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  • Expeditionary Center's 'Spartans' host air advisor TTP conference

    Airmen with expertise in the Air Force's air advisor mission joined forces with the 422nd Joint Tactics Squadron to conduct a tactics, techniques and procedures conference at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center in mid-June.The conference brought subject-matter experts from across the Air Force

  • Scott AFB Honor Guard renders final honors at funerals

    While the notes of "Taps" are heard at many bases daily signifying the end of the day, it is also played during military funerals. The concept of military funerals began during the Napoleonic Wars when the dead were carried from the battlefield covered by a flag. Military funeral honors are now

  • AMC’s manpower, personnel and services announces 2010 award winners

    Air Mobility Command's Manpower, Personnel and Services Directorate, also known as AMC A1, announced Nov. 30 its annual award winners for 2010. In a message from A1 Director, Col. Steven J. Beatty, installation, team, program and individual awards were announced. "I am very proud to announce the Air

  • Air refueling pioneers honored in ceremony at Scott

    The air refueling pioneers responsible for the United States' first air refueling flights in 1923 and 1929 were honored in a ceremony Sept. 23 at Scott AFB's "Walk of Fame" as part of a presentation by the Airlift-Tanker Association Hall of Fame.Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., Air Mobility Command

  • AMC announces annual winners for manpower, personnel, services

    Air Mobility Command's Manpower, Personnel and Services (A1) Directorate announced their annual award winners for fiscal year 2009 on Nov. 24. Col. Lee O. Wyatt, AMC's A1 director, said the winners are "individual and team superstars who provided outstanding personnel (civilian/military), manpower

  • 2007 AMC Mission Support Awards Winners Announced

    Air Mobility Command has announced the winners of the 2007 Mission Support Awards. "I appreciate the significant accomplishments and hard word of each individual and organization, especially given the challenges we've faced in the past year," said Gregg Clark, deputy director of Manpower and

  • Dover reorganizes for C-17 mission

    A ceremony here Feb. 4 marked the end of a 30-year run of Dover AFB's sole C-5 Galaxy mission and the beginning of a new era as the base prepares for the first of 13 C-17 Globemaster IIIs scheduled to arrive this summer. Air Force Reserve Command's 512th Maintenance Group is reorganizing to

  • Enlisted aviator career field puts 'chevrons' in the sky

    Between 1912 and 1942, nearly 3,000 enlisted men of the Signal Corps, Air Service and the Army Air Forces became enlisted pilots. In fact, enlisted men piloted many of the aircraft flown in the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.Although the Flight Officer Act in 1942 ended the enlisted pilot