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  • CASF brings injured service members to higher-level care

    "Ten minutes out" is the message that propels the medical team into action. Knowing their predetermined roles -- CASF staff and volunteers arrive at the awaiting aircraft to quickly and carefully offload patients to the ambulance buses. For some patients, this is a place to receive quick treatment

  • McConnell spouses take on 'Operation Holiday Surprise'

    It's not Christmas yet, but that didn't stop the McConnell Enlisted Spouses from presenting more than 200 McConnell Airmen and families from receiving an early gift Dec. 15, 2011, at the base commissary.The gift was part of "Operation Holiday Surprise." The event was a no notice surprise available

  • KC-10 cargo load training facility opens doors

    A new KC-10 cargo load training facility has opened here. The structure, officials say, is the first of its kind in the Air Force as a facility for cargo load training on the KC-10 Extender did not exist before. The building allows Airmen to train on cargo loading without an aircraft.Before the

  • Racquetball: Good for your mind and your body

    Senior Master Sgt. Jerry Turley is the 618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) logistics readiness superintendent. On a day-to-day basis he is busy providing maintenance recovery support to all Air Mobility Command's tasked aircraft that require repairs while they are

  • Airlift group prepares for tomorrow's disasters today

    "We train to save lives and answer the nation's call at a moment's notice, so others may prevail," said Col. Dan P. Dagher, 317th Airlift Group commander.The C-130 delivers hope not only to service members, but to families in other countries through medical evacuation, humanitarian missions and

  • 92nd CES explosive ordnance disposal personnel have safety day

    The 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight began their Air Force Headquarters-directed safety day Nov. 15 with a 5K Ruck March to commemorate and increase awareness about the Airmen EOD has lost through the years. "The toll on the EOD career field has been significant,"

  • Family lounge unveiled at Travis AFB terminal

    A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. to introduce the Travis' passenger terminal new family lounge.In March, the PAX terminal leadership held a video teleconference with Air Mobility Command staff and received guidance from Gen. Raymond Johns, Air Mobility Command commander, that he

  • New, improved Attic opens doors to JB MDL

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst volunteers recently renovated the previously named Airmen's Attic to improve the look and accessibility of items for servicemembers and their families. Volunteers opened the doors to The Attic Oct. 24."The items used to be scattered across the room with no real sense

  • Air Force 'Tops in Blue' touches down at McChord

    More than 50 years ago then Maj. Al Reilly had an idea- build an Air Force-wide competition different from the many athletic competitions already thriving throughout the service, make it based on creative talent, and then use what he found to entertain other Airmen and their families around the