Features

April 12, 2011
Travis aerial porters keep cargo moving in Afghanistan

At the biggest aerial port in all the Department of Defense, supplying Afghanistan isn't a problem at all. In fact, they do it with half as many people as any other port squadron in Air Mobility Command."I like the responsibility," said Staff Sgt. Chris Droegemueller, 60th Aerial Port Squadron. "It
April 11, 2011
Airmen build partnerships with Trinidad and Tobago army

After four days of exercising, the expeditionary medical support health response team from the 60th Medical Group at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., have proven to be very effective. While exercising disaster scenarios, they also examined and treated more than 600 local nationals.The team is here at
April 11, 2011
Mobility Airman profile: Fairchild NCO supports Operation Enduring Freedom, deployed KC-135 maintenance ops at Kyrgyzstan base

It's a fact that KC-135 maintenance Airmen at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, are busy 24 hours a day, seven days a week supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. For Staff Sgt. Joshua Scott, he said he knows how much and his fellow maintenance Airmen "have a very large impact."Sergeant Scott,
April 11, 2011
Medical Airmen gain new perspective during foreign medical exercise

With hospital operations well under way, the U.S. Air Force medical personnel that form the expeditionary medical support health response team here started seeing patients at 8 a.m. April 10 at Cumuto Barracks in support of the Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias (FA HUM) 2011, or Allied Forces Humanitarian
April 11, 2011
Travis medical Airmen use skills, training while on deployment to Afghanistan

Even though the David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center, or DGMC, has one of the largest areas of responsibilities, as well as an extensive mission, the hospital can still afford to deploy its troops to locations where their help is needed urgently. At the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram
April 10, 2011
Medical Airmen treat local citizens during Trinidad and Tobago exercise

Praises of gratitude and appreciation were heard in the operating room of the health response team, or HRT, facility when a local man from Trinidad and Tobago thanked Lt. Col. (Dr.) Mark Scherrer, 60th Medical Group general surgeon at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., for removing a benign tumor from
April 8, 2011
Mobility Airman profile: Joint Base MDL staff sergeant supports aerial port ops for Operation Tomodachi

Deployed from the 621st Contingency Response Wing, Staff Sgt. Christopher Wilkinson is deployed to Misawa Air Base, Japan, to support aerial port operations for Operation Tomodachi.Sergeant Wilkinson is among dozens of Airmen who deployed to Japan from the 621st CRW of Joint Base
April 8, 2011
Mobility Airman profile: Little Rock Airman supports C-130 maintenance operations at Iraq base

The C-130 Hercules, since it first came into the Air Force inventory in the 1950s, has long been the bedrock airlifter performing the tactical airlift mission in deployed locations. But to keep those planes flying, it takes deployed aircraft maintenance Airmen like Airman 1st Class Nicholas Spase --
April 7, 2011
Photo essay: McConnell DFAC serves Airmen

The professionally trained staff at the Chisholm Trail Inn dining facility prepares a variety of menu items in accordance with strict, health and nutritional standards set by military public health, U.S. Public Health Food Code and the Air Force. Contracted personnel assist with cleaning the dining
April 6, 2011
Female SERE instructor at Fairchild 'teaches the guys'

As the sun ascends on a cold, dismal morning in Colville National Forest, Wash., it marks the beginning of a 14-hour day for this senior airman. It has been snowing and raining for the past three days making the ground a wet, soggy, mud ice mixture. The temperature is slowly approaching the low 30's