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NEWS

  • When it comes to contamination, communication is key

    For the first time since 2008, the 628th Medical Clinic conducted a joint certification course with Decon L.L.C., including an intensive, three day patient decontamination exercise.   Though decontamination training occurs annually, certified Decon L.L.C. instructor Susan Osborne facilitated the

  • Military Health System officials visit Fairchild

    Department of Defense healthcare officials met with 92nd Medical Group leadership to discuss progress of the Military Health System Genesis program Sept. 7, 2016.MHS Genesis is a Department of Defense electronic healthcare record system designed to give military medical professionals improved access

  • Citizen Airman supports Air Force’s newest tanker

    Senior Airman Victoria Montgomery, 446th Logistics Readiness Flight inventory management journeyman, integrates with active duty, supports F-16 missions for certifying refueling with KC-46A Pegasus.

  • Airman laid to rest after being shot down in 1965

    Fifty one years; 18,615 days; 446,760 hours-that is how long his family went without answers, without closure. No longer is he missing in action; now, he is home.Fifty one years to the day that his F-105D Thunderchief was shot down over North Vietnam, the remains of Maj. Dean Klenda were laid to

  • Scott AFB youth earns prestigious leadership award

    The 2016-2017 Illinois Military Youth of the Year and Midwest Regional Military Youth of the Year, presented by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, was awarded to a 17-year-old military daughter of two service members.Kayla Jenkins was selected from nine finalists for leading, succeeding, and

  • C-17 loadmasters receive honors at A/TA’s Hall of Fame Walkway

    The Airlift/Tanker Association hosted a ceremony to honor a team of six C-17A Pathfinder loadmasters by unveiling their medallion on its Hall of Fame Walkway here Sept. 8. The six loadmasters and their unique backgrounds were critical to ensuring that the one-loadmaster aircrew concept became a

  • 15 years later, remembering 9/11

    Sun. Sept. 11, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was planned and executed by Islamic extremist organization, Al-Qaeda, and ultimately led to the ongoing “Global War on Terrorism.” For the Patriot Day retreat ceremony, Fairchild members

  • Aerial porters set airlift record

    The 721st Aerial Port Squadron, which is part of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, set a record July 27 for the heaviest cargo loaded onto a commercial aircraft in support of a channel mission. The aerial porters planned and packed 120 tons construction material

  • Air Force, Army planners find ways to see greater jump in airdrops

    An arriving C-130 Hercules taxies to a large hangar where about 60 Army paratroopers wait to board. Lugging about 100 pounds of gear, the Soldiers quickly line up and load into the aircraft as its four idling engines blow hot gusts over the tarmac. Minutes later, the plane is flying at 150 mph and

  • Newly activated unit guides transient aircraft on joint missions

    Any aircraft that flies into Pope Army Airfield, Col. Kelly Holbert will know about it. But Holbert’s unit, the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, has no aircraft of its own. As the only en route operations group in the continental U.S., the unit manages transient aircraft and the joint missions