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  • Air Mobility Rodeo 2007: Security forces Rodeo teams tested by the best

    When it comes to adding realism to Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 security forces tactics competition, the Airmen testing the competitors are among the best the Air Force has to offer. The approximately 30 role players and coordination and support staff for the tactics competition come from all over the

  • International observers look to Rodeo for techniques, knowledge

    Operational requirements and limited resources might have kept some international teams out of the competition, but these restraints have not kept some international air forces from participating in the Air Mobility Command Rodeo 2007 at McChord AFB. More than 20 countries, spanning six continents,

  • AMC vice commander visits Travis, discusses VPP

    The vice commander of Air Mobility Command visited Travis July 18 to highlight the Air Force's Voluntary Protection Program. During his short visit, Lt. Gen. Christopher Kelly emphasized to unit commanders and safety staff the importance of using the industry-proven principles of VPP to reduce

  • Saddling up: McConnell's Rodeo teams get ready to move em out

    From the Kansas runway to the skies of Washington, McConnell's mobility operations skills will be fine-tuned before a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker touches ground at the 2007 Air Mobility Command Rodeo competition, July 22-28 at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. McConnell's Rodeo teams are

  • 18th AF leaders confer at Dover

    More than 100 senior leaders from 12 Air Mobility Command wings, three AMC groups, two expeditionary mobility task forces and the Tanker Airlift Control Center met here Tuesday through Thursday to discuss a variety of topics currently affecting the 18th Air Force. The 18th Air Force Commanders and

  • 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

  • Course prepares mobility team leaders in deployment command and control

    Of the 57 in-residence and on-line courses offered in the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Mobility Operations School, one course targets future leaders in mobility command and control. The Mobility Air Forces Mobile Command and Control Leadership Course, offered in four sessions a year with 16

  • Travis major wins AF Band Officer of the Year

    The commander of the USAF Band of the Golden West here recently won the Air Force Band Officer of the Year for 2006. Maj. Richard Mench led a 60-member band who had 425 performances throughout the western United States and recorded a "War of Remembrance" album. "Over my 24-year career, Major Mench

  • Grand Forks AFB medical group lassos quality training

    The 319th Medical Group demonstrated their medical expertise, skills and training during a multi-event contingency operations competition in both daylight and lowlight here May 18. The competition, dubbed the "Med Group Rodeo," gave medical personnel from many backgrounds the opportunity to put