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  • Abracadabra! Story of part-time magician, full-time master sergeant

    "I will make this dove disappear!" the tall, silver-haired magician confidently says to the crowd.His audience, a small group of children, eagerly watches as he carefully places the white bird into a mysterious black box and covers it with a cloth. The magician quickly removes the cloth and reveals

  • Making the sand not so bland: Artists help add color to desert base

    The Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan has the "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci painted on a wall. The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City displays the work of Michelangelo on its ceiling. At an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, two Airmen from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing show off their

  • Fueling freedom: Fuels Airmen keep mission going at Southwest Asia base

    Imagine having enough gas to fill the tanks of 410 average size cars every day for 10 years. It's nearly the equivalent to the amount of fuel -- 25 million gallons -- the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron's fuels management Airmen provide to aircraft in a single month at an

  • Fisher House at Travis AFB receives upgrades

    The Travis AFB Fisher House received renovations provided by a local hardware store on the exterior and interior of the house Nov. 18 to improve the quality of life for the residents during their stay.The Fisher House mission is to provide the family members of patients with serious illness or

  • Travis AFB hydraulics Airmen help 'put planes in the sky'

    Airmen must do a lot to maintain the operations tempo and continue to complete the mission successfully day by day. When it comes to maintaining aircraft serviceability, people often think of crew chiefs as being the only ones who keep it going. There are other Airmen who are responsible for

  • Dover's airlift team delivers the goods

    When it comes to delivering, Dover Air Force Base, Del., has set the bar high. They routinely load millions of pounds of cargo annually, which is then transported to all corners of the earth. From bullets, beans, and troops down range, to humanitarian relief to countries suffering from disasters --

  • Fairchild Honor Guard: Here to serve

    They're sharp, precise and have a broad mission spanning 29 counties across a 61,000 square mile geographical area, extending from Eastern Washington, to Northern Idaho and Northwestern Oregon. They are the Fairchild Air Force Base Honor Guard. The HG is a congressionally-mandated program to provide

  • Crew chiefs take to the skies

    When people are sitting in an aircraft, thousands of feet above the ground, and think about who is keeping them safe, the first person who jumps into their minds is probably the pilot. Pilots do play a crucial role in the safety of a flight, but they are not the only ones.The 860th Aircraft