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  • AMC hosts first-ever virtual volunteer victim advocate course

    Scott Air Force Base, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command held its first-ever volunteer virtual victim advocate course at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, Oct. 5-9, 2020. VVAs play a significant role in the success of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention and response program. “Doing this course

  • The ones left behind: Beyond the Blue

    The unexpected loss of an Airman to suicide creates a void that echos far beyond the empty chair at their workstation. The unit’s focus must now shift from preventative efforts to fostering recovery for the ones left behind.

  • Back in the game: An Airman’s tenacity to finish what she started

    A social media notification lit up her phone with a four-year-old memory from when she was in the middle of her first deployment. These are the memories she typically pushes to the back of her mind, but this blatant reminder of the diagnosis that cut her deployment short and got her medically

  • Legacy Tankers keep the fuel flowing

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – There is an adage in the Air Force that illustrates the importance of aerial refueling: “No fuel, no fight.” It is the reason the Air Force maintains hundreds of tanker aircraft, many of which are in the air flying missions around the clock. Those tankers keep

  • AMC STEP promotes Joint Base Charleston EOD Airman

    Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Air Mobility Command commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, AMC command chief, presented Tech. Sgt. Eric Jones, 628th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal craftsman, with his technical sergeant stripe as part of the Stripes for Exceptional

  • MacDill honors Tuskegee Airman as distinguished guest

    The historic Tuskegee Airmen boasted approximately 14,000 African-American service members for the U.S. Army Air Forces during and after World War II – their faithless service garnered more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses and pushed the envelope in integrating the U.S. military.

  • Air Force Pilot Delivers a Smooth Landing for New Daughter

    When United States Air Force Lt. Col. Peter Hince joined the military, nobody ever said anything about delivering babies, but he quickly learned that it was a lot like landing a plane.  Hince, director of operations, 43rd Operations Support Squadron, arrived at Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina in