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  • USAF team exchanges ideas, hope with Senegalese air force

    Members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing and U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa recently returned from an engagement with their Senegalese air force counterparts May 20-24, 2013, in Dakar, Senegal. The engagement provided a forum for Airmen from both nations to share ideas on relief

  • Mother of DUI victim brings story to MacDill

    "I never would have imagined that I would spend my Mother's Day with all four of my children at a funeral home with one in a coffin." That was the vivid picture Renee Napier, mother of the late Meagen Napier, painted during an alcohol awareness briefing held at MacDill Air Force Base, May 31.Almost

  • Slideshow: CATM teaches M-4 qualification course

    Combat Arms Training and Maintenance instructors provide classroom and hands-on training to Airmen who are deploying, changing station overseas, or to meet an annual requirement. Click here to view the slideshow

  • 376th EAMXS keep air refuelers flying

    Troops on the ground in Afghanistan are supported by pilots flying A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, F-16 Fighting Falcons, B-1 Lancers and more in the region, until the aircraft inevitably  uses its fuel supply. KC-135 Stratotankers, flying out of Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, are used to provide air

  • Maintenance innovation has potential to save time, money

    Rocks kicked up when landing a C-130 on unimproved runways can damage the fuselage of the aircraft. To combat this problem, maintainers in the 302nd Maintenance Group here began putting tape on the plane's belly. In January, they took another step by applying protective tape to the forward landing

  • Training while killing biters

    Roaring overhead at more than 200 mph, 100 feet above watery areas of Williston, N.D. and Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules aircraft from Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, provided much needed relief during aerial spray missions May 28 to June 7, 2013.Citizen

  • Airman wins Volunteer Parent of the Year

    Military personnel have always made community involvement and volunteering a priority and a Dover NCO was recently recognized for his efforts. Staff Sgt. Jon Meyers, 9th Airlift Squadron flight engineer, received the Capital School District Parent Volunteer of the Year award in a ceremony May 29,

  • The end of an era

    A security specialist is set to retire after 42 years. Jay Darcey is a retired chief master sergeant who had 30 years of experience in the Air Force as a law enforcement specialist. He is now retiring from his current job as the base security liaison at Welch Elementary and Dover Air Force Base

  • Defenders forward deploy to secure Air Force assets

    After a hard landing on Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan, a C-130 Hercules sits immobile at the edge of the runway. Two engines are missing, and the body has gashes and burns throughout. Although everyone made it safely off the aircraft, the damage is irreparable; however, components on the

  • Logistics Airmen own the night during joint-service training

    A joint-coalition team led by the 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron peers into a dark, moonless sky in preparation for a nighttime helicopter sling load mission. All of their other senses are heightened to compensate for the reduced visibility as a UH-60 Black Hawk flown by Soldiers