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  • Fairchild Airmen respond to Navy plane crash

    A team of Fairchild Airmen traveled to Harrington, Wash., Monday after an EA-6B Prowler from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island crashed. The Prowler, from Electronic Attack Squadron 129, was on a routine training flight when it crashed in an unpopulated area. All three crew members perished in the

  • Transition assistance

    In an effort to help military members make the move to the civilian work force, major changes to the Department of Defense Transition Assistance Program have been implemented.Regardless of total years served in the Air Force, active duty, Guard and Reserve, Airmen are now required to complete the

  • Prayer breakfast unites Airmen, community

    "It says something about us as a people for 61 years now that this great prayerful tradition has endured," said President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Feb 7, 2013.Approximately 1,200 miles away, more than 300 Team McConnell members gathered in the Robert J. Dole

  • 43rd AG participates in combined and joint training exercise

    The 43rd Airlift Group exercised their Global Response Force (GRF) mission by participating in the Joint Operational Access Exercise (JOAX) 13-02 with U.S. Army and Canadian partners here Feb. 25 through Feb. 28.JOAX is a combined and joint training exercise designed to prepare elements of the 82nd

  • Airman saves life, earns city's recognition

    In the early morning, you're driving through the city when you see two men pushing a stalled vehicle. You stop to see if they need help, and another vehicle strikes the two men against their car, fracturing one man's leg and severing the other's below the knee. The victim with the severed leg is

  • Furloughs can begin April 26, DOD comptroller says

    Unless Congress acts to end sequestration, furloughs for Defense Department civilian employees can begin April 26, the department's comptroller said here March 11.Robert F. Hale discussed the furlough planning process with a Pentagon audience. The comptroller also took questions sent in via Facebook

  • Dyess maintainer named 2012 AMC crew chief of the year

    Staff Sgt. Jamie Febus, 317th Maintenance Squadron, was recently named one of three Air Mobility Command crew chiefs of the year."I am honored and privileged to represent the 317th Maintenance Squadron as their crew chief of the year," Febus said. "Working alongside my fellow maintainers would

  • SAVE the birds

    From a tiny room within Air Mobility Command behind a computer, the command's chief scientist educated more than 500 students from 30 Illinois schools about air mobility aircraft - and birds. Dr. Don Erbschloe, or "Doc E," hosted a webinar to teach children ranging from grades four through eight how

  • Sequestration impacts ripple across Air Force

    Air Force senior leaders issued updated guidance to leaders of Air Force major commands and addressed the service's Airmen last week on how the service will operate under sequestration and a continuing resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year.Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Jamie

  • C-130 maintainers keep 'em flying

    Every day, Airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron are performing essential repairs to C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft.C-130s generally spend a year here while crews rotate in and out.Tech Sgt. Michael Raver, 455th AMXS dedicated crew chief, said that the crews currently