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  • Air Mobility Rodeo 2011: McChord Field's 'combo' team ready to go

    The tents are built, the signs are hung, and with Rainier Ranch construction almost complete, the combined 62nd Airlift Wing and 627th Air Base Group Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 team is ready for action. "One of the things we might forget about during Rodeo is that we are not only a host, but a

  • New Jersey base realizes joint benefits

    With two months left for the Defense Department to comply with the 2005 base realignment and closure plan, a related initiative -- joint basing -- already is paying off through closer interservice collaboration and the promise of future cost savings, officials here reported.Joint Base

  • Scott senior NCO named among Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen

    Senior Master Sgt. Patrick Jones of the 375th Civil Engineer Squadron at Scott AFB, Ill., was named among the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2011.In an Air Force News report from July 13, Sergeant Jones was listed among the service's elite Airmen for the year and was Air Mobility

  • President Obama awards Medal of Honor to Army Ranger

    President Barack Obama awarded the country's highest military honor July 12 to Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry, an Army Ranger who was shot in both legs and had his hand blown off while saving his fellow Soldiers during a firefight in Afghanistan.Petry became only the second living veteran of the wars

  • Dorm Airmen compete in warrior challenge at Joint Base Charleston

    More than 50 Airmen living in the Joint Base Charleston dormitories participated in the first Dorm Excellence Warrior Ethos Challenge  here July 12. Residents from six dormitories competed for points based on fitness, dormitory inspections, community involvement and camaraderie. "This Dorm

  • Injured McConnell EOD Airman returns home

    With the outstretched arms of not only his wife and two children, but also of McConnell's Leadership and the community, an explosive ordnance disposal Airman returned home June 26.Staff Sgt. Beau Chastain, 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron EOD specialist, returned to Wichita, Kan., from a Joint Force

  • EC officer inducted into local high school's 'hall of fame'

    A 422nd Joint Tactics Squadron "Spartan" was honored by induction into his New Jersey high school's hall of fame June 24 in Plainfield, N.J.Capt. Sean Hoggs, the 422nd JTS's Air Expeditionary Group Staff Course director and Plainfield High School class of 1986 graduate joinedseveral other alumni

  • Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst welcomes new commander

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and local community leaders witnessed the joint base's first change of command ceremony here June 24.Col. John M. Wood assumed command of the Department of Defense's only tri-service joint base from Brig. Gen. Gina M. Grosso.In his new role, Colonel Wood provides

  • MacDill's 6th CS tech control team honored with DOD award

    Communication is the forte of the 6th Communications Squadron, and the U.S. Department of Defense judges had no problem understanding the message of performance exhibited by the MacDill Team.The 6th CS's tech control facility team was recently named tops in the 4-Gig Transmission Facilities category