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FEATURES

  • 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

  • Nondestructive inspection journeyman: Dyess’ mechanical doctors

    In the nondestructive inspection shop, an Airman holds a C-130J Super Hercules tailpipe clamp. It’s been sent there because there’s a possibility of damage, but it’s unquestionably too small to detect. The Airman goes through a slow process of dipping the piece in one chemical bath after another,

  • JBMDL servicemembers enable critical mission

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- Eight pints is the average amount of blood coursing through a healthy adult's veins at any given time. However, at the Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory East, there's always a great deal more blood flowing. ASWBPL-East was established at then

  • Air mobility managers key to Haiti aid response

    Beginning in the early hours of Oct. 5, the men and women who comprise the Air Mobility Division of the 612th Air and Space Operations Center at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., worked day and night, for more than two weeks, supporting relief operations in western Haiti.As the entity which plans,

  • MDL Airman leads U.S. tennis team to international victory

    The Olympics are known for bringing athletes from around the globe together for friendly competition. However, international competition and comradery doesn’t only occur every four years.  1st Lt. Hannah Kabaso, the deputy sexual assault response coordinator for JB MDL, recently attended the NATO

  • Combat to cowboy boots: Airman uses horses to spread resiliency

    Growing up, she recalled running around the woods of North Carolina trying to catch a wild horse. She had fallen in love with a flea bitten, little and gray Arabian horse, which nobody could manage to catch, except her. She wasn’t yet tall enough to put the halter on, so she would put the rope

  • Airman follows in mothers footsteps, becomes flight nurse

    As a child, Capt. Katie Slugocki, 321st Air Mobility Operations Squadron flight nurse, would tag along with her mother, who has now been a nurse for more than 30 years, while she worked and saw the impact her mother had on her patients’ lives. Since she was just a young girl using her mother’s

  • Mentor opportunity turns into lifelong friendship

    “Kelsey has been a true Godsend to my family,” said Megan Sanders, mother of Kaylee Smith. “She has supported my children during numerous Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) events and in their everyday lives.”

  • Measuring excellence by the milligram

    When not supporting the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and the Air National Guard, the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory uses its technical capabilities at Joint Base Charleston Air Base to support a range of technologies including aircraft countermeasures test sets and night vision goggle