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  • Award-winning Dover AFB housing is benchmark of AMC, AF

    As a wrecking ball shatters the last of Dover Air Force Base's old housing and the fresh-paint smell still lingers on many new units, a team of winners departs the base and heads for the Rocky Mountains where a prestigious award awaits them. The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron housing management team,

  • Getting (and staying) green

    The environmental flight here is top notch, and they can prove it. The team brought home three individual awards, one team award and one flight award at Air Mobility Command level for performance in 2007. But it doesn't stop there. The flight went on to receive the Pollution Prevention Acquisition

  • McConnell Airmen's actions in Iraq earn him Bronze Star

    Second Lt. Jack D. McGonegal, 23, 22nd Security Forces Squadron, was awarded a Bronze Star medal, Nov. 29, during a ceremony here for his leadership actions while deployed. While on deployment from November 2006 through August 2007, at Camp Bucca, Iraq with the 886th Expeditionary Security Forces

  • Pope Airman wins Sijan award

    A Pope Airman has been awarded the 2007 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award for distinguished leadership. Capt. Stewart Parker, 21st Special Tactics Squadron, was named the junior officer category winner for the coveted award. Captain Parker led a team of combat controllers into combat in Iraq

  • Fairchild NCO receives Leo Marquez Award

    A Fairchild non-commissioned officer was recently the recipient of the Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez Award, an honor that recognizes exceptional leadership abilities in maintenance career fields in the Air Force. Tech. Sgt. Travis Madden, 92nd Maintenance Squadron productions element chief in ammunition, was

  • Dover earns AF CINC Installation Excellence Team visit

    Team Dover earned an early gift this year as Dover Air Force Base was awarded $500,000 for quality-of-life initiatives and a seat as one of the top two finalists for the Air Force Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence. Gen. Arthur Lichte, commander of Air Mobility Command, on

  • AMC announces top Security Forces award winners for 2007

    The Air Mobility Command announced its top security forces award winners for fiscal year 2007. Individual award winners will be invited to attend the Annual AMC Security Forces Awards Banquet at Scott AFB, tentatively scheduled for the Jul - Aug 08 time frame.  The 2007 winners are:ELIZABETH N.

  • Dover Airmen awarded combat medals

    Two Dover Airmen received the Air Force Combat Action Medal in a historic ceremony here, Nov. 15. Staff Sgt. Michael Grooms, 436th Security Forces Squadron, and Staff Sgt. Huey Harris III, 436th Services Squadron, distinguished themselves in combat and were Dover's first Airmen presented with the

  • Travis Airman awarded William P. Parenteau Memorial Award

    A captain from the 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron has been selected as the William A. Parenteau Memorial Award recipient for 2007. Capt. Jefferson DeBerry was presented the award during a ceremony in Washington D.C., Oct. 30. The award is given by the Air Traffic Control Association to an

  • Dover named best in AMC

    Dover Air Force Base rose above the rest of Air Mobility Command, as officials awarded Team Dover the AMC Commander in Chief's Installation Excellence Award, Nov. 2.Wings from 12 installations competed for the award. AMC's evaluation team scored seven different focus areas in 26 functional