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  • Air Force Network Integration Center is 'home plate' for tech expertise

    Gen. William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, and his wife, Linda, visited the Air Force Network Integration Center Jan. 25 to meet with Airmen and learn more about the center's role in his command's cyberspace mission.As part of the visit, the general held a commander's call during

  • Firefighter saves elderly couple at McConnell

    Casting personal safety aside, one McConnell firefighter rescued a local elderly couple from a potential disaster Jan. 30, 2011.The rescue was performed by Senior Airman Jared Adams, 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, who was off duty at the time. While driving by a home on South Greenwich

  • Air mobility key to outpost sustainability in Afghanistan

    To small military outposts strategically placed throughout Afghanistan's most rugged landscape, air mobility is the key to mission success."We have outposts all over the place here," said Army Lt. Col. David Preston, Support Battalion for Task Force Currahee. "Our guys are bedded down in some of the

  • C-17s deliver largest OEF fuel resupply in Afghanistan

    Three C-17 Globemaster IIIs carrying 120 bundles dropped the largest resupply of fuel ever to a remote military outpost in Afghanistan.Throughout the span of two days, Jan. 29 through 30, Soldiers hustled to collect the pallets, store them and then prepare for the next C-17 pass."When these drops

  • KC-135s make Red Flag possible at Nellis AFB

    Red Flag 11-2 is a large force exercise requiring many units to work together like a well-oiled machine, and if one piece were taken out, the whole operation would grind to a halt.A large and important cog in the Red Flag machine is the combined effort of four KC-135 Stratotanker units."We're

  • Mobility Airmen keep steady air refueling pace in 2010 for deployed ops

    Throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the pace in the air refueling business for mobility Airmen remained steady throughout 2010.According to statistics from U.S. Air Forces Central's Combined Air Operations Center in Southwest Asia, air refueling aircraft offloaded more than

  • Air Force announces court-martial sentence for former command chief

    The week-long court-martial of Chief Master Sgt. William Gurney, the former command chief of Air Force Materiel Command, concluded today with a six-member panel of male officers sentencing the chief to 20 months confinement, reduction to rank of E-1 and a dishonorable discharge for 15 violations of