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NEWS

  • Warfare Center offers online courses

    Ever wondered how wartime planners decide the best ways to organize and deploy air mobility forces and assets? For instance, who goes in to start a bare base operation, security forces or the tanker airlift control element and flight? What are the variables in determining how many pallets you can

  • McChord Airman earns Air Force leadership award

    A Joint Tactical Air Controller with the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron at Fort Lewis was recently selected for the 2005 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award. Senior Airman Grailin Blamer earned this recognition for his quick and cool-headed thinking while providing air cover for Soldiers

  • Andrews firefighter helps rescue man from water tower

    Andrews Air Force Base and Prince George’s County firefighters rescued a man from atop a 200-foot water tower here Dec. 5. An electrical engineer with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Josh Vinson’s blood-sugar level dropped suddenly while he was doing routine water tower maintenance,

  • AMC employees gain better understanding, appreciation for NSPS

    As the Air Force undergoes transformation, the Department of Defense’s General Schedule personnel ranking and pay system is transforming as well. The decades-old GS system will be replaced by the new National Security Personnel System. The current 15-grade GS pay system will be converted to broad

  • CSAF recognizes AES warriors

    Two critical care teams, commonly referred to as flying intensive care units, from the 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and two aeromedical evacuation teams from the 86th AES escorted approximately 12 battlefield-wounded patients, six of whom were in critical condition, from

  • CRG/AEG commander notes unit's accomplishments

    What a ride this has been! In days, the first of our redeployment chalks heads back to the United States. Our replacements are inbound, our hotel rooms are set, and our families and loved ones are anxiously awaiting our return. Eight weeks ago in our first newsletter, I asked your families to wait

  • 818th CRG redeployment in full swing

    The redeployment process is in full swing for the members of the 818th Contingency Response Group/24th Air Expeditionary Group at Chaklala Air Base, Pakistan. Group members will rotate out of Pakistan next week after more than two months assisting the local government following October’s 7.6

  • Air Force medical team supports humanitarian effort

    As U.S. and international teams continue to provide humanitarian aid and medical assistance here following the country’s recent 7.6 magnitude earthquake, an Air Force medical team is standing watch over the responders looking out for their health and their ability to continue the mission. Shortly

  • AMC announces senior officer assignment

    Air Mobility Command officials recently announced the following senior officer assignment: Col. Joseph V. Stephans, deputy chief, Systems Requirements Division, Directorate of Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, will become chief, System Requirements Division,

  • Discovery Channel show visits McConnell AFB

    A team of 22nd Maintenance Group Airmen from McConnell AFB tackle their “Dirty Job” with such aplomb, the Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” taped an episode about the Airmen here Nov. 21 and 22. A “Dirty Jobs” episode about McConnell’s fuel cell maintainers will air on the Discovery