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FEATURES

  • Travis Airman saves life of local motorist

    Senior Airman Max Brunwasser, 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron combat navigation journeyman, was on his way to work in the early hours of Sept. 8, straddling the dark, winding narrows of Highway 113 in his Subaru Legacy.

  • Faces of the Defender: Crew Chiefs

    Taking a risk and straying from a career comfort zone isn’t easy for some. The Air National Guard allows Airmen to be a part of new and unique career opportunities, and that’s just what this Airman did. Air Force Airman 1st Class Heidy M. Murcia-Alvares, a crew chief assigned to the 182nd Aircraft

  • Airman puts maintenance skills to use on motocross track

    MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. – He ran the motorcycle through a five-foot pool of water, wrecking the bike; everything he had worked for all his life seemed to be over. Staff Sgt. Thomas Tangedal, 22nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metal technology journeyman, was completing a practice run on a

  • 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.

  • Three generations of serving the Air Force

    Going back to 1961, when television stations still broadcast in black and white, telephones were rotary dial and humans had not yet visited the moon, the Wehunt family has had someone in the United States Air Force.Today, at a time with hundreds of color cable networks, smartphones and the moon

  • From orphan to Air Force maintainer

    "I was born Vanya Smirnoff Germanovich in Odessa, Ukraine," said Airman 1st Class Evan Hittle. "I lived in an apartment with my parents, Gera and Aleynea, and my older sister, Natasha. We were poor and always moving to new apartments. There isn't very much for young kids to do in Odessa so it was