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  • Fairchild commemorates milestone moment with Manas redeployers

    Team Fairchild has supported expeditionary operations with the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgystan, for more than a decade. After nearly a year of planning, the wing's KC-135 Stratotankers and crews returned home from Manas for the last time to a commemoration and welcoming home ceremony here Feb.

  • 18th Air Force Commander: 'Offer Value Through Competence'

    "No commander will ignore competence ," the commander of the Air Mobility Command's only Numbered Air Force told the command' s public affairs professionals, Jan. 30.Lt. Gen. Darren W. McDew, 18th Air Force commander and former Director of Public Affairs for the Air Force, shared his perspectives

  • Infrastructure upgrades enhance joint base missions

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Air Force and New Jersey leaders officially opened the joint base's newest Command Post and Base Operations joint facility as well as a new dormitory with two ribbon-cutting ceremonies Feb. 24, 2014, here.The JB MDL Command Post and several 305th OSS flights,

  • Fairchild completes UEI Capstone event

    Team Fairchild, the third base in Air Mobility Command to go through an inspection and the first base of a KC-135 Total Force Integration organization under the new Air Force Inspection System called the Unit Effectiveness Inspection, earned an initial rating of, 'Effective' for both the 92nd and

  • Managing the airfield after hours

    With roughly 14 million square feet of pavement, and 2,168 lights, Fairchild's airfield lights up further then the eye can see after the sun goes down, and a 16-member team works in partnership with a few other agencies to ensure the airfield is mission-ready throughout the night. While many base

  • C-17 crews demonstrate joint, international capabilities

    Five C-17 Globemaster III aircraft departed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and dropped more than 380 U.S. and Royal Thai paratroopers into Lopburi Airfield, Thailand, Feb. 15 in support of multi-national military exercise Exercise Cobra Gold.The airdrop operation flown by aircrews