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  • Joint Inspection simulator now available on ADLS

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Mobility Operations School recently fielded the Joint Inspection Instruction Simulator on the USAF Advanced Distributive Learning Service; the first simulator of its kind to run completely on ADLS. The simulator can be used by both Joint Inspection

  • Airman becomes father to triplets while deployed

    Deploying can be a disorienting experience in and of itself. Senior Airman Harley Wicks, 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Transportation at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., left for Afghanistan the day after Christmas last year knowing he was about to be the father of triplets.Wick's wife,

  • 62nd AW Airmen support massive U.S.-Australian exercise

    Airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing here, along with other Mobility Airmen from across the U.S., will join more than 28,000 of their fellow Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Australian counterparts in northern Australia for Exercise Talisman Saber 2013. Talisman Saber is a biennial training activity

  • Angel watching over me

    Team Dover hosted a dedication and unveiling ceremony of a veteran memorial sculpture July 22, 2013, at the campus of the Center for the Families of the Fallen here.The bronze sculpture depicting a guardian angel holding and protecting a wounded soldier will sit in the meditation garden at the

  • Martin assumes command of 60th Air Mobility Wing

    Col. Corey Martin assumed command of the 60th Air Mobility Wing from Col. Dwight Sones during the wing's change of command ceremony Monday in Hangar P14 at Travis Air Force Base, Calif.Martin takes leadership of the largest wing in Air Mobility Command in terms of personnel, arriving from Manas

  • The New Eighteenth Air Force: Humble beginnings, Global Mission

     Author's Note: This story is the second in a series of three detailing the history of the Eighteenth Air Force.    After an absence of more than four decades, the Eighteenth Air Force was reborn on Oct. 1, 2003, the first major revision to Air Mobility Command's organizational structure in more

  • Col. David Kumashiro assumes command of the 62nd Airlift Wing

    A change of command can be defined as an event that drives the plot of a story and occurs just before one adventure begins and another adventure ends. Men and women of Team McChord witnessed such an event when Col. David Kumashiro assumed command of the 62nd Airlift Wing from Col. Wyn Elder during a