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

Direct support: Air Force, AMC officials in 'full support' of Army's airlift needs

The Air Force has been setting records -- airdrop records -- month after month in 2009 in Afghanistan. In June, a record 2.8 million pounds of cargo was airdropped, only to be beaten in July with 2.9 million, in August with 3.6 million, and again in September with 3.6 million pounds. That's more

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

Early morning maintenance

SERE fire circle: Students meet exotic locale in 'Tropics' phase of training at Fairchild

More than 500 miles away from Fairchild AFB, just miles from the Pacific coast, lies a tropical rainforest in the Olympic National Forest. The moisture in the air permeates your clothes and gear, and, as you trek through the rain and mud, it's almost as if it seeps through the skin to the bone. This

Plans progress for C-27J Spartan inclusion into Air Force inventory; related direct support mission plans also moving ahead

Air Force plans to include the C-27J Spartan, the latest propeller-driven airlifter planned for the Air Force inventory, are steadily progressing. In April, through Resource Management Decision 802, Defense Secretary Robert Gates moved the C-27J program and its related direct support mission from