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  • Veteran raises PTSD awareness, encourages Airmen to seek support

    After separating from the Air Force in 2014, Travis Johnson returned to Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, May 6 to brief newly-minted Airmen on his struggle with overcoming obstacles and expectations of coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.With his service dog, Bella, sitting by his side,

  • Aeromedical evacuation Airmen train Lebanese Armed Forces

    The Defense Institute for Medical Operations sent a four-person team to Beirut, Lebanon to teach, mentor and learn from the Lebanese Armed Forces about various ways to provide assistance during a humanitarian crisis.Lt. Col. James Baldock, 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Commander, and Capt.

  • Military Bishop visits Team Fairchild

    Most Reverend Neal J. Buckon, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, visited Team Fairchild as part of an annual visit, May 4, 2016, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, and serves as the military Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the western region of the United

  • 18th Air Force leadership visits Fairchild

    Lt. Gen. Sam Cox, 18th Air Force commander, saw the hard work mobility Airmen are doing day in and day out during a visit to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, May 4-6, 2016.Cox was joined by his wife, Tammy, and Chief Master Sgt. Todd S. Petzel, 18th AF command chief. During his visit, Cox flew

  • Nevada Air Guard unit begins MAFFS transition

    He watched as fires hurdled a ridgeline and crept toward his northern California farm.But the fire line halted a few hundred yards away -- moments before charring cropland -- after C-130 aircraft dropped thousands of pounds of fire retardant using the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire

  • U.S. Air Force SAPR Director visits McChord Field

    "I ask one question--do we have a problem with sexual assault?" asked Maj. Gen. James Johnson, Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office director.Johnson asked this question, along with a number of similar questions, during the 2nd Annual McChord Field Sexual Assault Legal Workshop,

  • First Sergeants provide resources, mentor Airmen, advise unit commanders

    Some people think First Sergeants' only role is to enforce discipline and standards.However, Master Sgt. Kristy Gates, 375th Security Forces Squadron first sergeant, said there is more to sporting the diamond than enforcing discipline; she prefers being a mentor and making sure she takes care of her

  • Tuskegee Airman reminisces on past while touring JB Charleston

    Dr. Eugene Richardson, a Tuskegee Airman, signs a photo of his old unit, 332nd Fighter Group, while stopping for lunch at the Charleston Club during a tour of Joint Base Charleston, April 29, 2016. Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces.

  • Vietnam Vet receives medals 48 years after war

    "It's been quite a day for me," said an emotional retired Army Sergeant Cecil Wade after he received the Purple Heart, the Army Commendation Medal with Valor and a second bronze star device for his Vietnam Service Medal in a ceremony at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, April 22, 2016."I even polished