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March 10, 2020
DOD issues flexible instructions on response to Coronavirus

The department issued memos responding to the need for operations to continue during the outbreak. The DoD documents build on messages from the Office of Personnel Management issued March 7.
March 10, 2020
Travis AFB support to HHS, Grand Princess repatriation

Upon docking, passengers will be medically screened by HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the port of entry, and only asymptomatic passengers will be transferred to federal military installations for continued COVID-19 screening and a 14-day quarantine.
March 6, 2020
From handcuffs to command chief: Airman shares personal story, encouragement

What started out as a good deployment, quickly turned into a nightmare for then Senior Airman Tony Jenkins. In the fall of 2000, Jenkins was deployed to Moron Air Base, Spain, as a maintainer on the KC-10 Extender aircraft with the 660th Generation Squadron out of Travis Air Force Base, California,
March 5, 2020
Barrett, Goldfein, Raymond outline Air Force priorities to House lawmakers while acknowledging difficult budget choices

Like the Senate hearing Tuesday, the session Wednesday in the House was only the first step in a lengthy process that will yield legislation providing a blueprint written by Congress of the spending, security and policy priorities for the entire United States military.
March 4, 2020
Patriot Express to begin routine flights to and from Guam

The Patriot Express (PE) will start flying passengers between Andersen Air Force Base, Guam and the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Mar. 7, 2020.
March 3, 2020
Air Force develops hard-hitting Defender Challenge 2020 drills for Security Forces

The U.S. Air Force Defender Challenge will pit Security Forces teams against each other in San Antonio, Texas, May 11-15, 2020. Defenders will prove their abilities in dismounted skills, endurance, agility, individual weapons, and military working dog (MWD) teams through a series of gut-testing
March 3, 2020
Mobility Airmen complete Agile Combat Employment experiment

Airmen from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and Kadena Air Base, Japan, completed an Agile Combat Employment experiment at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, Feb. 20, 2020.The training helped develop and improve an Air Force’s ability to rapidly deploy F-15 Eagle
Feb. 28, 2020
Honorary Commander, Golden Knight Program connect base to community

The 19th Airlift Wing hosted an Honorary Commander Induction Ceremony Feb. 26 at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. The Honorary Commander Program is a community outreach effort to continue building partnerships between local civic leaders and Team Little Rock. Not only were nine new members
Feb. 28, 2020
Association of Defense Communities visits TLR community

Representatives from the Association of Defense Communities visited Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, on Feb. 25-26, 2020, in recognition for being one of five communities across the country named to the 2020 Class of Great American Defense Communities.The program, now in its fifth year, was
Feb. 25, 2020
MWD retires at age 9

Earlier this year, the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst K-9 team retired one of their military working dogs, Kira, during a barbecue after six years of service.Whelped in Feb. 2011, the 9-year-old deployed several times along with multiple U.S. Secret Service missions during her six years stationed

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