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  • McConnell Dental clinic extends helping hand for Iraqi partner

    The dental clinic here extended a helping hand to a foreign national during an emergency dental procedure carried out mid-January at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.Hasanain Abdulameer, an Iraqi national, is attending an aircraft training class under a Department of Defense-sponsored program and

  • Air Force continues to improve care in the air

    The Air Force is committed to research and development for advancements in en route patient care.The AMC Command Surgeon and researchers across the Air Force, to include the 711th Human Resource Wing at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, have been working together to improve how the Air Force

  • New Chiefs gain command perspectives at leadership course

    Chief Master Sergeants from around the world attended this year's Air Mobility Command Chief Leadership Course here Feb. 3-4 and learn what it means to be a top enlisted leader in today's Air Force."The purpose of this course is to prepare the new chiefs for strategic-level thinking; how to

  • KC-135 crew saves F-16 pilot from ejecting over enemy lines

    A McConnell KC-135 Stratotanker crew saved an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot from ejecting over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-held territory in 2015, which could have resulted in the Airman's captivity or death.While deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the crew responded to an F-16

  • AMC Intel directorate provides 24/7 support to sustain mission

    For some, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance may conjure images of shaken martinis, fast cars equipped with rockets and special satellites with cameras zooming into focus on targets thousands of miles away.While Hollywood has influenced these images, some of the true heroes in military

  • Fairchild named 2015 Omaha Trophy recipient

    The 92nd Air Refueling Wing was selected as the 2015 Omaha Trophy recipient in the Strategic Aircraft category.Each year, the United States Strategic Command selects units in five categories that best support its strategic deterrence, space and cyberspace missions. The five categories include

  • Scott JA hosts annual symposium

    The 375th Air Mobility Wing legal experts held their 6th annual symposium Jan. 29 to assists commanders and first sergeants handle legal situations they may encounter."We invited leaders not only from the wing, but also from our mission partners on base--and anyone who may have been interested in

  • C-130 Reservists train Afghans for the first time

    Approximately three dozen Reservists from several different C-130 airlift wings deployed to Afghanistan where they became the first members of Air Force Reserve Command to perform the mission as air advisors to their Afghan counterparts on C-130 Hercules maintenance, flight and operations

  • Airmen work in concert to execute rapid global mobility

    It's been raining sideways for hours since he arrived for work on the flightline at 6 a.m. Staff Sgt. Justin Worcester ignores his drenched uniform and plows ahead while inspecting every inch of the 53-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker, because he's a crew chief.  His name is on it. "We put everything on

  • AMC leaders share way ahead for 2016

    Air Mobility Command hosted the first all call of the new year Jan. 20, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.AMC Commander Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II kicked off the event by thanking mobility Airmen for their efforts to execute and sustain Rapid Global Mobility operations around the world in 2015."I