Joint Base MDL provides guidance, support to FEMA response teams

Airmen from three wings across Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst came together March 20 through 23 to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency with an operational readiness exercise here.Approximately 30 incident management assistance team members from FEMA Region II, based in New York, N.Y.,

Photos: Fairchild group commander assists fuels Airmen with refueling

The 92nd Mission Support Group commander assisted his logistics Airmen with their mission here March 15 as he participated in the refueling of a KC-135 Stratotanker.Col. Mike Hill, 92nd Mission Support Group commander, used the opportunity to better understand the effort put into the mission from

Reflecting back: Mobility Airmen recall 'families helping families' during Operation Pacific Passage

Shortly after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and destructive tsunami struck Japan March 11, 2011, mobility Airmen around the world began a world-wide effort to help the Japanese people. By March 18, 2011, that support and help would include evacuating American military families through Operation

Financial discipline results in new TMO offices on Grand Forks AFB

Officials here held a ribbon cutting ceremony March 20 to open a newly renovated traffic management office thanks to the successful commitment of base personnel to the government travel card program.Each quarter the Air Mobility Command provides rebates to bases that report less than two percent

AMC instructs youth development professionals in 4-H basics, resiliency

Air Mobility Command Headquarters instructed 19 youth coordinators from six AMC bases to take part in 4-H "101" and resiliency training here March 13-16, to learn and share best practices for Air Force youth development. "Head, heart, hands and health" are the four H's in 4-H. This conference, based

18th Air Force, Expeditionary Center units stand down, realign to increase efficiency, effectiveness

Two 18th Air Force units stood down and several were realigned under the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center as the latest step in an ongoing restructuring process intended to enhance AMC's effectiveness and efficiency in global air mobility operations, expeditionary education, and enroute and

Japanese delegation thanks Team Dover for tsunami relief efforts

Approximately one year ago, inside the homes, schools and businesses of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, the walls and furniture began to shake. A few hours later, more than 15,000 residents were left dead, more than 250,000 buildings lay in ruin, and three nuclear reactors spewed forth radiation into the

Local brothers become 'Pilot for a Day' at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

As they climbed aboard a C-17 Globemaster III for the first time, two local brothers could hardly hold back their excitement.The brothers from Centralia, Wash., are battling cystic fibrosis and recently had an opportunity to step in the shoes of an Airman and become a part of Team McChord when they

Photos: McConnell Air Force Base jets takeoff from Fairchild

21st EMTF inactivates, expands EC's role in global air mobility

The 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force stood down and its subordinate units were administratively transferred to the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center during a ceremony here March 19 at the Global Reach Deployment Center."It is a bittersweet occasion any time an officer relinquishes command