• 314th AW Historian earns contingency award

    Christopher Rumley, the 314th Airlift Wing's historian, earned the Air Force-level Excellence in Contingency History award during his last deployment as a historian for the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia.Deployments to the area of operations in either Operation Iraqi Freedom or

  • Technology drives new, better ways to educate Airmen

    Cell phones could soon be the ticket to keeping up with professional development requirements.That's just one concept being explored by officials at Air Education and Training Command, the Air Force's training and education component. Like their counterparts in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, AETC

  • Camp helps future Battlefield Airmen prepare

    Air Force recruiters are in a battle these days - a battle to find physically qualified recruits to fill the force's critical Battlefield Airmen career fields.With an early physical fitness test washout rate hovering near 60 percent, recruiters have turned to offering educational sessions like one

  • 777th EAS removes 20,000 vehicles from roads

    "It's the mighty power of the Air Force mobility machine that enables the U.S. to be able to operate in austere locations like Iraq and Afghanistan," said Lt. Col. Nathan Allerheiligen, 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron.The 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron proved this in the month of May by

  • African tortoise found on base

    Airmen from the 19th Civil Engineer Squadron "Dirt Boys" are used to unearthing old or discarded items while they work around base. However, they made a rather interesting discovery on the base's perimeter road June 1 that might be a first around here. Meet "Hinz," an African Spurred Tortoise, who

  • Airmen and families offered free automotive inspections

    Twelve technicians from the 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron Vehicle Management Flight are taking time to provide Airmen and their families with free automobile inspections. Vehicle maintenance technicians are inspecting vehicles June 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Auto Skills Center, Bldg. 656, to

  • Air Traffic Control Tower named best in Air Force

    In May 2010, officials announced the Air Traffic Control and Airfield Management Annual Award winners for 2009 during the airfield operations conference awards dinner held in Las Vegas, Nev.The 19th Operations Support Squadron Air Traffic Control Tower Air Traffic Control team earned the Air