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NEWS

  • Pharmacy student earns Air Force commission at Joint Base MDL

    Jennifer Wang, a pharmacy intern with the 87th Medical Group, was sworn into the United States Air Force officer corps Jan. 10 at the Edwards Resource Center here, as part of the Health Professions Scholarship Program. The HPSP is an Air Force initiative designed to provide financial assistance to

  • Pair find paths to becoming pilots

    Originally enlisted as an F-16 Fighting Falcon crew chief in the Air National Guard, Senior Airman Dan Stein decided he wanted to go active duty. With this goal in mind, he began ROTC in college while still a member of the Guard. Stein, now a C-17 Globemaster III first pilot - the Air Force

  • Joint Base MDL Airmen contribute to AMC's aircrew safety; test new mask

    Flight crews have fewer than 10 seconds during a rapid decompression to don an oxygen mask before losing consciousness at 35,000 feet.Airmen at the Air Mobility Test and Evaluation Squadron here completed the fourth and final phase of testing on the new Aviation Oxygen and Respiratory Systems

  • 305th MXG officers win AMC award, compete at Air Force level

    Two 305th Maintenance Group officers were recently recognized as the Air Mobility Command nominees for the Air Force 2011 Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Maintenance Award for their respective categories.Maj. Ash Cannon, 305th Maintenance Operations Squadron commander, and Capt. Gary Charland, 605th

  • Memorial Service held for military working dog at Fairchild

    A memorial service was held at the Deel Community Center here Jan. 5 for a 92nd Security Forces Squadron military working dog."Lucky" died of cancer last September at age 10 after surviving five tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Lucky, a Belgian Malinois, was assigned to Fairchild

  • Weapon system trainer to save taxpayer's dollars at McConnell

    The first official KC-135 Stratotanker Boom Operator Weapon System Trainer in Air Mobility Command, slated to save the Air Force millions annually, opened during a ceremony Jan. 9 here.Training boom operators to perform in-flight refueling requires a tanker and a receiver. An eight-hour tanker

  • Joint Base Charleston officer becomes first dental advisor in Gardez

    In a remote valley of Afghanistan, a Joint Base Charleston Airman is playing a vital role enhancing the country's practice of dentistry.Maj. Courtney Schapira, from the 628th Medical Group at Joint Base Charleston, is currently assigned to the Medical Embedded Training Team at Forward Operating Base

  • Travis Airmen honored with Purple Hearts

    Three Travis Airmen were awarded Purple Hearts in a ceremony today at the base theater. The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the United States armed forces who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy, or posthumously to the next of kin in the name of those who were killed

  • CASF brings injured service members to higher-level care

    "Ten minutes out" is the message that propels the medical team into action. Knowing their predetermined roles -- CASF staff and volunteers arrive at the awaiting aircraft to quickly and carefully offload patients to the ambulance buses. For some patients, this is a place to receive quick treatment

  • Photo essay: 'K, see ten?'

    KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft are shown on the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing flightline Dec. 23, 2011, at a non-disclosed base here. The KC-10s at the 380th AEW and the Airmen who fly and maintain them are deployed from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.