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  • Team Scott receives new aeromedical training simulator

    The 375th AES held a ribbon cutting ceremony May 6 for a newly built simulator that alleviates training difficulties due to availability-limited airframes.The 375th AES Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) is designed to provide AE crew members a realistically simulated clinical experience to challenge

  • Aeromedical evacuation Airmen train Lebanese Armed Forces

    The Defense Institute for Medical Operations sent a four-person team to Beirut, Lebanon to teach, mentor and learn from the Lebanese Armed Forces about various ways to provide assistance during a humanitarian crisis.Lt. Col. James Baldock, 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Commander, and Capt.

  • Airlift squadron's inactivation 'bittersweet'

    For the fifth time in its 76-year history, the 10th Airlift Squadron at McChord Field was inactivated during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, May 6, 2016. The squadron was most recently reactivated at McChord Field back in 2003.This inactivation was due, in part, to a provision of

  • First AFRC tanker goes digital at Tinker

    The 507th Air Refueling Wing here is the first Air Force Reserve Command unit to receive the new KC-135 Block 45 upgrade, an improvement to the flight deck that provides flight crews with an updated autopilot and digital panels that eliminate analog instrument gauges by consolidating the outdated

  • U.S. Air Force SAPR Director visits McChord Field

    "I ask one question--do we have a problem with sexual assault?" asked Maj. Gen. James Johnson, Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office director.Johnson asked this question, along with a number of similar questions, during the 2nd Annual McChord Field Sexual Assault Legal Workshop,

  • Dover C-5 departure reliability rate reaches all-time high

    Aircraft break no matter what, causing delays. But as of late, this has been happening less often.Over the past 12-month and 24-month periods, Team Dover's fleet of 18 C-5M Super Galaxy airlifters have experienced the highest Home-Station Logistics Departure Reliability Rate in their history, which

  • SecAF visits Fairchild

    The Honorable Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, visited Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington to obtain a better understanding of daily operations at the 92nd and 141st Air Refueling Wings and 336th Training Group April 27, 2016.During her visit, James observed 336th TRG Survival,

  • Dover Aerial Port trucks cargo to JB MDL

    Since February 2016, Team Dover's fleet of C-5M Super Galaxy airlifters has temporarily operated out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, due to an ongoing runway construction project at Dover AFB, which has created shortened runway operations, causing a few changes to the 436th Aerial

  • Fairchild perfect answer for evacuated McConnell KC-135s

    Because of its ramp space, logistical capabilities, and maintenance facilities, Fairchild received six KC-135 Stratotankers that were evacuated from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., April 26, due to projected severe weather."Severe weather with damaging winds and hail with a possibility of

  • Investigation report details death at Scott Air Force Base

    Air Mobility Command officials released the ground accident investigation board report regarding the Oct. 29, 2015, death of an Airmen who collapsed during his physical fitness assessment at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.Tech. Sgt. Nicholas T. Kruse-Wright, assigned to the 375th Force Support