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  • Web site to open sign-ups for Post-9/11 GI Bill transfers

    The Defense Department signed off June 22 on policies and procedures servicemembers will use to transfer their unused Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to their spouses or children, a Pentagon official said June 23.Eligible servicemembers will be able to register their immediate family members to receive

  • Airmen see base's future first-hand

    A small contingent of Grand Forks Airmen departed theJune 25 en route to the unveiling ceremony of the Block 40 Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System at Air Force Site 42 in Palmdale, Calif.Led by Col. Joseph Douez, 319th Mission Support Group commander, seven Airmen disembarked a KC-135 Stratotanker

  • 36th Rescue Flight makes 634th save

    What started out as a day of hiking in the cathedral-esque mountains just west of Wenatchee, Wash., turned into a nightmare for a local 58-year-old man and his son at around 3 p.m. June 14. One misplaced step sent the 58-year old man tumbling more than 1,000 feet down a mountain in an avalanche

  • AMC announces impact of FY2010 Force Structure Realignments

    Air Mobility Command officials announced today its overall net impact, after considering all pluses and minus, is an additional 1,029 personnel authorizations, plus delivery of 14 additional C-17s and 3 additional C-130Js as part of the Air Force's Fiscal Year 2010 Force Structure Announcement.The

  • AMC commander sends Fourth of July message

    With the 233rd birthday of our great nation's independence rapidly approaching, we prepare to celebrate our freedom with family and friends. Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we have been vigilant in defending our ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Air Mobility

  • AMXS Airman takes down irate airline passenger

    "I want to slit the captain's throat," is not what passengers want to hear an irate man, pacing up and down the aisles on an airline flight, shout over and over again. However, in the face of this peril on an international commercial flight to Italy, this is what one Dover Air Force Base mechanic

  • Airman earns $10,000 through IDEA program

    In these tough economic times, workers around the nation struggle to find ways to earn extra income simply to make ends meet. Through the Innovative Development through Employee Awareness, or IDEA, Program, an Airman from Little Rock Air Force Base turned a good idea into an extra $10,000. Tech Sgt.

  • Airman selected as Thunderbird flight surgeon

    When the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, "Thunderbirds" announced officer selections for the 2010 demonstration season, a Little Rock Air Force Base captain was just what the doctor ordered ... literally. Capt. (Dr.) Thomas Bowden, 62nd Airlift Squadron flight surgeon, was picked

  • HYDRA '09 prepares Airmen for real-world emergencies

    Members of the 615th Contingency Response Wing and 15 other units from around the United States joined together this week to participate in HYDRA '09. The joint exercise is the 615th CRW's most comprehensive training event, organized to allow Airmen to hone their skills and enhance command, control

  • Denton Program makes humanitarian missions possible

    Members of the 437th Aerial Port Squadron here loaded the 26,000-pound heart of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine onto a C-17 from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., headed to Argentina June 17. The MRI equipment was donated to a hospital in Salta, Argentina, by Washington University's School of