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  • Convoy reduction flights keep Airmen out of harm's way

    Convoys transporting Airmen and supplies on the highways of Iraq face a constant risk from terrorist attacks. In an effort to reduce the number of convoys going out, the 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron performs regular airlift convoy reduction missions out of Balad Air Base, Iraq. The focus of

  • Base transitions to standardized emergency response system

    By 2009, all Air Force installations will respond to emergencies, both during peacetime and wartime, using the same system civilian agencies implemented more than 30 years ago. Fortunately, the base's close ties with the local community will expedite the transition and make it easier. Under the Air

  • DGMC receives top DoD Team Performance Award

    David Grant USAF Medical Center has been honored with the 2006 Team Performance Patient Safety Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in creating a safer patient environment. The award, presented at the 2007 Military Health System conference in Washington, D.C., is the highest honor within

  • Survival School Search and Rescue team rescues North Idaho man

    A nine-person Search and Rescue team from the United States Air Force Survival School here rescued a man near Kellogg, Idaho, Feb. 9 after a snowmobiling accident in which the man was injured after falling from a 25-foot cliff. The SAR team arrived at the Cemetery Ridge trailhead at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

  • Civilian historian deploys to Southwest Asia

    In 2005, the Air Force began transitioning historian positions from active-duty to civilian servicemembers. The transition ends with this fiscal year, and now that the turnover is almost complete, life for those civilian historians is starting to look more "active" than ever. Dennis Pinner, 336th

  • History Channel uses Fairchild KC-135's for "Military Movers II"

    Earplugs were in place, seat buckles were pulled tight and jackets were zipped high as passengers prepared for takeoff on a KC-135 Stratotanker training flight Feb. 8. Accompanying the Stratotanker crew members were a producer, camerawoman and soundman sent by The History Channel to take footage and

  • Feds thank RAVENs for role in Lebanon evacuation

    Air Mobility Command's premier security forces were recognized by the Federal Air Marshal Service during a ceremony Feb. 12 at the base theater. Master Sgt. Shawn Larkin, superintendent of PHOENIX RAVEN and contingency operations for AMC, accepted the FAMS' appreciation award on behalf of his

  • 18th Air Force commander sees 20-year progress at Fairchild

    In 1983, a young officer was transferred to Fairchild Air Force Base as a Strategic Air Command B-52 crew member. Assigned to what was then called the 92nd Bomb Wing, he and his wife spent three years at Fairchild. That young officer returned this week; he's now Maj. Gen. James Hawkins, 18th Air

  • Airmen deployed to Eagle Flag build tents in tough conditions

    Nearly 400 Airmen deployed to support the fictional "421st Air Expeditionary Group" here for Eagle Flag 07-3 are simulating a real world war zone and being tested on their ability to conduct airfield operations and build an air base. Part of that effort is building the "tent city" for all the

  • Last-minute call leads to unplanned refueling mission

    A late night call, a cancelled sortie and flexibility led an aircrew from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron here to expedite medical care for more than a dozen severely injured troops being transported from Iraq to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Feb. 7. According to Capt. Brent Toth, 100th