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FEATURES

  • An Airman’s Pearl Harbor survival story

    Sitting at the Hickam Field, Hawaii, switchboard while covering a work shift for a friend, he heard machine gun fire from outside. His first thought was  of his mother telling him not to join the service. It was too late now.Covering this shift for his fellow Airman would alter Private Mike

  • From cotton fields to airfields

    A story about Retired Air Force Master Sgt. Leroy Mazell Smith, a maintainer with the 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

  • Airman enhances partnerships, foreign language skills

    MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- As an Air Force Academy graduate early in her career, 1st Lt. Ariel Saltin looks for every opportunity to use her skills to enhance her surroundings. Saltin, assigned to the 628th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, actively seeks

  • Transforming the way we learn

    AMC’s Enterprise Learning Office is using the learning transformation concept to help Airmen become lifelong learners.

  • Tankers participate in joint exercise Combat Raider

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. -- A young pilot dangles dangerously far from the grassy South Dakota tundra, held on by nothing more than a strap, a cable and a medic from the South Dakota National Guard.  As the Soldier and Airmen are hoisted up toward the HH-60 Pave Hawk medical helicopter, fake

  • Navajo Airman shares heritage with community

    LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Today’s U.S. Air Force operates with a small, but highly skilled, work force. Less than one percent of the U.S. population volunteers to enlist or commission in the military. Statistics show 19.1 percent of those service members are women, and only 0.6 percent of

  • Judge advocates enable leaders, warfighters

    HQ AMC/JA provides wide-range of services to Air Mobility Command, 18th Air Force, the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center and all of AMC’s subordinate wings.

  • Three generations, one call to duty

    During the past 18 years, the two Airmen watched each other grow and mature. They both finished their education and started their careers. One has rank on his sleeve and the other on his collar, but both wear the same name tapes, LaMothe. The father and son active-duty duo are stationed together

  • A different path to citizenship

    Being an American citizen may seem ordinary for most, but for some Airmen, the path to citizenship is anything but ordinary. Senior Airman Michael Mwelwa, 60th Comptroller Squadron military pay technician, was awarded U.S. citizenship in May at the age of 23. Mwelwa was born in The Republic of