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  • Remembering the Fallen Air Advisors

    Service members, civilians, and family members from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst gathered at the Air Advisor memorial, April 27, to honor the memories of the 11 Air Advisors who have fallen in the line of duty.

  • The Air Force is becoming more Agile – one project at a time

    The term ‘Agile’ has been on the lips of Department of Defense senior leaders with increasing frequency recently – often citing its importance for developing functional, innovative software that better equips the warfighter to respond to uncertain and ever-changing environments.While the private

  • Unit Deployment Managers prepare Airmen for wartime efforts

    Whether providing humanitarian aid or projecting unrivaled combat airpower, the need to move the Air Force’s most valued asset, the Airmen, is paramount, and each step in that journey requires a trusted liaison: a unit deployment manager.

  • Fairchild prepped, ready to receive additional KC-135s

    U.S. Air Force officials announced April 9 that Fairchild Air Force Base has been approved as the new home for 12 additional KC-135 Stratotankers, which will begin arriving from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, in fiscal year 2020.

  • Military, civilians band together for domestic threat response training

    The 628th Security Forces Squadron partnered with Citadel cadets, as well as the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office S.W.A.T. and Marine Patrol teams for a joint training exercise April 12, 2019, on Naval Weapons Station Charleston, Joint Base Charleston, S.C.The intent of the operation was to

  • Scott STEAM Day event challenges students to think big

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Over 450 students from Illinois and Missouri traveled to Scott AFB for the annual STEAM Day, celebrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.Hosted by the 375th Air Mobility Wing, the event featured over 40 booths displaying different missions from around

  • STEAM day fuels, inspires thousands

    MacDill Air Force Base opened its hangar doors for more than 2,300 students for the second annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) Day, March 8, 2019.

  • X-STEM at Travis event inspires region’s students

    The scene of a middle school science fair is universal. A packed auditorium, teachers shuffling from project to project busily writing notes on a clipboard and the ever-present smell of vinegar from a volcano project that used way too much baking soda. Something they don’t usually have? A C-17