• Cool fire fighters at Little Rock

    Stop, drop and roll out the red carpet for the base's fire department. Not only does this highly decorated department of 55 employees respond to 300-400 emergencies a year that aren't fires and carry out education programs on fire prevention, but they also work along with medical agencies, the

  • Little Rock recycling rescues resources

    In one year, the base' s recycling center saved the base $625,646 and made $270,715 more by recycling nearly 5 million pounds of would-be trash, which would have been rotting in a landfill, into recycled treasure.While the prospect of recycling seems easy, there's a lot more that goes into winning

  • Sweet tips for Halloween safety

    Trick or treatSmell my feetHere is something you should readHalloween's coming soon - Kids be safe and please be goodMonday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., children on base will be excitedly knocking on the doors of base-housing residents reciting that famous line over and over again: "trick-or-treat."

  • 19 AW earns 'Satisfactory' ORI rating

    The relentless training and unwavering character of 19th Airlift Wing Airmen shone through today when the wing's Operational Readiness Inspection results were announced at the base theater today. The Air Mobility Command Inspector General's team announced an overall "Satisfactory" rating for the

  • Little Rock AFB gets tanked, saves money and energy

    The 19th Civil Engineering Squadron is finishing up an estimated $2.6 million water distribution system upgrade project on base scheduled to be completed in the coming months.The project will replace an antiquated 50-year-old water storage tank and potable water booster pump station with a newly

  • Getting the lead out

    Nearly 15 acres of the base, previously used as a skeet range in the 1960s, is an ecologically safer place today because of a restoration project that excavated 36 million pounds of contaminated soil, or enough to fill 450 semi-trucks, and replaced it with more than 3,000 trees and recycled soil and

  • CPTS, CONS, CE take the base back to the future

    It was a dark and stormy night ... really. Little Rock Air Force Base was pitch black the evening of April 25, after an EF-2 tornado plowed through the base, leaving in its wake more than 100 damaged housing units, distressed buildings in the base's flightline area and a handful of crippled C-130

  • Marines trains hard at the Rock

    "C-130 rollin' down the strip, CNATT Little Rock gonna take a little trip!Mission top-secret, destination unknown!Don't even know when we're comin' home!Stand up, buckle up, shuffle to the door,Jump right out and shout Marine Corps!If that chute don't open wide,I've got a reserve by my sideIf that