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NEWS

  • Silent flight makes 'boom' in refuel mission

    Four KC-10 Extenders from the 305th Air Mobility Wing fly to a rendezvous point to meet with four KC-135 Stratotankers from the 6th Air Mobility Wing, out of MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. The KC-10s and the KC-135s flew to a designated point in a straight line a mile behind and 1000 feet above the

  • SERE trainers eat weird stuff, chill in woods

    Your aircraft experienced a catastrophic engine failure and went down in the heart of a great forest. You survey the wreckage and find you are the only survivor. Fear and panic begins to worm its way to the foreground of your consciousness. Then you begin to remember bits and pieces of survival tips

  • Corporal's Course receives sister service members

    Joint base service members from the Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy are attending Corporal's Course, previously exclusive to Marines, March 11 through 29, 2013, here.The current iteration of Corporal's Course here is the first to open its doors to sister services. It is a three-week course in which

  • Services train together

    Travis Airmen and Army National Guard Soldiers wrapped-up a joint forces service exercise March 22.Airmen from the 21st and 301st Airlift Squadron loaded eight soldiers and four Humvees from the 49th Military Police Brigade onto a C-17 Globemaster III en route to Moses Lake, Wash. for a simulated

  • Running Strong: Marathon runner delivers motivational speech at base school

    Motivational speaker and avid marathon runner Kurt Philion visited Nathan Twining Middle School here March 25 to share the story of how he began running and why he runs today."Kurt doesn't just run, said Dr. May Koopman, Twining Middle School principal during the introduction. "He runs carrying a

  • DOD looks at funding's effect on personnel, programs

    Defense Department officials are looking at the recently signed continuing resolution that funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year to discern how the legislation affects personnel and programs, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said March 27.The legislation may mean fewer furlough

  • Joint Task Force builds skills, ties with RAF at unique exercise

    Units deploying to U.S. Transportation Command's Eagle Flag exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst N.J., can expect to encounter austere field conditions, heated interaction with role players acting as difficult locals, and lots and lots of cargo. But when air mobility specialists from the

  • TCM introduces Kyrgyz military to aeromedical evacuations

    Transit Center at Manas medical professionals meet weekly with their counterparts in the Kyrgyz military for the purpose of exchanging information on processes and sharing common terminology. At the request of the Kyrgyz Republic, the most recent military exchange introduced several Kyrgyz military

  • Senator visits Michael Anderson Elementary School

    U.S. Senator Patty Murray D-Wash., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, visited Michael Anderson Elementary School here Tuesday to meet with military families and school officials to discuss the effects of sequestration on school students and programs.Murray heard directly from military families

  • C-130 maintenance training team helps Royal Thai AF counterparts

    A mobile training team from the 373rd Training Squadron's Field Training Detachment 4 returned here March 9 from a month-long deployment to Thailand providing C-130 maintenance training to the Royal Thai Air Force.Nine members of the field training detachment (FTD) made up the team of instructors