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  • Mutual-aid HAZMAT exercise strengthens response capabilities

    Team Fairchild hosted it's first-ever mutual-aid hazardous materials emergency response training exercise with members of the Spokane, Wash. emergency responders here, Dec. 8-11.Agencies involved include Spokane City Fire Department, Kootenai County emergency management, Spokane City EM, a 92nd

  • More winter, snow problems

    Even when the weather is unbearable to some, McConnell Airmen must still get the KC-135R Stratotankers ready to fly.The 22nd Maintenance Squadron and 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron both have a specialized group of Airmen whose primary duty is to take care of the aircraft and the runways when we

  • AMC chief scientist receives Harold Brown Award

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James presented Dr. Donald Erbschloe, the Air Mobility Command chief scientist, with the 2014 Harold Brown Award during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Dec. 9.The award, established in December of 1968 as a tribute to Dr. Harold Brown who was the eighth SecAF and

  • McConnell Airman selected to KC-46 test crew

    One McConnell Airman was selected, alongside forty-one total force Airmen, to be part of the KC-46A Pegasus initial operational test and evaluation aircrew.Staff Sgt. Jason Coffey, 22nd Operations Group standards and evaluation boom operator, became the first and only active-duty McConnell Airman to

  • Congressional Gold Medal honors Civil Air Patrol’s World War II service

    Forty-six founding Civil Air Patrol members were in Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2014, to see the organization honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for the service they and more than 200,000 other CAP volunteers provided during World War II, when they helped protect U.S. shipping against German

  • Tool to safeguard PII scheduled for December rollout AF wide

    The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool is scheduled for Air Force-wide integration Dec. 5, providing Microsoft Outlook email users with an interactive, automated virtual assistant to help ensure the security of personally identifiable information."I can't overstate the operational importance of

  • AMC Command Chief visits Team Dover

    Team Dover hosted Chief Master Sgt. Victoria Gamble, command chief of Air Mobility Command, Dec. 3 - 4, 2014, to visit the Airmen and the facilities that support AMC's mission to provide global air mobility... right effects, right place, right time."I'm certainly glad to be here at Team Dover," said

  • McChord aircrews put air power on display during JFE

    Aircrews from Joint Bases Lewis-McChord, Pearl Harbor-Hickam, and Elmendorf-Richardson departed from McChord Field, Wash., in five C-17 Globemaster III aircraft Dec. 6, to participate in realistic and complex training the Air Force has to offer during a joint forcible entry exercise over the Keno

  • Fire truck MX shop finds a $2 solution to a $3,000 problem

    A brand new circuit board for a McChord Field Airport Rescue Fire Fighting truck costs more than $3,000 to replace, regardless of why it has malfunctioned. When McChord Field fire truck maintainers were faced with replacing one of their own, they dug a little deeper into the issue and discovered a

  • 436th SFS reins in three AMC awards

    The 436th Security Force Squadron is no stranger to winning awards and 2014 was another year in which the squadron was recognized. Three individual Air Mobility Command level awards were hauled in by three of Team Dover's defenders.The 436th SFS Airmen went up against 14 other AMC bases and won