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  • 446th AES trains for casualty movement

    When personnel are injured in Afghanistan, help is no farther away than a medic's tactical field care, a nine-line medevac request, and a helicopter flight to a forward operating base. Depending on the severity of an injury, a wounded service member may be sent to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

  • EC honors veteran military painter

    Everyone in John Witt's art has a name, and every piece of art has a story. In fact, John Witt himself has a story, though he's reluctant to talk much about the man behind the latest contributions to Air Force Art Program's collection at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center, March 15, 2013, here.

  • Services train together

    Travis Airmen and Army National Guard Soldiers wrapped-up a joint forces service exercise March 22.Airmen from the 21st and 301st Airlift Squadron loaded eight soldiers and four Humvees from the 49th Military Police Brigade onto a C-17 Globemaster III en route to Moses Lake, Wash. for a simulated

  • Congress reviews reserve forces equipment needs

    Senior Army and Air Force leaders for the Reserve and National Guard were on Capitol Hill to testify March 19 and answer questions about updating and replacing their combat-worn equipment.Chairman Michael Turner, R-Ohio, and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., led the hearing at the House Armed Services

  • DOD requires more base closings, official says

    The Defense Department possesses more real estate than it needs and is looking to close additional bases and installations in the United States and abroad, a senior DOD official told a House panel March 14.Air Force leaders agree, according to Kathleen I. Ferguson, acting assistant secretary of the

  • 621st CRW Airmen, 690th RPOE fine-tune skills at Eagle Flag

    Approximately 120 members from the 621st Contingency Response Wing stationed at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., and fifty 690th Rapid Port Opening Element Soldiers from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., sharpened their Joint Task Force-Port Opening skills during Exercise Eagle Flag 13-1 at Joint Base

  • Dempsey: Tuition assistance cuts due to readiness shortfalls

    Tuition assistance was a hot-button issue during a town hall session between Marines and their families and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff here March 21.The first question for Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey was about the program. The Marine Corps, Army and Air Force had eliminated the

  • 18th AF commander visits McChord

    Lt. Gen. Darren McDew, 18th Air Force commander, visited here March 14-15 to observe the 62nd Airlift Wing's unique missions firsthand and to talk to the wing's Airmen about their ideas, issues and challenges. While here, McDew visited various units and facilities and met with Airmen to discuss some

  • Wyoming Air National Guardsmen train to save lives in the air

    A C-130 Hercules serenely flies high above the snowy prairies of Wyoming on a typical chilly March morning. Inside, the aircraft is a hive of activity as flight nurses and medical technicians of the187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron start IVs, monitor a burn victim, and don aircrew oxygen masks -

  • Air Force suspends military tuition assistance

    In the wake of sequestration, the Air Force officially suspended military tuition assistance March 11.Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley announced the Air Force has officially suspended military TA for the remainder of fiscal 2013. The program will continue to be evaluated to determine the