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  • Airmen represent Team McChord with honor

    Six Airmen stand in position as a hearse rolls to a stop just past them. They open the back door revealing a casket with the U.S. flag draped over it. They carefully carry out the casket before placing it on the lowering device, its final resting place. They methodically remove the flag from the

  • McConnell Airman nominated for Robbie Risner Award

    After surpassing both the wing and Air Mobility Command levels, McConnell's Maj. Derrick Baker, 22nd Operations Support Squadron wing tactics officer, is now in the running to receive the Air Force 2013 Robbie Risner Award.The award is named after Brig. General Robinson "Robbie" Risner, a highly

  • Scott couple find work/life balance singing with choir

    Finding the time to balance work and your personal interests is a must when it comes to being a comprehensively fit Airman.  And for one couple, they do that through music.Lt. Col. Christine Blice-Baum, 375 Air Mobility Wing Chaplain, and her husband, Mark Blice-Baum, 375th Force Support Squadron

  • MyMC2 app provides easy access to base events list

    Team Scott members can get updated information on events happening across Scott Air Force Base with a touch of a fingertip when using the MyMC2 application.It's called "My Military Communities," or MyMC2, and is the Air Force's mobile application that gives easy access to what is happening around

  • 16 pound burden

    Tech. Sgt. Jason Caswell, a 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, loves spending time with his wife and kids as well as playing rugby.At age 28, Caswell was an athlete who was well on his way to becoming an Air Force rugby player. From there, his dream was to take the next step of joining

  • Dyess Airmen deploy in support of OUA

    More than 35 Airmen and two C-130Js from the 317th Airlift Group and 7th Bomb Wing deployed Oct. 29, 2014, to an air base in Western Europe, where they will provide tactical airlift support for Operation United Assistance.During their deployment, Dyess Airmen will be tasked with moving supplies,

  • UPAR--Assisting eyes and ears

    As a member of public affairs, we strive to be in every place, documenting every event at once; but with manning limitations, it just isn't physically possible...Until now.This October, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, kicked off its Unit Public Affairs Representative program. The program allows a

  • Scott members provide vision on humanitarian mission

    For more than two years the Scott Optometry Clinic has collected used glasses and 700 pairs made their way to Guatemala this past Spring as part of a humanitarian mission called "Beyond the Horizon."Not only did Capt. Eric Owens and Tech. Sgt. Latoya Cason bring the glasses, but this optometrist and

  • Mobility teamwork keys retrograde mission.

    As the United States and its Coalition partners reduce their presence in Afghanistan, there has been a robust retrograde mission to ensure that as much equipment and materials that supported the warfighters there are recovered. Team Dover C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft and Airman from both the 436th and

  • Travis Airman sings at the World Series

    It was a gorgeous fall evening Sunday in San Francisco when a stadium full of 40,000 excited baseball fans paused to honor our nation during the seventh-inning stretch of Game Five in the 2014 World Series.Airman 1st Class Michelle Doolittle, United States Air Force Band of the Golden West vocalist,