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  • Officials offer tips for moving during peak season

    The U.S. military is expected to facilitate nearly 50,000 permanent station changes during this year's peak moving season. Several factors may be causing moving delays this year, such as a shortage of private sector drivers as well as an increase in private sector moves and recent relocations due to

  • Medal of Honor recipient makes sergeant's re-enlistment memorable

    Not many Airmen, especially those who have had several, can look back and say that their re-enlistment was an event they'll remember for the rest of their life.This is not the case for one master sergeant because for her re-enlistment, retired Col. Joe Jackson, Medal of Honor recipient, administered

  • Mobility Airman profile: Deployed Airman always seeking next challenge

    In today's Air Force, every Airman is expected to push themselves to reach their goals. That means furthering their education, helping their communities, keeping physically fit, and oh, by the way, progressing in their career fields.For one NCO deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, challenging

  • Air Force sniper team practices at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

    Senior Master Sgt. Nathan Brett and Staff Sgt. George Reinas practiced as an Air Force sniper team on a range here, July 27. They are among a rare group of individuals in the Air Force security forces field.Brett and Reinas are both certified Air Force snipers with the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary

  • Dover command post controllers: Managing the tempo of the base

    Their stage is a 20- by 25-foot room dimly lit by computer screens. The players are 65 members of Team Dover with about 13 on shift at any given time. The operations of the base dance to their rhythm.Echoes of airplane tail numbers and the chiming of incoming phone and radio calls are anchored by

  • Competitor from TV's 'Top Shot' manages marksmanship event for Rodeo 2011

    In season two of The History Channel's television show "Top Shot," Staff Sgt. George Reinas was a finalist for the show. He is also one of two certified Air Force snipers who are managing the Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 advanced marksmanship competition. "I'm more than happy to be here to help bring

  • Security forces and MWDs: K-9 units train to protect

    They rise above the ranks of Fido, Hooch and even Lassie as military working dogs are trained to defend military installations all over the world protecting countless numbers of lives and materials with the guidance of their handlers."As handlers we're doing the best we can to keep everybody safe,"

  • Champion powerlifting Airman: 'It's all about fitness'

    It doesn't matter that he holds 21 military national weightlifting records; or that he set eight American powerlifting records; or that he lifted a record-setting 1,492 pounds at the recent 2011 Raw World Powerlifting Championships; or that he has been selected for the rank of chief master sergeant.