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  • Yokota Airmen Showcase Low-Cost, Low Altitude Airdrop at Cope South 14

    U.S. Airmen from Yokota Air Base, Japan, demonstrated Low-Cost, Low Altitude airdrop techniques to Bangladeshi Airmen, during a subject-matter expert exchange at Bangabandhu Air Base, Bangladesh, Nov. 9 through 13, 2013. The exchange, a key part of exercise Cope South, was designed to show

  • Ground broken on second Fisher House

    More than 200 invited guests, Solano County dignitaries, Travis base leadership, news media, radio personalities and friends of the Travis Fisher House gathered Wednesday to witness history repeat itself. For the second time in two decades, ceremonial shovels dug into the ground to mark the breaking

  • Innovation streamlines AMC requirements process

    Air Mobility Command officials recently introduced an innovative tool that is transforming the command's process for gathering and prioritizing Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) requirements, and will soon be expanded to include other requirements.The Enterprise

  • The first C-5A Galaxy returns to Dover AFB to rest

    The Air Mobility Command museum unveiled the newest edition to its aircraft collection Nov. 9, 2013 here.The C-5A Galaxy was delivered to Dover AFB in 1971, which makes it Dover AFB's longest serving aircraft type and now the first aircraft of its kind to be in a museum. "It was the very first C-5

  • U.S. military to aid typhoon-devastated Philippines

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed U.S. Pacific Command yesterday to support U.S. government humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines in the wake of a deadly typhoon that has left more than 1,000 dead, defense officials announced yesterday.The support, provided at the request of the

  • Kennel supports pets through self- sufficiency

    Open since late 2010, Tanker Tails is the only Air Force non-appropriated funded kennel ran strictly by profit in the continental United States. "We are funded strictly by profit because we do not get Air Force money," said Heather Krell, 92nd Force Support Squadron Tanker Tails manager. "The base

  • PMEL prolongs equipment effectiveness

    There's no margin of error when lives are on the line making the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory here such an integral part of Fairchild Air Force Base's mission."PMEL is responsible for calibrating equipment used in virtually every phase of maintenance for nearly every piece of equipment

  • Joint exercise paves way for future JBLM war-time capability

    A month of joint planning between Air Force and Army units at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., paid off when Airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing and Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery came together Nov. 4-5 to carry out "Operation Guy Fawkes," a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System