Little Rock AFB gets tanked, saves money and energy

The 19th Civil Engineering Squadron is finishing up an estimated $2.6 million water distribution system upgrade project on base scheduled to be completed in the coming months.The project will replace an antiquated 50-year-old water storage tank and potable water booster pump station with a newly

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: McConnell works to break the cycle

October marks the national observation of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As a result, McConnell's family advocacy program participated in a community event Oct. 18, 2011, to help military members and their families understand the realities of domestic violence.The event took place at Wichita,

Team Dover kicks off historic C-5 surge

Seven C-5B Galaxy and C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft from Dover Air Force Base, Del., took off between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20 as part of a United States Transportation Command-wide 41-plane C-5 surge. The historic surge of the nation's largest military airlifters exercised the ability to fly cargo in

15 acres of land made 'ecologically safer' at Little Rock AFB

Nearly 15 acres of the base, previously used as a skeet range in the 1960s, is an ecologically safer place today because of a restoration project that excavated 36 million pounds of contaminated soil, or enough to fill 450 semi-trucks, and replaced it with more than 3,000 trees and recycled soil and

Terry Yonkers tours Grand Forks AFB

Terry Yonkers, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations, Environment and Logistics, took a whirlwind tour of Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., Oct. 12 and 13.During his visit, Mr. Yonkers toured the base, attended briefing sessions with the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Command's

AMC Chief Scientist: Alternative fuels can be the ‘cleaner jet fuel’

Just as the character "Doc" in the "Back to the Future" movie loaded the flux-capacitor of the time-travel modified 1975 DeLorean with a banana peel and trash from Marty McFly's garbage can, Air Force scientists are looking for the next readily available, renewable clean-burning aircraft fuel.Air

Local leaders receive commander's advice at Grand Forks

Aspiring local leaders were able to seek advice from the top Air Force commander here during an Oct. 12 visit and tour.Thirty-five members of the Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn., Chamber of Commerce Leadership Training Program met with Col. Tim Bush, commander of the 319th Air Base

Disease exercise keeps Joint Base MDL prepared

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst conducted a full scale biological agent attack exercise Oct. 6 and 7 here.The exercise was formulated to assess the capabilities of the installation disease containment plan and to determine what can be done better in the future to improve medical emergency

AMC command chief plants seed of expectations in Airmen

Chief Master Sgt. Andy Kaiser, Air Mobility Command's newly-appointed command chief, shared his expectations and hopes for the Airmen here, while outlining what is to come in the future.Kaiser, from AMC's headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst as well as

Photos: AMC's General Green visits Grand Forks AFB