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  • 17th Airlift Squadron receives AFA Award

    Maj. Gen. James Hawkins, 18th Air Force commander announced Monday, during the 437th Airlift Wing change of command ceremony, that the 17th Airlift Squadron was selected as the Air Force Association 2007 David C. Schilling Award winner for their contribution in the field of flight. The 17 AS was

  • EOHCAMP gives Fairchild check-up

    Team Fairchild must have a firm grip on what it takes to be environmentally sound. The Environmental and Occupational Health Compliance Assessment and Management Program performed by Headquarters Air Mobility Command praised the base for the environmental work done here. EOHCAMP, held June 18

  • Combat Camera Airmen score big wins for Air Mobility Command

    Three members of Air Mobility Command's 1st Combat Camera Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., earned top honors with the Air Force Warfighting Integration and Chief Information annual communication awards.AMC's winners are: - Capt. John J. Clagnaz, Air Force Communication and Information

  • Airman earns one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Awards

    It's not every day the average Airman receives a phone call at home from a four-star general, but a Charleston Air Force Base staff sergeant assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron is no average Airman. Staff Sgt. Richard Rose Jr., aerial combat photographer, had just come in from cutting his

  • SERE Challenge tests skills of Air Force's "Guardian Angels"

    A pair of water survival instructors assigned here earned the Col. Bud Day trophy Thursday as winners of the 2007 SERE Challenge -- a physically grueling and mentally exhausting competition among some of the Air Force's elite special operators. Staff Sgt. Michael Garcia and Staff Sgt. Matthew Zimmer

  • C-27J Spartan named as Joint Cargo Aircraft

    The U. S. Army announced a $2.04 billion contract award June 13 to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems for their C-27J Spartan to be the Joint Cargo Aircraft. This JCA program is a combined Air Force and Army effort to have an airframe that will meet warfighter needs for intratheater airlift.

  • Loading up for Rodeo

    "On your marks, get ready, set ... GO!" With that, four Travis Airmen took off, sprinting toward a C-5 Galaxy with its engines running. The four Airmen, members of the 60th Aerial Port Squadron's Rodeo Team, were practicing a C-5 engine running on/offload, where they must load and unload a C-5 and a

  • Match Up game kicks off

    It's your chance to win big--big like a car, a cruise or cash. These are just a few of the 12,000-plus prizes Air Mobility Command is handing out to this year's MatchUP game winners. The annual game, which runs June 1 through Aug. 31, is an AMC Services awareness event, and 92nd Services Squadron

  • Engineers garner DoD award

    Dover Air Force Base was recently named the winner of the 2006 Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron garnered the recognition at Department of Defense level for managing the best Environmental Restoration Program in the DoD. "Earlier this year, Dover

  • Travis major wins AF Band Officer of the Year

    The commander of the USAF Band of the Golden West here recently won the Air Force Band Officer of the Year for 2006. Maj. Richard Mench led a 60-member band who had 425 performances throughout the western United States and recorded a "War of Remembrance" album. "Over my 24-year career, Major Mench