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FEATURES

  • The spirit of jazz

    Capt. Lyndsey Moynihan, 315th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III pilot, has flown around the world numerous times. But when she returns to Joint Base Charleston, her heart remains up in the air, but her passion for singing jazz soars through the stratosphere. The roots of her passion for jazz were

  • Pet Therapy helps sick at DGMC

    Charles Constantine has had many job titles in life. His Air Force career spanned more than 20 years, 16 of those being a security forces K-9 handler, the last 11 as a first sergeant. Now retired, he currently is a community service officer for the California State University Maritime Academy. On

  • Survival of the Fittest: Battle Begins

    Survival of the Fittest is a three-part series on an Airman's battle with cancer while still serving in the Air Force.Some boys dream of becoming a policeman, a fireman, a doctor, an actor or even a star athlete. But for Michael Moyles, none of these appealed to him. Michael's dream was two

  • Honduran-American family's first to serve

    To serve in the United States Armed Forces is to be part of less than 1 percent of Americans, but Airman 1st Class Jennifer George, 60th Comptroller Squadron travel pay specialist, represents an even smaller group of people; the first in her family's entire history to serve in America's military.The

  • An Extra Edge: Military discipline lifts Black Knight on gridiron

    After scoring a touchdown in his team's 34-0 victory Aug. 25, 2012, Danny Bise, wide receiver, rendered a salute to the crowd in celebration. To many the gesture may seem frivolous, but for Airman 1st Class Bise, 19th Communications Squadron client service center technician, at Little Rock Air Force

  • Feature: Charlie, the guy with the backpack

    Charlie, the guy with the backpack, is something of a local figure.He roams the Kunsan nightlife scene with his survival kit backpack, prepared to help however he can, whether it's assisting a fellow Airman home or supergluing a girl's broken heel.Parched? He has water. Bug bitten? He has bugspray

  • Never forget: American POW tells story, unyielding in the face of death

    Growing up on his family's cattle farm in Holly Hill, S.C., 87-year-old Rut Murray dreamed of traveling the world. So, when he was 18, he enlisted into the U.S. Army. He had no idea his dreams would become nightmares.In February 1944, Murray completed recruit training and became a 57-millimeter tank

  • Never Forget: D-Day survivor, POW, tells story

    During the summer of 1943, Reggie Salisbury was just another country boy from Ridgeville, S.C., spending his childhood on his father's chicken farm; hunting, fishing and just being a good old country boy. He was thousands of miles away from the front lines of World War II and the Germans who would

  • 17th Airlift Squadron Ironman

    The sun slowly rises over the Las Vegas desert as thousands of the world's fittest men and women all position themselves at the starting line. The competitors have trained all year, weathering the elements, treating injuries and dealing with the constraints of day-to-day life preparing for this