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NEWS

  • Final rehearsal prepares Team Charleston for ORI

    Airmen from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., began returning home Oct. 29, following a week-long exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss.More than 600 Airmen deployed to form the 121st Air Expeditionary Wing as part of exercise Operation Crisis Look, in which Charleston Airmen

  • Libyan fighters receive U.S. medical treatment

    The U.S. government brought two dozen Libyan fighters to the United States for medical treatment they cannot receive at home. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced the movement Oct. 27.Clinton and Panetta released the statement seven days after

  • Rig it up, send it out: Army riggers provide supplies for troops downrange

    Some people count stars in the night sky. Some people count planes as they fly overhead. Some people count bundles as they float to the ground. Imagine counting to 1,498. That's the number of bundles the U.S. Army Reserve's 824th Quartermaster Company, Det. 10, also known as Army Riggers, built in

  • Travis AFB's precision measurements shop helps mission stay safe, accurate

    It may take dozens of maintainers to keep an aircraft mission ready, but it is often unseen that the tools and test equipment they use have its very own maintainers. The Airmen in the 60th Maintenance Squadron Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory, or PMEL, at Travis calibrate, maintain and

  • Scott AFB members give back to veterans of Saint Louis

    In the heart of Saint Louis with paintbrushes and tools in their hands more than 350 members of Scott AFB and community members volunteered to rehabilitate a building for local veterans Oct. 27 as part of the two-month "Celebration of Service" campaign. The national campaign, chaired by Home Depot

  • Air Force sniper nabs top score at joint marksmanship competition

    Air Force Staff Sgt. George Reinas took overall individual honors as servicemembers competed for top honors at the marksmanship competition Oct. 20 to 22 at Range 15 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Reinas, a combat instructor with the 421st Combat Training Squadron, was made famous by his

  • Nine people, two rescues, 12 hours: 36th Rescue Flight flexes its muscle

    In two separate rescue missions, spanning nearly 12 hours, Fairchild Airmen rescued nine people in the mountains near Lewiston, Idaho, on Oct. 21. The first rescue occurred when Mike Webberley, a 57-year-old male, slipped while deer hunting and fell down a steep valley suffering from injuries that