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  • 615th Airmen make connection with Hondurans

    Working together and exchanging ideas to build lasting partnerships ... these are the strategic goals of 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron. It's one of two squadrons charged with executing Air Mobility Command's building partner capacity mission. The BPC mission is primarily focused on the

  • Dream deployment: Travis major makes the most of his six months

    Maj. Alan Tornay returned from a six-month deployment to tell his colleagues that he had the "dream deployment." The fact that he earned the trust and friendship of his Afghan counterparts as well as a Bronze Star Medal speaks to his accomplishments while there.A Reservist with the 82nd Aerial Port

  • 2011 AMC Icon final competition set

    The 2011 edition of the Air Mobility Command "Icon" competition is set for Oct. 20 at the Scott Club here for 10 competitors from across AMC.Based loosely on the television show "American Idol," AMC Icon is an AMC commander's initiative to showcase the vocal talents of AMC Airmen. Each AMC base

  • New airlift routes provide new possibilities

    Planners from the U.S. Transportation Command and 618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) here teamed with the aircrew of a C-5M Super Galaxy from the 436th Airlift Wing at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to open a historic new non-stop route from the U.S. to Bagram

  • 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