Military Kids Face Off at White House T-Ball Event

President Bush honored military children June 23 as he kicked off the 2006 "T-Ball on the South Lawn" series at the White House with two teams of military Little Leaguers. Five- and 6-year-olds from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., competed in a

AMC to begin command-wide streamlined competition

Lt. Gen. Christopher A. Kelly, vice commander, Air Mobility Command, announced Wednesday a streamlined competition of command-wide aerial delivery functions. The streamlined competition has a potential impact on 93 enlisted positions at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.; Dyess AFB, Texas; McChord AFB,

Mighty Hercules

Tankers keep 'em flying at Valiant Shield

C-130 aircrew evacuates girl on Father's Day

When Maj. Wayne Vaughn looked down at the injured 12-year-old girl clinging to life on a litter loaded in his C-130 Hercules, he thought, "How can they do this? How can they try and kill a little girl?" Taliban extremists had bombed a girls school in Herat in eastern Afghanistan on June 18, killing

Thirty-eight years later, still going strong

Thirty-eight years after the C-5 Galaxy took its maiden flight, June 30, 1968, it marks another significant milestone. Monday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., the C-5M made its First Flight right on schedule. A rollout ceremony for the first of 111 C-5Ms was held on May 16 at the Marietta plant.

Hercules lifts off

Hercules’ Labors - 777th EAS moves C-130s in first role at forward-deployed base

On the west side of Balad, formations of burned-out, mangled humvee frames bake and bleach in the sun, their remnants so twisted they seem to writhe in their dusty graveyard. “You can still see blood in some of them,” said Lt. Col Dan Dagher, shaking his head. For Colonel Dagher, 777th Expeditionary

Medical care in the air

It was only a 30-minute flight from Bagram to Salerno, Afghanistan, and the C-130 Hercules carried four pallets and two passengers. When it returned, that 30-minute flight proved to be just one leg of a longer aeromedical evacuation mission that would eventually take two wounded Soldiers to

Zarqawi air strike shows aerial flexibility, general says

The attack that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi demonstrates the flexibility that air assets give commanders, officials here said. Brig. Gen. Stephen Hoog, an air planner with Multinational Force Iraq, gave a timeline of the operation that resulted in the death June 7 of the most wanted terrorist in