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  • Space-A travel: Did you know?

    Every day, around the world, hundreds of military and military-contracted commercial aircraft travel the world delivering troops and cargo. These missions allow hundreds of thousands of military personnel, retirees, family members, and other Department of Defense-eligible travelers to fly at almost

  • World War II hero receives medals after 65 years

    When Japan surrendered in 1945 and the "boys" came home, the last thing on these men's minds was how to receive their hard earned military decorations.Mr. Gordon Ballagh, a 90-year-old veteran and prisoner of war during World War II, is one of these men. With the efforts of Tech. Sgt. Wayne Herold,

  • Dispatches from the front: 375th AES sergeant trains Afghan AF medic team

    The Afghan soldier was in trouble. With his eyes sitting heavy and glazed-over in their sockets, the soldier's condition had worsened. He now had to be removed from the C-27A Spartan aircraft that had been flown to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, to transport him and other Afghan National Security

  • Military Saves Week -- Helping Airmen 'save' for their future

    As a young adult with a steady paycheck, it's easy to chalk retirement up to something that won't affect you for many years.But many young adults may not realize that the failure to save now could come back to haunt them when they're of retirement age, and realize they don't have enough money to

  • Expeditionary Center instructor stars on History Channel's 'Top Shot'

     Staff Sgt. George Reinas likes guns as outsized as his personality and viewers across the country will get to see him shoot off both this week when season two of the History Channel's "Top Shot" premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m.Sergeant Reinas is a security forces sniper assigned to the U.S. Air Force

  • Radio sites improve facilities, equipment

    "It used to be a rat's nest," said Airman 1st Class Michael McHam, pointing to a neatly organized cluster of wires inside one of the 60th Communications Squadron's new radio receive/transmit sites.The cluster was a jumbled mess inside the previous facility. The new site, one of two 483-square foot

  • C-17s deliver largest OEF fuel resupply in Afghanistan

    Three C-17 Globemaster IIIs carrying 120 bundles dropped the largest resupply of fuel ever to a remote military outpost in Afghanistan.Throughout the span of two days, Jan. 29 through 30, Soldiers hustled to collect the pallets, store them and then prepare for the next C-17 pass."When these drops

  • Scott AFB Honor Guard renders final honors at funerals

    While the notes of "Taps" are heard at many bases daily signifying the end of the day, it is also played during military funerals. The concept of military funerals began during the Napoleonic Wars when the dead were carried from the battlefield covered by a flag. Military funeral honors are now