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  • Pharmacy student earns Air Force commission at Joint Base MDL

    Jennifer Wang, a pharmacy intern with the 87th Medical Group, was sworn into the United States Air Force officer corps Jan. 10 at the Edwards Resource Center here, as part of the Health Professions Scholarship Program. The HPSP is an Air Force initiative designed to provide financial assistance to

  • Pair find paths to becoming pilots

    Originally enlisted as an F-16 Fighting Falcon crew chief in the Air National Guard, Senior Airman Dan Stein decided he wanted to go active duty. With this goal in mind, he began ROTC in college while still a member of the Guard. Stein, now a C-17 Globemaster III first pilot - the Air Force

  • Maintenance Ops Squadron completes the puzzle

    When it comes to the hard-working Airmen at Travis, it is no secret that the maintainers put in some of the longest, most stressful and physically taxing hours on base. But like any other group here, they still have to maintain their planning, metrics, quality assurance, coordination and training

  • DGMC researchers first in Department of Defense to test new device

    Researchers at David Grant  Medical Center recently became the first Department of Defense recipients of a portable heart and lung machine that is expected to revolutionize air transport of critically injured troops. The CARDIOHELP life support system is a versatile device that can temporarily do

  • Joint Base MDL Airmen contribute to AMC's aircrew safety; test new mask

    Flight crews have fewer than 10 seconds during a rapid decompression to don an oxygen mask before losing consciousness at 35,000 feet.Airmen at the Air Mobility Test and Evaluation Squadron here completed the fourth and final phase of testing on the new Aviation Oxygen and Respiratory Systems

  • 'iCarly' cast rocks JB MDL

    Hundreds of servicemembers and their excited children waited outside the Timmerman Center here Jan. 11 in anticipation of the "iCarly" cast and an exclusive screening of their newest episode.More than 700 tickets were passed out on a first come, first serve basis and given to unit leadership

  • Airman injured at Kandahar awarded Purple Heart

    In Kandahar, Afghanistan, where East meets West in a struggle to defeat the Taliban lies an air base that's home to 30,000 servicemembers tasked with the job to assist NATO and Afghan nationals in gaining and maintaining security.During 2011 alone, more than 400 U.S. servicemembers died and more

  • 62nd AMXS flying crew chiefs keep the mission moving

    You've been on the road for eight days of non-stop flying and the plane just broke down. Your crew is transporting wounded servicemembers from the war zone to receive medical treatment in a country nearby. Everyone is counting on you to fix the problem, your hands are shaking and you're

  • Afghanistan airdrops surpass record levels in 2011

    In 2011, mobility Airmen delivering airdrops reached a new annual record with 80,153,604 pounds of cargo delivered. That's nearly 16 million more pounds delivered than the previous record set in 2010 of 60,400,000.At more than 80.1 million pounds -- that's the equivalent of standing on a mountain

  • 305th MXG officers win AMC award, compete at Air Force level

    Two 305th Maintenance Group officers were recently recognized as the Air Mobility Command nominees for the Air Force 2011 Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Maintenance Award for their respective categories.Maj. Ash Cannon, 305th Maintenance Operations Squadron commander, and Capt. Gary Charland, 605th