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  • Travis maintainers win 2006 Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award

    Team Travis received exciting news when they were notified that two of the seven 2006 Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award winners were from here. Capt. Timothy Smith, 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron operations officer and Mr. Robert Gentili, 60th AMXS Aircraft Pneudraulic Systems

  • U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center stands up at Fort Dix

    A snare drum roll accented the occasion as the colors of the Air Mobility Warfare Center were rolled up and the new flag holding the name "United States Air Force Expeditionary Center" was unfurled during a re-designation ceremony here March 5. Gen. Duncan McNabb, Air Mobility Command Commander,

  • RAF, USAF team up to fortify Royal Air Fleet

    The 436th Aerial Port Squadron and Air Mobility Command Museum teamed up with Royal Air Force St. Athan's Aircraft Recovery Transportation Flight to prepare, load and airlift a set of RAF C-130 wings here Feb. 23. The wings were transported aboard an Air Force C-5 to the United Kingdom and will be

  • Brig. Gen. Lessel kicks off Air Force 60th Anniversary speaker's symposium

    Nearly 60 years ago, Congress enacted the National Security Act of 1947. Under this law a separate entity of the military was formed: the United States Air Force. "Since then we have gone through an abundance of change," said Brig. Gen. Erwin F. "Erv" Lessel, the Air Force Director of Communication

  • 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

  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gives wounded warrior a lift home

    An injured Marine received an unexpected upgrade in his flight home from Iraq here Feb. 8. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven Eastburn from the Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe, Hawaii, was on his way home to be with his family during his recovery. One of his stops along the way was at the David Grant USAF

  • AMC commander visits, encourages Team Charleston

    The commander of Air Mobility Command visited Charleston AFB Monday to see the Airmen of the premier C-17 wing here. Team Charleston welcomed Gen. Duncan McNabb, a former Charleston squadron commander, to tour the base, get the Airmen's perspective, to see how the base executes the mission and how

  • DGMC medics deploy to Afghan hospital

    Approximately 100 Airmen from the 60th Medical Group at David Grant USAF Medical Center recently deployed to the largest military hospital in Afghanistan in support of the Global War on Terror. The 455th Expeditionary Medical Group was activated during a ceremony Jan. 23 to assume operation of the

  • Tanker recapitalization proposal released

    Air Force leaders officially released a request for proposal for a replacement tanker aircraft Jan. 30. The RFP is the official invitation to manufacturers to begin making offers to build a replacement for the Air Force's aging "Eisenhower-era" fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers, said Sue Payton, the

  • AMC bandsmen perform at Ford funeral

    Nearly 4,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guard members supported the state funeral for former President Gerald R. Ford Jan 3. Two musicians from the United States Air Force Band of Mid-America were among them. Master Sgt. Dean Smith, a Mascoutah, Ill. native, and Staff Sgt. David