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  • Kentucky Air Guard home to DoD’s only search and rescue dog

    In response to scenarios like the Haitian earthquake, Parsons spearheaded a new approach, developing the squadron’s search and rescue K-9 program. The effort, launched in 2018, is designed to increase the capabilities of disaster response teams in locating and recovering personnel through the use of

  • Contingency Response Airmen conduct joint inspection training

    Four U.S. Air Force service members recently conducted joint inspection training with contractors July 25-31, 2016, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Squadron, deployed from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., taught several Kellogg, Brown and Root contractors about

  • Murphy's Law can't stop Travis CRG, Cerberus Strike

    As the screaming U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules stood still at the Fort Carson flightline, multiple Airmen scrambled to figure out how they were going to fit a huge trailer into the aircraft.With each millimeter just as important as the next, the trailer was slowly and carefully backed up onto the

  • Royal Canadian Air Cadets tour USAF base

    Royal Canadian Air Cadets from the 232nd (Bighorn), 531st (City of Trail) and 841st (Boundary) Squadrons in British Columbia, Canada, toured Fairchild AFB June 5.The tour, facilitated in part by the Embassy of Canada in the District of Columbia, began with a mission briefing from Col. Brian

  • Tanker aircrews help in fight against ISIL

    With 16 KC-135 Stratotankers on its installation, Airmen from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, waste no time when answering the call to defend the nation -- even when there is little to no notice. As these planes can be seen and heard overhead, one has to wonder where in the world they are flying.On

  • MacDill Aircrew help keep 'em flying in fight against ISIL

    With 16 KC-135 Stratotankers on its installation, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida and the members of Team MacDill waste no time when answering the call to defend the nation--even when there is little to no notice. As these planes can be seen and heard overhead, one has to wonder where in the world

  • Existing tools help users reduce PII breaches

    Members of 24th Air Force are refurbishing an old email tool to help Air Force users reduce breaches of personally identifiable information, or PII.The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET, which currently prompts users to provide a digital signature when an email contains an active hyperlink