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  • JBLM crews perform HI-RAIN live fire

    Following months of planning, Airmen and Soldiers completed JBLM's first joint live-fire M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems Rapid Infiltration (HI-RAIN) exercise, Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, in Schoonover, Calif. During the weeklong exercise, six McChord C-17 Globemaster III aircraft transported 12

  • Pilot for a day: 10 year old becomes Travis Airman through Make-A-Wish

    AJ Calisi is not your average 10-year-old.He has an infatuation with movies from before his time, such as The Goonies, Ghostbusters and Stand by Me. His favorite dishes include salmon and grilled vegetables. He loves magic tricks, but nothing rivals his fascination with those serving in uniform as

  • JB MDL service members visit Super Bowl Blvd

    More than 100 service members and their guests from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., attended the USAA Military VIP experience at the NFL House on Super Bowl Blvd. in Manhattan, N.Y., Feb. 1, 2014.The attendees were invited to be part of the guest audience during the USAA Salute to Service

  • Providing Care: Senior Airman Taryn Summers

    U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Novak, United States Special Operations Command, lay in the middle of the road waiting for care after his motorcycle had collided into a car early Tuesday morning outside of the Dale Mabry gate of MacDill Air Force Base. Senior Airman Taryn Summers, 91st Air Refueling

  • Effectiveness inspection begins for Fairchild's classic-association wings

    Fairchild Air Force Base's Unit Effectiveness Inspection capstone visit began Wednesday as the first inspection of a KC-135 Total Force Integration organization under the new Air Force Inspection System.About 90 members from the Air Mobility Command Inspector General's inspection team, consisting of

  • HQ AMC staff exceed DCO record

    Headquarters Air Mobility Command staff broke the AMC record for number of participants on Defense Connect Online during a recent commander's all-call.The all-call had two goals, to inform the headquarters staff and to test the limits of DCO. Gen. Paul Selva, AMC commander, remarked the only other

  • Quickstoppers

    There I Was ... Call Me FlipperBy Mr. Joe HughesHQ AMC/SEGAs I watched my young son doing flips on the trampoline, he taunted me into trying it myself. At age 45, this was well within my ability, or at least in my mind it was. I practiced over and over again, in secrecy of course, until I perfected

  • Flying Hour Milestones

    Flying Hour Milestones8,500 Hours165 AW, Savannah, GA     SMSgt Aaron W. Mays7,500 Hours1 AS, Joint Base Andrews, MD     Lt Col Michael Dellert58 AS, Altus AFB, OK     MSgt Donny Washam165 AW, Savannah, GA     Lt Col James D. Leith6,500 Hours9 ARS, Travis AFB, CA     CMSgt Robbie Wellbaum     SMSgt

  • Spotlight Award: SSgt Ryan Rodgers

    SSgt Ryan Rodgers serves as the Aerial Port Support Section Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, 728th Air Mobility Squadron, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. He identified numerous hazardous conditions in the work environment during his weekly safety inspections. In response, he co-authored four Job Safety

  • Looks Like Stormy Weather

    Of all the changes of the seasons, it sure seems like everyone is happiest to see the arrival of spring. I don't know of that many people who really look forward to the arrival of cold temperatures and piles of snow that winter usually brings, but I know there are some who do! In the spring, flowers