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  • Strengthening the Domains, AF Resilience Course Trains the Trainers

    The unassuming professional education classroom sits anchored in the corner of two normally quiet hallways. Inside, the atmosphere is buzzing with laughter, discussion and...disco music.The U.S. Air Force's sole course for master resilience instructor training, now two years strong, provides

  • Little Rock Air Force Base supports Green Flag exercise

    Three base squadrons conducted the first-ever Extracted Container Delivery System (XCDS) airdrops during the Green Flag Little Rock exercise June 16, 2014.Crews from the 34th Combat Training Squadron, 41st Airlift Squadron and 61st AS exercised techniques and tactics to employ combat airlift's

  • "Nobody Asks for This"

    Editor's note: The name of the victim in this article has been changed for the protection of the individual's privacy as well as the privacy and integrity of the case. Be mindful that no two sexual assault stories are the same.Rebecca woke up with the memories of last night scattered in her mind.

  • 18th Air Force welcomes new commander

    Lieutenant Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II assumed command of 18th Air Force during a ceremony officiated by Air Mobility Command Commander Gen. Darren W. McDew here, June 20. Addressing the Airmen in his new command for the first time, Everhart affirmed the command's heritage of excellence."18th Air

  • 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