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  • Sergeant Gray - AMC Honor Guard Program Manager of the Year

    Master Sgt. David Gray, Scott Air Force Base Honor Guard superintendent, was named Air Mobility Command's 2009 Honor Guard Program Manager of the Year.During 2009 Sergeant Gray orchestrated 2,000 Honor Guard missions and directed Honor Guard teams spanning 110,000 square miles and six states. He led

  • Inspectors say 43rd AW Logistics Capabilities are Excellent

    The long wait is over, and the results are in. Team Pope's logistics functions are excellent, and the numbers prove it. A group of inspectors from the Logistics Compliance Assessment Program was directed to visit the 43rd Airlift Wing June 14 through 19 to evaluate Airmen's ability to perform their

  • CGOs help cadets understand active duty through 'Ops Air Force'

    Cadets from the U.S. Air Force Academy and Reserve Officer Training Corps from various detachments are visiting Pope to gain an appreciation of how operations and support functions integrate and contribute to successful accomplishment of a wing's mission. Operation Air Force is a three-week summer

  • MacDill anti-terrorism program named best in AMC

    The work of the MacDill Anti Terrorism Unit can easily go unnoticed, which is a good thing considering the objective is to make sure every day is routine and uneventful. Air Mobility Command has taken notice, however, recently awarding the MacDill unit with the Best Anti Terrorism Program - Fixed

  • EC celebrates ASAM class of 2010

    Sixteen majors graduated in front of family and friends from the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Advanced Study of Air Mobility program in the Grace Peterson Hall here June 18.The ceremony was the culmination of a 13-month long course for officers who are instrumental in advancing the Air

  • Army brigade says goodbye to Team Travis

    With a cry of "saddle up," the Rough Riders from the 402nd Field Artillery Brigade Division West bid farewell to Travis Air Force Base during a flag casing ceremony June 11. The ceremony marked an end to a 12-year stay for the brigade, whose mission is executing post-mobilization training for select

  • Guardsmen keep planes flying

    When a C-130 that landed in Salerno, Afghanistan, suffered damage due to small rocks in the gravel, it was brought to Bagram Airfield June 17 for repairs."A light was cracked, a propeller was chipped and there was damage to the main landing gear, the fuselage and some of the structure," said Senior

  • Loadmaster travels the globe, delivers supplies

    "Been there, done that."It's Staff Sgt. Kevin Alexander's mantra.As a loadmaster from the 6th Airlift Squadron from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Sergeant Alexander travels approximately 200 days out the the year."You name a location, and I have probably been there or point to anything

  • Scott sergeant provides comfort for wounded warriors

    Sundays around Germany are normally quiet and reserved as a day for rest, except for the hum of a C-17 Globemaster III and the conversations between aeromedical evacuation personnel heard on the flightline of Ramstein Air Base. Those are the sounds of lives being saved.Three times a week, 40 to 50

  • Photo essay: Tanker cousins support air refueling ops in Southwest Asia

    A KC-135R Stratotanker deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., and a KC-10 Extender deployed from Travis AFB, Calif., are seen on the flightline operations area for the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on June 2, 2010. Both airframes support deployed air