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  • Think BEFORE You Drink!

    According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, most Americans--97 percent--say that impaired driving is a threat to their community. Think about that ... 97 percent is an overwhelming majority! Yet about 40 percent of all vehicle crash deaths involve alcohol. So how is it that most

  • What Do Ground Safety Managers DO?

    What is a normal workday for a Ground Safety Manager (GSM)? First, if one spent any time in the safety realm, it is apparent that the word "normal" does not coincide with the happenings of a day. Second, if you contact 20 different GSMs on any given day and ask what they did on that particular day,

  • B-r-r-ing on the Winter Weather!

    Year after year, right on fall's heels, winter makes its appearance. Your location determines, to a large extent, what winter looks like to you. Here in southwest Ohio, it gets cold first, and the snow and ice comes later. Some winters are much worse than others are, but we can almost always count

  • Spotlight Award: KC-135R Aircrew

    While deployed for the 906th Air Refueling Squadron in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM and peacekeeping mission over Iraq, Capt Todd Walker, Capt Christopher Miller, and SSgt Jarrett Crawford from 375 Air Mobility Wing, Scott AFB who were associated with 126 Air Refueling Wing, Scott AFB,

  • Airman to Airman - SSgt Chambers Owes His Life to a Great Wingman

    As an avid snowboarder, SSgt John Chambers looked forward to a TDY to Travis AFB and a chance for some time on the prime slopes at the resorts nearby. But while snowboarding on a crisp January day in 2013, his plans quickly veered off course and out of control before he knew what hit him.Arriving at

  • Ice, Ice, Baby!

    The holidays will be here before we know it, and with them comes Old Man Winter, bringing along his whipping winds, blowing snow, and freezing ice. All of these things mean changes in the way we do business, both in our day-to-day lives and as flyers.Some things never change, and Mother Nature is

  • McConnell Firefighters Gain Accreditation

    Fire and Emergency Services Flight earned its accreditation on August 13, 2014, from the Commission on Fire Accreditation International.The unit is the only accredited fire department within Air Mobility Command and is one of 13 accredited units Air Force-wide."This [accreditation] validates our

  • Instructors visit Scott to host course on aerial port operations

    For more than eight hours a day, three instructors from the 423rd Mobility Training Squadron based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, taught the Management of Aerial Port Operations Course here, Nov. 3-14.An aerial port is the area where cargo or passengers are loaded or unloaded from

  • Not wearing his seatbelt? How could that be?

    I am a mom. I love the Air Force and I have a great job, but the best part of my life is being a mom. I'm a mom eight times over: five stepchildren (two from my first marriage) and three biological children.I became a stepmom to Christopher and April when I married their father in 1984. Christopher