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FEATURES

  • Airmen supply fresh air to fleet

    LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Breathing is often taken for granted on the ground but foraircrews performing high altitude air drops, it’s vital as air pressuredecreases, leaving them in a potential life or death situation.Thanks to the 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuel cryogenicsAirmen,

  • Dentist finds motivation in outreach programs

     TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- She saw her. The scared little girl was only five or six years old and the girl needed her help, having possibly never sought dental care before. The tiny patient was in pain. Her mother tried to calm her, but she did not understand. The young dentist tried to sooth

  • Scott Airman provides deploying medics critical skills needed to save lives

    Tech. Sgt. Emily Irwin-Green is an emergency and trauma nursing instructor assigned to the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in St. Louis, Missouri, and is responsible for ensuring deployed medics also have the skills needed when caring for servicemen and women down range.

  • Healing the wounds that can’t be seen

    Nine deployments, severe depression, anxiety and alcoholism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a suicide attempt, were what drove one McConnell Airman to begin a journey to reshape his life.“My first combative deployment was to Kirkuk, Iraq, back in 2006,” said Tech. Sgt. Terrance Williams, 22nd

  • Mobility Airmen help build global partnerships

    Delivering humanitarian aid, transporting coalition forces to various points on the globe, refueling the fight and providing first-class care in the sky are hallmarks of Air Mobility Command’s rapid global mobility mission. Yet mission success is not possible without a reliable network of

  • Airman fights back after traumatic brain injury

    The work day is over and a master sergeant climbs on his motorcycle and takes off. He’s looking forward to the one-hour ride home. A smile covers his face as he thinks about seeing his wife of 12 years and two children.

  • McChord Airmen maintain vital countermeasures

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- In a warehouse located on the ammunition grounds here is the conventional maintenance production flight, which is responsible for maintaining all of the flares and ammo for 62nd Airlift Wing.Staff Sgt. Chad Warner, 62nd Maintenance Squadron conventional maintenance

  • Wrestling with success

    Fairchild Airman makes it onto the United States Air Force Wrestling team in a display of dazzling skill and gritty determination.

  • POW, Airman inspires Charleston Airmen

    Retired U.S. Air Force Capt. William Robinson, the longest surviving enlisted prisoner of war, visited here as the guest speaker at an awards ceremony for the 437th Maintenance Group, March 17."I heard him speak at the NCO Academy and was amazed," said Tech. Sgt. John Paull, 437th Aircraft