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  • Travis senior airman competes for AMC's top athlete honor

    Senior Airman Michael Gunter, 60th Mission Support Group knowledge operator and native of Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded Travis Athlete of the Year on Aug. 24 at the 60th Air Mobility Wing conference room during a wing leadership meeting.Gunter's award package has been forwarded to Air Mobility

  • Local girl goes from patient to interpreter during MEDRETE mission

    The word for 'doctor' may be similar in both English and Spanish but many words are not, and that difference in language can make it difficult for the English-speaking medical team here to effectively treat the thousand or so patients they see every day during their Medical Readiness Training

  • Review of Rodeo 2011 scores results in several awards changes

    A programming error in the Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 scoring system resulted in a change to several major awards, one of them being the Best Air Mobility Wing. Air Mobility Command officials found the programming error Aug. 18 during a thorough scrub of all the results prior to posting the detailed

  • Artists cover air mobility events, places for Air Force Art Program

    In back-to-back trips, Air Mobility Command bases hosted visits by artists with the Air Force Art Program to have them document, and later recreate in their own "mind's eye," what they experienced with AMC people, planes and activities.In late-July, artists Paul Rendel of Milton, Del., and Scott

  • Air Force doubles awards earned for energy savings

    Leading the pack, team-driven excellence and noteworthy individual efforts from Air Force people earned recognition by the U.S. Department of Energy through its annual Federal Energy and Water Management Awards program. The Air Force captured almost half of the 2011 awards earned by Department of

  • Enlisted aviator nabs honor at Travis AFB

    It was described as a bitter-sweet moment by Lt. Col. Glen Goss, 6th Air Refueling Squadron commander, as he presented Tech. Sgt. Ben Hopp with the Meritorious Service Medal followed by the U.S. Air Force's Staff Sgt. Henry E. "Red" Erwin Award for Outstanding Career Enlisted Aviator of the Year on

  • Wing wins back-to-back Air National Guard Family of the Year honors

    The Arkansas Air National Guard's 189th Airlift Wing is well-known by its members and local community for a family and service before self atmosphere. And now the wing is recognized nation-wide as the back-to-back winner of the Air National Guard Family of the Year award. Master Sgt. Julie Snyder, a

  • New school paves runway for educational excellence

    An crowd of guests, parents, faculty and staff all stood outside to celebrate the Aug. 15 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School Flightline Upper Academy, the base's new middle school. The on-base charter school, only a dream of local community leaders a little more

  • Team Charleston youth shine in talent contest

    Three Team Charleston family members were announced category winners of the 2011 "You Got Talent" Family and Teen Talent contest, July 27. Several acts sang and played instruments during the contest which was held in Feb. at the Joint Base Charleston-Air Base theater. Their performances were

  • Devil Raider spirit triumphs at Air Mobility Rodeo 2011

    Members from the 621st Contingency Response Wing returned July 30 with heads held high and holding hardware from Air Mobility Command's Air Mobility Rodeo 2011, held July 24-29 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.The "Devil Raiders" of the 621st CRW competed in contingency response operations, aerial