Suicide Awareness: Relationships suffer from depression

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 20.9 million American adults suffer from a depressive illness in any given one-year period. That's a little less than 10 percent of the population. Imagine the number of people affected by depression. There are spouses, children, family

MXG Lieutenant engages enemy during fire fight

As 107mm rockets exploded against the Hescoe barriers, 1st Lt. Jacob Sullivan found himself manning the Humvee-mounted M204B machine gun from an over watch position. An hour later, close air support aircraft dropped 500-pound bombs on the enemy, ending the engagement with no friendly casualties and

More than routine maintenance

The periodic inspection dock is where the most intensive KC-135 Stratotanker inspection takes place on base. Nearly every system is checked, tested and sometimes replaced by more than 50 Airmen over an eight-day period in this dock -- it's also a classroom. During periodic inspections, Airmen from

Air mobility keeps fast pace with war ops surges

Squadrons across the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing have increased operations to enhance theater-wide support for the current surge of troops throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. One such example is the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron, a 379th AEW tenant unit that links air mobility operations

Boomers help keep the fighters flying

The KC-135 Stratotanker helps the Air Force accomplish its mission by providing gas to aircraft during flight. To accomplish its mission, this fuel station in the sky uses an operator with a very unique job who goes by the name of "Boom." He or she is the tanker's boom operator. Staff Sgt. Larry

Deputy assistant secretary of defense visits Fairchild

Remembrance Tree

Fairchild deployed Airman promoted to Chief

New combat squadron stands up at Little Rock AFB

The 41st Airlift Squadron became the newest member of Air Mobility Command's 463rd Airlift Group here in a ceremony April 6 as they added a new accomplishment to their resume--being named the first active-duty combat C-130J squadron in the Air Force. The Black Cats bring a distinguished history to

Air Force loadmaster maxes 10,000-hour mark

An 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron loadmaster now wears a badge of distinction that very few loadmasters receive -- an Air Mobility Command custom patch displaying the number 10,000. After 25 years of service, Master Sgt. Joseph Maxey surpassed 10,000 flying hours April 3 during an airlift