National testing center opens at Travis

In continuing to seek out new ways to better serve and help Travis Airmen with their educational goals, the Travis Education Center recently opened their new on-base National Testing Center. The center, established with University of Maryland College, is free to military members. It provides 34

Airman earns one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Awards

It's not every day the average Airman receives a phone call at home from a four-star general, but a Charleston Air Force Base staff sergeant assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron is no average Airman. Staff Sgt. Richard Rose Jr., aerial combat photographer, had just come in from cutting his

SERE Challenge tests skills of Air Force's "Guardian Angels"

A pair of water survival instructors assigned here earned the Col. Bud Day trophy Thursday as winners of the 2007 SERE Challenge -- a physically grueling and mentally exhausting competition among some of the Air Force's elite special operators. Staff Sgt. Michael Garcia and Staff Sgt. Matthew Zimmer

APS trains hard to earn trophy

Editor's note: This is the second in a four part series of articles highlighting McChord's Rodeo 2007 competitors. It's been less than 18 months since the bellows of training instructors stopped ringing in his ears, yet Airman 1st Class Shawn Brown already has one trip to Iraq behind him. His

C-27J Spartan named as Joint Cargo Aircraft

The U. S. Army announced a $2.04 billion contract award June 13 to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems for their C-27J Spartan to be the Joint Cargo Aircraft. This JCA program is a combined Air Force and Army effort to have an airframe that will meet warfighter needs for intratheater airlift.

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Maintenance prepares for Air Mobility Rodeo 2007

Eighteen Fairchild Airmen are working some major overtime right now, all to show the world they're the best at what they do. Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 is fast approaching and local teams are training at their hardest. The biennial competition, which takes place July 22-28 at McChord Air Force Base,

Precision airdrops deliver directly to battlefield

Water, food and ammunition are only useful if they make it to the people who need them. Fortunately for battlefield Airmen, Soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan these supplies are flown in using the Joint Precision Airdrop System. C-17 Globemaster IIIs at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing are

Charleston's Airmen make a difference AMC wide

Charleston transformed the way Air Mobility Command did business May 1. One of Charleston's charter initiatives was to scrutinize our primary mission -- launching C-17s. During the initial implementation of the Sequence of Events initiative, the team's objective was to reduce the time required by

Air Mobility Command reaches 'R and R' milestone

An ATA Airlines L-1011 touched down on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport tarmac at 8:50 a.m. June 12, bringing home the 500,000th passenger since the the U.S. Central Command's Rest and Recuperation Leave Program and Air Mobility Command's R and R flight operations began in 2003. Maj. Gen.