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Aug. 24, 2009
Airman launches first pitch for Air Force Week Sacramento

Senior Airman Jason Childers, a 573rd Global Support Squadron personnel journeyman, throws out the first pitch at a Sacramento River Cats game Aug. 23. The first pitch was one of several events leading up to Air Force Week Sacramento 2009.
Aug. 24, 2009
Joint Readiness Training Center Exercise 09-09: Coalition Airmen offered unique IW training op

If you stumbled upon a man wearing a Middle Eastern attire, a host nation security police colonel and military officers from three coalition countries, you might actually think you are somewhere in the Middle East. However, this scene was part of irregular warfare, or IW, training at Little Rock
Aug. 24, 2009
JRTC offers unique training for AE Airmen

They can be alerted at any hour to arrive on base for hours of mission planning and preflight briefings. They must maintain flying currency requirements and pass routine check-rides. They're away from their families several weeks each year flying missions all over the world. They aren't pilots,
Aug. 24, 2009
Photo essay: AMC Airmen train in Joint Readiness Training Center Exercise 09-09

U.S. and international mobility Airmen are training in Joint Readiness Training Center Exercise 09-09 with the Army at Fort Polk, La. Members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.; aeromedical evacuation crews from Pope AFB, N.C., MacDill AFB, Fla.,
Aug. 21, 2009
AMC in action: Deployed tankers, other aircraft supporting Afghanistan elections

As Afghan voters cast their ballots in their country's second-ever presidential election, the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing provided support from above. The 380th AEW's KC-10 Extenders, U-2s, RQ-4 Global Hawks and E-3 Sentry aircraft are in the skies of Afghanistan supporting Coalition efforts to
Aug. 21, 2009
AMC in action: Teamwork by deployed Airmen keeps tankers flying

Saying it is strenuous work to maintain more than 30 aircraft, all of which were built in the Eisenhower era, in temperatures exceeding 110 degrees, is an understatement. However, through knowledge, determination and teamwork, it is just another successful day for the Airmen of the 340th Aircraft
Aug. 21, 2009
AMC in action: Flying hospital staff gives wounded fighting chance

At any given moment, a call can come in here requiring an entire aeromedical evacuation staff to stop what they are doing and begin preparing to care for the wounded and sick headed their way. With game faces on, the staff starts pulling supplies, alerting additional crewmembers, getting updates
Aug. 21, 2009
AMC in action: Airdrop fuels austere Afghan locations

The Air Force airdropped a record-breaking 3.3 million pounds of supplies into Afghanistan during the month of July. This is the most to be dropped into Afghanistan since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom and tops June's record 3.2 million pounds. The 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron,
Aug. 21, 2009
NCO from AMC's 618th TACC nominated for AFSA's top honor

A non-commissioned officer from the 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center has been nominated for the Air Force Sergeant Association International NCO of the Year Award, according to 618th TACC officials. Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Love, from the 618th TACC's Mobility Management Directorate, was nominated for
Aug. 21, 2009
Expeditionary Center instructors applying RODEO lessons learned to aerial port courses

Who says instructors can't learn a few new things? For two air transportation career field instructors at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Mobility Operations School at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., they are taking lessons they learned during Air Mobility RODEO 2009, held in July,