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  • Building partnerships through training at Little Rock AFB

    In May 1971, the 314th Airlift Wing was introduced to Little Rock Air Force Base. Throughout the last 40 years, C-130 training has expanded as well as the opportunities afforded to international students. Foreign students come here for training, but when they leave, they take with them not only a

  • Fairchild Airmen rescue hiker, son from mountain top

    Airmen from the 336th Training Group saved a 50-year-old man from a mountaintop near Wenatchee, Wash., on Aug.  20.Patrick Ward had been hiking with his son, who contacted local authorities when his father began suffering from acute mountain sickness."When you go up in altitude, your body doesn't

  • Couple's bedroom gets homecoming makeover

    Members of 60th Force Support Squadron Full Access Marketing and Balfour Beatty Communities worked together Aug. 13-14 to make the "Homecoming Home Makeover" possible in support of a deployed service member and his active-duty spouse.The $5,000 event was put together to show military appreciation by

  • Review of Rodeo 2011 scores results in several awards changes

    A programming error in the Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 scoring system resulted in a change to several major awards, one of them being the Best Air Mobility Wing. Air Mobility Command officials found the programming error Aug. 18 during a thorough scrub of all the results prior to posting the detailed

  • Reserve pilot spearheads Air Force's efforts to go green

    Lt. Col. Stan Davis from the 317th Airlift Squadron was recognized Aug. 25 for his work introducing new approach and descent procedures here at Joint Base Charleston.The historic agreement between the Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration establishes procedures for pilots called

  • NATO partnership in Libya serves as model, Panetta says

    Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Aug. 23 called U.S. support for the NATO mission that's helping opposition forces make progress against Moammar Gadhafi's regime Libya an example of the international cooperation that will be critical in the future."It is a good indication of the kind of

  • Artists cover air mobility events, places for Air Force Art Program

    In back-to-back trips, Air Mobility Command bases hosted visits by artists with the Air Force Art Program to have them document, and later recreate in their own "mind's eye," what they experienced with AMC people, planes and activities.In late-July, artists Paul Rendel of Milton, Del., and Scott

  • Air Force doubles awards earned for energy savings

    Leading the pack, team-driven excellence and noteworthy individual efforts from Air Force people earned recognition by the U.S. Department of Energy through its annual Federal Energy and Water Management Awards program. The Air Force captured almost half of the 2011 awards earned by Department of

  • Kandahar crews load F/A-18 on C-5

    For the first time in history, a U.S. cargo aircraft transported a U.S. fighter jet back to the United States after sustaining damage to its fuselage.The 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron aerial port flight assisted the C-5 Galaxy's loadmaster crew in successfully loading an F/A-18

  • AMC commander to 'Calico' wing: 'You're making a huge difference'

    Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., Air Mobility Command commander, spoke with Airmen of the 313th Air Expeditionary Wing on a recent visit to Western Europe.He spoke of the importance of the mission being fulfilled and the speed in which the call was answered."Some Airmen had four hours notification from