit bomber during an emergency landing on MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, April 23, 2015.It was roughly 8 p.m. when Airmen in MacDill's air traffic control tower received a message

  • Air Force marine patrol prevents suicidal drowning

    "Gearing up for work every day, we prepare for any number of different scenarios. We prepare ourselves physically and mentally to handle whatever we could encounter that day. We'd like to believe, here in the marine patrol, that we're ready for anything," explained Senior Airman Cale Schumacher, 6th

  • 17th Airlift Squadron; A look back: 17 AS crew gets top honors at Air Tattoo

    Editor's Note: As the 437th Airlift Wing gears up to inactivate the 17th Airlift Squadron, we hope you enjoy the walk down memory lane with us as we reprint stories that highlight the achievements of the Air Force's first operational C-17 squadron. This week's article was first printed in the August

  • 22nd SFS assist local law enforcement, finds missing autistic teenager

    Around 9:30 p.m. on May 28, 2015, a Haysville, Kansas, youth group was ending its weekly meeting.All week long, thunderstorms and heavy bouts of rain had made an almost nightly appearance over Kansas.Gabrielle "Nikki" Stoll, a 13-year-old autistic teenager was playing outside with her parents. When

  • Leadership stresses care in Travis visit

    Lt. Gen. Carlton Everhart II, 18th Air Force commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Rob Rodewald, 18th AF command chief, stressed the importance of Airmen taking care of themselves and their families June 1 to 3 during a visit to Travis Air Force Base, California.The 18th AF is the operational arm of Air

  • Forging new international partnerships

    Contingency training with coalition partners is nothing new to Little Rock Air Force Base Airmen. However, the GREEN FLAG 15-07 exercise that recently took place fostered international partnerships like no other.More than 50 Airmen from across Little Rock AFB participated in the exercise. The