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  • Scott AFB organization participates in Domestic Violence Awareness Month

    With October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Scott AFB Family Advocacy Program held a number of classes during the month to help military members and their families understand the realities of domestic violence and offered preventative education as well. Not only did they

  • AMC's Scott AFB receives award for energy conservation

    Scott AFB was recently awarded $75,000 as first runner-up in an Air Mobility Command energy conservation contest. Elizabeth Toftemark, 375th Civil Engineer Squadron energy manager, said the base earned the award for its energy use reduction initiatives. "We won runner up because of all of the

  • Scott AFB celebrates Year of the Air Force Family

    One of the Air Force's top priorities is taking care of its Airmen and their families and to further ensure that this is taken care of, the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force have designated July 2009-July 2010 Year of the Air Force Family, or YoAFF. Furthermore, November

  • Professional development course focuses Airmen

    In today's Air Force, professional development is key to sustaining mission capability and advancement. At the Enlisted Professional Enhancement Center, Airmen from different Air Force specialty codes came together Friday to attend a quarterly Airmen Enhancement Program designed to revisit

  • Joint base Airmen restore historical aircraft

    The traffic circle at the McGuire passenger terminal buzzed with new activity Oct. 23 as Airmen from the 305th and 514th Maintenance Groups prepared to clip the wings off the C-118 Liftmaster that has guarded the entrance to the terminal since 1982. The maintenance groups on McGuire have set out to

  • Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst airlift unit deploys, families bid farewell

    Family members were joined by 305th Air Mobility Wing and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst leadership, as they bid farewell Oct. 26 to 6th Airlift Squadron Airmen departing for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. A farewell ceremony was held at the base's passenger terminal to mark the

  • Contingency response Airmen build partnership capability in Egypt

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing bolstered Egypt's ability to mobilize its troops by training 20 Egyptian airborne soldiers on U.S. airlift operations and cargo loading procedures during 2009's Bright Star exercise in Cairo, Egypt, from Oct. 9 to 21. As the Air Force builds

  • Photo essay: C-130 Hercules airdrops Navy special warfare watercraft

    A U.S. Navy special warfare 11-meter rigid-hull inflatable boat was launched from an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft during a successful launch of the Maritime Craft Aerial Deployment System on Oct. 14, 2009, over the the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. Special Warfare

  • Photo essay: C-17 maintainer at work at Charleston

    Maintenance technicians at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., work around the clock every day to keep the 437th and 315th Airlift Wings' fleet of C-17 Globmaster IIIs flying. The base supports Air Mobility Command's airlift, airdrop and aeromedical evacuation missions around the world through the