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  • New public health officer to promote resiliency at Fairchild

    In addition to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the Coast Guard, there are also two less-known branches of the Federal Service - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Public Health Service. At Fairchild, there is now a member of the Public Health Service whose sole

  • Scott AFB Airmen prepare for international skills competition

    Airmen from Scott Air Force Base will travel to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., (McChord Field) to compete in the 2011 Air Mobility Rodeo competition July 24-29.Sponsored by Air Mobility Command, the event focuses on building international partnerships through competition. It features events

  • Business pros share secrets for gaining, sustaining efficiency

    In its quest to improve efficiency, Air Mobility Command brought in business experts April 20 to learn the best ways to implement process changes. Hammer and Company briefed more than 90 mobility leaders on Business Process Re-engineering who then started looking at how to increase the efficiency of

  • Citizen Airmen support Operation Unified Protector

    Like any typical Saturday, Master Sgt. Jocelyn Fredrick planned to spend the weekend with her two young children. But a phone call early in the morning changed all that. Sergeant Fredrick, an intelligence specialist with the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Pittsburgh, was called to serve in Operation

  • Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airman's EOD role helped to save lives

    For most Americans, the Academy Award winning movie "The Hurt Locker" was just that -- a movie. But for Staff Sgt. Mark Walker, it's his life. Sergeant Walker, an explosive ordnance disposal craftsman with the 627th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD Flight, spent part of 2010 diffusing bombs and

  • Black Knights welcome 18th Air Force commander

    The 18th Air Force commander believes Team Little Rock is ready for anything, and he has firsthand experience to prove it.Lt. Gen. Robert Allardice, 18th Air Force commander, visited Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., from Feb. 22 to 24 and met with Airmen, civilians and local community leaders."Team

  • McChord Airman's tearful homecoming surprise

    October 5 was a normal school day for 12-year-old Paxton Baker, until she got called into the principal's office.With her head down, Paxton slowly walked down the hall to the principal's office. She opened the door to find her father, Tech. Sgt. Raymond Ibay, 627th Air Base Group vehicle maintenance

  • Flight aboard Super Galaxy impresses scientists

    It seemed like a normal flight. Bleary-eyed passengers sat slumped in blue seats, ignoring the emergency safety briefing and waiting for someone to bring them juice. But anchored by chains to the cargo bay floor below sat a billion-dollar instrument designed to advance the human race's knowledge

  • C-5M Super Galaxy delivers 7-ton particle detector

    It's the physics community's billion-dollar baby -- a 7.5-ton device so powerful that it could rock the core of modern science and reveal a new chapter in the universe's history. And the aptly-named C-5M Super Galaxy flew the device on its last terrestrial journey Aug. 26 before traveling on the

  • Ambitious sergeant makes rank quickly

    Making chief master sergeant is no easy task, but Senior Master Sgt. Brian Kentta, the superintendent for the operations division of Air Mobility Command's Directorate of Communications, made it look simple by being selected for chief at the age of 36.The average chief master sergeant sews on after