Team Dover takes possession of new C-17

The first C-17 Globemaster III to be assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Del., is finally in the hands of a Team Dover crew and will arrive on base Monday.The Dover crew, along with delivery official Brig. Gen. Alfred Stewart, 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force commander, McGuire AFB, took

Match Up game kicks off

It's your chance to win big--big like a car, a cruise or cash. These are just a few of the 12,000-plus prizes Air Mobility Command is handing out to this year's MatchUP game winners. The annual game, which runs June 1 through Aug. 31, is an AMC Services awareness event, and 92nd Services Squadron

Inactivation means end of an era

The 911th Air Refueling Squadron here will be officially inactivated during a ceremony scheduled for June 8, here. This inactivation is one of the base's first major steps in realigning due to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure announcement. The squadron's lineage can be traced back to 1917 as

Dover crew tours Boeing's Long Beach, Calif. C-17 production facility

Milford ceremony honors Delaware's fallen

Army Spc. Ryan Long Army Sgt. Jarrett Thompson Army Staff Sgt. Josphen Garyants Marine Cpl. Richard Clifton Army Cpl. Stephen McGowan Marine Lance Cpl. Russell White Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Roberts Marine Sgt. Brian McGinnis Army Capt. Ralph Harting Army Sgt. 1st Class James Moudy Marine Cpl. Cory

Engineers garner DoD award

Dover Air Force Base was recently named the winner of the 2006 Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron garnered the recognition at Department of Defense level for managing the best Environmental Restoration Program in the DoD. "Earlier this year, Dover

Dover AFB aircrew makes monumental California trip

With much anticipation, a combined flight crew from the 436th and 512th Airlift Wings departed Dover Air Force Base Tuesday for Long Beach, Calif., where they will assume ownership of the base' s first C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from Boeing Thursday. After years of planning and preparation, the

Under the Influence

Air Guard civil engineers are lead unit in Baghdad

Approximately 25 civil engineers from the 141st Air Refueling Wing, Washington Air National Guard are engaged in their mission to construct, maintain and repair the airfield and base operating support facilities for Sather Air Base, Iraq. Sather is located at the Bagdad Airport and is known as the

Travis major wins AF Band Officer of the Year

The commander of the USAF Band of the Golden West here recently won the Air Force Band Officer of the Year for 2006. Maj. Richard Mench led a 60-member band who had 425 performances throughout the western United States and recorded a "War of Remembrance" album. "Over my 24-year career, Major Mench