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  • Inter-American SOS candidate applications due in July

    Active duty captains proficient in the Spanish language may be eligible to attend the Inter-American Squadron Officer School at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Air Force Personnel Center officials said. "The ISOS program is designed to develop dynamic Airmen

  • DOD recovers remains of 17 from 1952 aircraft crash in Alaska

    The remains of 17 service members have been recovered from an aircraft that was lost in Alaska more than six decades ago, Pentagon officials announced June 18.On Nov. 22, 1952, a C-124 Globemaster crashed while en route to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, from McChord Air Force Base, Washington,

  • Reserve KC-10 tanker aircrew trains with RAF fighter pilots

    A KC-10A aircrew from the 78th Air Refueling Squadron here refueled several Royal Air Force Typhoon GR4Fs over the North Sea June 6 during an infrequent air refueling training mission.The Typhoons were from the RAF 6 and 1(F) Squadrons, RAF Leuchars, United Kingdom. The training is vitally important

  • Pope Airmen participate in D-Day jump at Fort Bragg

    Forty Airmen from the 18th Air Support Operations Group commemorated the 70th Anniversary of D-Day by parachuting onto Fort Bragg's Normandy Drop Zone from C-130 Hercules aircraft June 6.Tactical Air Control Party and Battlefield Weather Airmen jumped with more than 300 paratroopers from the 27th

  • McConnell EOD team uncovers 70 year-old weaponry

    It's not every day antique military ordnance is found where it has been lying in wait for decades in a farmer's field, but on May 30, that's exactly what happen in Russell, Kansas.The 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Standby Team was dispatched to check on a rusted Browning

  • McConnell AFB to hold KC-46A Pegasus groundbreaking ceremony

    A ground breaking ceremony for the incoming KC-46A Pegasus is scheduled to take place at McConnell Air Force Base, June 30, 2014 at 11 a.m. Gen. Darren McDew, Air Mobility Command commander, Brig. Gen. John Flournoy, Jr., 4th Air Force Reserve Command commander, and other distinguished visitors will

  • Westover airlifts 26 tons of aid to Nicaragua

    A training mission doubled as a humanitarian relief effort for Reserve Airmen from the 439th Airlift Wing, Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, as 13 Airmen delivered 26 tons of cargo to Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport, Nicaragua, June 10. This Denton Amendment mission delivered one

  • Fairchild and Air Force Space Command Firefighters have an Intervention

     You and your best friend are blinded as your whole world comes crashing down around you. Through the haze, you hear loud sirens screaming as they speed closer. Temperatures rise higher than those in California's Death Valley and as you look around, slowly regaining your bearing, your only means of

  • AGE technician wins AMC maintainer of the year award

    Dallas Nickerson, 62nd Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment technician, was awarded Air Mobility Command's civilian maintenance professional of the year award and was recognized by Brig. Gen. Warren Berry, Headquarters Air Mobility Command director of logistics, at an awards ceremony June

  • Warriors of the North host first M.A.C.A. Civil Fly-in

    About a dozen aircraft lined the flightline here with occupants who were not Air Force pilots or crew, but they were here to do official Air Force business.  The 319th Air Base Wing Safety Office hosted the 2014 Mid-Air Collision Avoidance program, better known as M.A.C.A., June 14."The main purpose