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FEATURES

  • Airman searches in Vietnam for remains

    When Tech. Sgt. Robin Bailon enlisted in Air Force in 2000, she didn't expect her career to place her in Vietnam, serving as a life science investigator.But Bailon, an aircrew flight equipment specialist by trade, had the opportunity to venture far outside the scope of her traditional duties,

  • Airman from Trinidad has a purpose

    Airman 1st Class Brandon Massiah, 319th Logistics Readiness Squadron traffic management apprentice, is on his way to officially becoming a U.S. citizen.He and his mother are originally from Trinidad and Tabago, San Fernando. He was raised in Trinidad by his grandmother while his mother went to

  • 60 YEARS IN THE AIR: A pilot's perspective

    (Editor's note: This article is part of a series looking back on the history of the KC-135 Stratotanker throughout the decades, leading up to the 60th anniversary of the KC-135's first flight in August 2016.)Many kids entertain big dreams about growing up to become a doctor, a lawyer or even a

  • Airman gives the gift of life on Christmas

    "I didn't think what happened that day would have happened so quickly," said Michael Hamilton a local restaurant cook and incident victim. "If she hadn't been here, there would have been more questioning, more chaos and less stability."It was this past Christmas and the restaurant was near empty.

  • Crafting precision for mission readiness

    For Air Force metals technology technicians, the width of half a human hair, about three thousandths of an inch, is their measurement constraint. That precision is tested every day, as they know it might be the difference between mission failure and mission success.Metals technology technicians

  • Fueling the Mission

    "Over the past year our total force mobility Airmen moved over 320K tons of cargo, 876K passengers, offloaded over 1.2 billion pounds of fuel, and transported over 4K patients," said General Carlton Everhart II, Air Mobility Command commander during the 2015 Airlift Tanker Association Convention.AMC

  • Behind the KC-135 periodic inspection

    The hangar smells of oil while the sound of Kenny Loggin's "Danger Zone" echoes through the rafters of the hangar. The KC-135 Stratotanker is torn apart, panels removed, screws extracted and the pilot's chair is sitting on a table. The 92nd and 141st Maintenance Squadrons are in the "look phase" of

  • Deicing simulator improves training, saves AF millions of dollars

    When the night gets colder and the day begins to shorten, winter is on its way. With the winter season comes the arrival of snow, ice, frost, negative wind chills and aircraft deicing.Aircraft deicing involves a team of 20 to 40 Airmen operating deicing trucks on the flight line removing snow, frost

  • Couple finds faith in each other, Air Force

    A weekend ski trip in the mountains isn't as much of an exotic getaway for Airmen stationed in Europe as it might be for the average Kansas, but that happens to be exactly how one man met the love of his life.Then-Senior Airman Young Suh was at a club in Austria with some of his friends during a

  • 60 YEARS IN THE AIR: KC-135 arrives at McConnell

    (Editor's note: This article is part of a series looking back on the history of the KC-135 Stratotanker throughout the decades, leading up to the 60th anniversary of the KC-135's first flight in August 2016.)For the past several decades, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., has served as home to one of