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  • Dover Airmen 'meet and greet' with AMC command chief

    Team Dover was on display when Chief Master Sgt. Richard Kaiser, Air Mobility Command's new command chief master sergeant, paid a visit to the base Sept. 26, 2011. Kaiser replaced Chief Master Sgt. David Spector in August, and is visiting all AMC bases. According to Kaiser, his visit to Dover Air

  • Joint Base Charleston Airmen visit, support Navy guided missile cruiser

    Leadership from Joint Base Charleston, including more than 30 Airmen, Sailors and civilians, welcomed the crew from the guided-missile cruiser, USS Vicksburg, Sept. 23, pier side in downtown Charleston. Vicksburg moored at the port of Charleston for a three day port visit.More than 20 Sailors and

  • Photo essay: New commandant leads Expeditionary Operations School

    Maj. Gen. William Bender, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, presents the Expeditionary Operations School guidon to Col. Patrick Owens on Sept. 26, 2011, during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Owens took command from Col. Mark Ellis. The

  • 18th Air Force welcomes new commander

    Lt. Gen. Mark F. Ramsay formally assumed command of the 18th Air Force from Lt. Gen. Robert R. Allardice in a change of command ceremony today at the Scott Club here. "The flag that we're passing today is significant ... it's the flag, it's the guidon, it's the colors of the Eighteenth Air Force,"

  • Fairchild receives new transfer fuel line

    Project and construction managers here, along with Garco Construction, are in the process of finishing up a construction project which was awarded in June 2010 and began in August that year. The construction team has installed a new fuel transfer line that runs from off-base stretching nearly across

  • 1855: A special "tale"

    Chief Master Sgt. Mark Marson, 314th Airlift Wing command chief, wrote in permanent marker, "she is an Airman," on the 47-year-old skin of aircraft C-130E 62-1855 at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group here. The Vietnam-Era C-130E was delivered to AMARG, commonly known as the

  • Air Mobility Command’s response saves lives

    In wars, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, the Air Mobility Command's real-time global response capability saves lives and brings people home, Air Force Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr. said Sept. 23.Johns, who commands AMC based at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., spoke to reporters here at a

  • Joint Base MDL personnel partner with DLA in fuel-spill exercise

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst members partnered with the Defense Logistics Agency to conduct a fuel-spill exercise Sept. 16 here.The exercise began at 9:18 a.m. when an Airman discovered a leak on a fuel-storage tank.The base's emergency operations center was activated once the simulated leak was