Award-winning Dover AFB housing is benchmark of AMC, AF

As a wrecking ball shatters the last of Dover Air Force Base's old housing and the fresh-paint smell still lingers on many new units, a team of winners departs the base and heads for the Rocky Mountains where a prestigious award awaits them. The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron housing management team,

Dover international model for AFSO 21, hosts RAF visit

Team Dover shone under the spotlight recently as U.S. Air Force and British Royal Air Force (RAF) dignitaries toured the base to get a first-hand look at the Dover "Lean" initiatives, which have put Dover Air Force Base on the international map. Visiting the base were Royal Air Force Air

Ready for anything

SECDEF visits Team Charleston

Getting (and staying) green

The environmental flight here is top notch, and they can prove it. The team brought home three individual awards, one team award and one flight award at Air Mobility Command level for performance in 2007. But it doesn't stop there. The flight went on to receive the Pollution Prevention Acquisition

Deployed McGuire Airman maintains supply

Airmen airdrop 80,000 pounds of food, supplies for Afghans

Airmen of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here airdropped nearly 80,000 pounds of food and water through the Afghan sky Jan. 14 as part of humanitarian efforts in the region. The supplies were pushed out the backdoor of a C-17 Globemaster III and the cargo landed at the feet of

Tactical airlift key to winning war on terrorism

For every 24 tons of cargo airlifted in Iraq, a supply truck and two troops are spared a trip on a dangerous road. For every 50 passengers airlifted, one more busload of servicemembers is also spared from Iraq's dangerous roads. Members of the 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron moves everything

McConnell Airmen's actions in Iraq earn him Bronze Star

Second Lt. Jack D. McGonegal, 23, 22nd Security Forces Squadron, was awarded a Bronze Star medal, Nov. 29, during a ceremony here for his leadership actions while deployed. While on deployment from November 2006 through August 2007, at Camp Bucca, Iraq with the 886th Expeditionary Security Forces

Pope Airman wins Sijan award

A Pope Airman has been awarded the 2007 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award for distinguished leadership. Capt. Stewart Parker, 21st Special Tactics Squadron, was named the junior officer category winner for the coveted award. Captain Parker led a team of combat controllers into combat in Iraq