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FEATURES

  • Guns, pucks: putting 'Thunder' on the ice

    One might ask how someone determined to join the Marine Corps ends up a master sergeant in the Kansas Air National Guard. If Master Sgt. Frank Cook is asked that question, it's best to pull up a chair and get comfortable because it's not a simple story.Born at McConnell Air Force Base and raised in

  • De-ice, de-ice baby: Maintenance team keeps Fairchild flying

    Stop. Collaborate and listen. Airmen are here with a very special mission.Maintainers from the 92nd and 141st Aircraft Maintenance Squadrons are ready 24/7 to counter the harsh winter conditions that would otherwise ground Fairchild's KC-135 Stratotankers. They are the de-icing crews who, since

  • Why do we go through CAST?

    The unit deployment manager calls you into his office. He has something to tell you and you know he is about to say that you are going to deploy. Without a missing a beat, he lets you know that you have been selected to head to Afghanistan for a minimum of 179 days for a rotational deployment and

  • Secretary reaches milestone in civil service career

    As the secretary for the 437th Operations Group commander, Karen Bevis manages the calendar schedule and administrative functions for a 14-member staff. But looking back at her career, she never imagined when she began working at Charleston Air Force Base, that she would still be working in civil

  • Airman amasses huge comic book collection

    Super-speed, excessive strength, X-ray vision--realistically, no human can obtain these skills naturally, but comic books provide a way to vicariously live through the lives of fictional characters who do have these abilities. And for Airman 1st Class Jeremy Evans, 375th Communication Squadron, the

  • Aerial porter's first deployment ... France

    Airman 1st Class James Terronez puts his training to the test for the first time in a deployed environment at Istres Air Base, France. Terronez, originally from Wichita, Kan., is currently stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., assigned to the 818th Contingency Response Group as an

  • Team Fairchild remembers Lt. Col. Michael Anderson

    "When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!"While most children dream of flying into space, Lt. Col. Michael Anderson made his dream a reality.Sadly that dream came to an end Feb. 1, 2003. Anderson was one of only a handful of African-American astronauts and was one of the seven crewmembers aboard

  • Taking life one touch, one step at a time

    Imagine having to relearn all the things you learned as kid; how to eat, how to walk, how to talk. Imagine how frustrated and devastated you would be.That's exactly what happened to Airman 1st Class Lori Cord, 436th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, when she acquired a rare illness in late

  • Airman uses SABC training, saves young boy

    As a 16th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, Senior Airman Joy Clayton has spent time on the frontlines of combat, serving on aeromedical evacuations of wounded warriors, to air dropping supplies to warfighters on the battlefield. However, Clayton never expected her Air Force training would be utilized in