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  • Through Airmen's Eyes: Triumph of survival

    (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories and commentaries focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)In 1995 in America, most six-year-old boys spent their days picking on six-year-old girls, or mimicking and idolizing the Power Rangers

  • National Guard mourns loss of four Airmen

    The 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina Air National Guard is mourning the loss of four Air National Guard Airmen, and the serious injury of two others, after their C-130 Hercules crashed in southwestern South Dakota approximately 6:30 p.m. Mountain time July 1."We are deeply saddened that four

  • Scott AFB Passenger Terminal dedicated to fallen Airman

    Members of Team Scott and the local community gathered July 6 at the Passenger Terminal as Scott Air Force Base dedicated its newly renovated Air Passenger Termial in honor of Airman 1st Class Zachary "Cudde" Cuddeback.Cuddeback was a vehicle operator assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air

  • 515th AMOW takes on resilience training In the Pacific

    The 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing graduated 12 students through the first Resilience Trainer Assistant's Course at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 19-21. As part of the wing's Comprehensive Airmen Fitness efforts, the class focused on an Air Force of balanced, healthy,

  • N.C. Air National Guard releases names of C-130 crash victims

    Four Airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 belonging to the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., crashed Sunday evening while fighting a woodland fire in Southwestern

  • Panetta commends Jacoby for NORTHCOM fire assistance

    In an afternoon call to the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta commended Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr. for leading the Defense Department's effort to support the fight against Colorado's raging wildfires.The secretary also commended National Guard and NORTHCOM

  • McChord Reserve maintainer helps repair damaged C-17

    A 141-ton, $180 million C-17 Globemaster III departs the snow-covered runway at a critical Forward Operating Base in the combat zone. The position of the aircraft blocks the runway and prevents other aircraft from landing, thereby limiting re-supply options. It is clear that the aircraft must be

  • 82nd Sustainment Brigade Riggers Assist Air Force JPADS Drop

    82nd Sustainment Brigade soldiers and airmen with the 820th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers participated in a joint Army/Air Force Operation involving the Joint Precision Airdrop System at Nellis Air Force Base June 16.In addition to the JPADS, paratroopers also

  • Sole AF Contingency Response Wing conducts change of command ceremony

    Col. Martin A. Chapin took command of the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Col. Chris B. Patterson in a ceremony June 28 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Chapin comes to the 621st CRW by way of Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where he served as vice wing commander, 521st Air Mobility

  • Charleston Airman lives to tell of war: earns two medals

    Staff Sgt. Douglas Ryan, 628th Explosive Ordnance Disposal noncommissioned officer in charge of training, stands at attention in front of the entire 628th Civil Engineer Squadron, his wife and a major general, about to have a Bronze Star and Air Force Combat Action Medal pinned to his chest, June 27