Airman invents hitch bar improving career field's safety

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- There’s an idea from a Scott Air Force Base Airman that could affect the entire trucking industry.The “Meyer’s Bar,” nicknamed after its inventor, Staff Sgt. Joshua Meyer, is a 5-foot reinforced steel bar that has been constructed to support a lowboy trailer’s hydraulic

Airmen create new alert system, enhance readiness

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. -- Throughout the past year, an unlikely pair of McConnell Airmen, a plumber and a boom operator, poured their energy into innovating a cost-effective way to develop and deliver a new system to safely direct alert aircrews during fast-response actions on base.When

Airman battles cancer with positive attitude

More than brothers… wingmen

Zade and his younger brother, Austin, grew up on a small farm at the basin of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. Living in the country meant not having any neighbors around, so the brothers spent a lot of their time together playing on the farm.

Shaw, Fairchild Airmen fuel the fight

A group of F-16CM Fighting Falcons take off from the foggy flightline at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. They soar above the clouds and into the airspace over the Atlantic Ocean, heading east until they can no longer see the land behind them. Despite the meticulous checklists run on aircraft

To honor with dignity

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- These Airmen spend countless hours perfecting minuscule movements in unison. Remaining superb, regardless of severity in temperature or size of crowds, they stand steadfast throughout every funeral and ceremony, honoring all who have served.The Honor Guard’s

Home on range: Airmen, Soldiers partner to prime skills

LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- A main priority of the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command is to enhance partnerships to execute and sustain rapid global mobility. One prime example is the weapons training cooperation between Little Rock Air Force Base and Arkansas National Guard

Former POW recounts Operation Linebacker II

In his cell, an American pilot peered through the barred windows where he saw the silhouette of a B-52 Stratofortress in flames. He could only watch as the same fate that lead him to his prison cell was handed over to his fellow Airmen. This American pilot is retired Col. Peter Giroux, a B-52 pilot

Airman shares story as war-torn youth in Africa

This story is about how a current Air Force staff sergeant survived a war in Sierra Leone at a young age, moved to the United States to live with her father who still serves in the Navy, and became a citizen through joining the United States Air Force. We think it would make a great through airman's

728th Air Mobility Squadron provides 50 years of support to Incirlik

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- For more than 65 years, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, has hosted many aircraft that countered the Cold War Soviet threat and has responded to numerous crises in the Middle East. From earthquakes, humanitarian relief operations, to wartime activities, Incirlik has been at