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  • AFSO 21 facilitator training takes off on base

    The first AFSO 21 level one facilitator training class was conducted Feb. 5-8 here. The class consisted of 16 students, both officer and enlisted, with three of the students attending from McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The course functions as a force multiplier for the AFSO 21 program; the trainer

  • Last-minute call leads to unplanned refueling mission

    A late night call, a cancelled sortie and flexibility led an aircrew from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron here to expedite medical care for more than a dozen severely injured troops being transported from Iraq to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Feb. 7. According to Capt. Brent Toth, 100th

  • Loadmasters learn from mentors

    A hefty responsibility rests on the shoulders of many junior expeditionary Airmen in the war on terrorism. Daniel Stone, Brian Mulkey and Sheldon Cary, all loadmasters and airmen 1st class from the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, are among the many junior Airmen making a difference on a daily

  • Programs allow deployed Airmen to e-mail, chat with family members

    The Air Force continues to provide deployed Airmen and their families with Web-based communication tools allowing e-mail and instant messaging from virtually anywhere in the world. The Air Force Instant Messenger and Global Internet Mail programs help ease the stress of deployments by keeping family

  • Center of Excellence opens its doors to first set of redeployers

    The kids are getting restless; the TV can only hold their attention for so long. Families are waiting in the break room, waiting for their Airmen, waiting for reunion, waiting. Twenty-two maintainers and two KC-135 crews returned to Fairchild Monday after a deployment to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan,

  • Travis trains Pacific AMC crews to maintain KC-10s

    In an effort to streamline KC-10 maintenance responsibilities in the Pacific theater, the 60th Maintenance Operations Squadron developed a two-phase course designed to train en-route maintainers how to recover aircraft and perform basic maintenance tasks to help move aircraft through the theater

  • Dirt runway testing increases C-17 safety, agility

    In an effort to expand the capability of the C-17 Globemaster III, about 40 people from the C-17 Integrated Test Force are in the midst of a four-phase test program to determine the C-17 takeoff and landing performance on non-paved surfaces. Engineers and pilots are testing the aircraft in extreme

  • Base firefighters train with local firefighters, enhance skills

    Two firefighters respond to a 911 call and enter a house with smoke pouring out the windows. They shuffle forward on their knees holding a charged fire hose until one points out a couch that is engulfed in flames. The two aim the hose at the burning divan and one yells, "Utilities?" "Off," replies a

  • Turkey-based Airmen saving troops' lives in Iraq

    Hundreds of miles away from the war zone, the efforts of Airmen here are helping keep Iraq-based troops off dangerous convoy routes that are plagued with roadside bombs and sniper attacks. By flying critical supplies via C-17 Globemaster III from this eastern Turkey air base directly to