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  • TCSC spreads holiday cheer through cookies

    The holiday season can be a challenging time for those Airmen and Sailors living in the dorms and are still becoming accustomed to being away from family. The Team Charleston Spouses Club initiated their annual Cookie Drop Dec. 6 at the Base Chapel Annex to reach out to these troops.The Cookie Drop

  • Suspicious vehicle prompts gate closure at Fairchild

    Fairchild security forces stopped a civilian woman from attempting to enter the base through the outbound lanes Dec. 3 at 11:45 a.m., prompting the base to close the main gate for nearly five hours. The woman was detained by security forces and was later released to the Spokane County Sheriff's

  • Racquetball: Good for your mind and your body

    Senior Master Sgt. Jerry Turley is the 618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) logistics readiness superintendent. On a day-to-day basis he is busy providing maintenance recovery support to all Air Mobility Command's tasked aircraft that require repairs while they are

  • Airlift group prepares for tomorrow's disasters today

    "We train to save lives and answer the nation's call at a moment's notice, so others may prevail," said Col. Dan P. Dagher, 317th Airlift Group commander.The C-130 delivers hope not only to service members, but to families in other countries through medical evacuation, humanitarian missions and

  • 87th MDG pushes up to reach 1 million

    The 87th Medical Group combat medics began a unit competition among its squadrons to achieve a combined goal of completing one million pushups between October 1 and Sept. 30, 2012.The idea behind completing one million pushups is not only a numerical goal, but a means to promote physical fitness,

  • Soldiers in Afghanistan receive GPS-guided airdrop from mobility Airmen

    Airmen from the 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron successfully completed an airdrop mission to Combat Outpost Herrera in east Afghanistan, using Global Positioning System guided bundles to deliver the supplies on Nov. 27, 2011.The C-130 Hercules, operated by its crew from the 451st Air

  • 305th AMW Airmen return home from NATO support mission

    Airmen with the 305th Air Mobility Wing returned home from Europe, where they supported the final KC-10 Extender flight--and the last flight to redeploy home from their European air refueling staging base--in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's operation in Libya making the close of

  • Logistics at its finest: LRS shines during redeployment

    For almost a year, Team Fairchild operated out of Moses Lake, Wash., and the Spokane International Airport as its runway was undergoing reconstruction.As the runway reconstruction came to its final stages, operations out of Moses Lake began their drawdown in preparation to return to Fairchild.With

  • 92nd CES explosive ordnance disposal personnel have safety day

    The 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight began their Air Force Headquarters-directed safety day Nov. 15 with a 5K Ruck March to commemorate and increase awareness about the Airmen EOD has lost through the years. "The toll on the EOD career field has been significant,"