• Stepping Stones to Success: Mentoring

    The act of mentoring and being mentored are rooted throughout history and extends its influence from contemporary culture back to the ancient Greeks. Mentors and their protégés have left an undeniable stamp on culture and have impacted history throughout the ages. For example Plato, Socrates'

  • 19th Airlift Wing excels during LCAP inspection

    Cheers rang loud in the base theater Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, as the ratings from the 19th Airlift Wing's Logistic Compliance Assessment Program inspection were called out. Intense preparation, high spirits and great expectations paid off with an overall score of Excellent and 16 individual

  • Driving safely saves lives, careers

    The concrete road is edged with tar and litter around its boundaries, sparsely populated with pot holes and chips in the pavement and wildlife roaming the outskirts of the woods nearby. In the daytime, the sun's heat ripples off the pavement while the aura of humidity complicates the conditions. In

  • Planes, response team evacuate to Little Rock AFB

    Aircraft and rapid response team members from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., evacuated to Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., today as a precautionary measure to assure the planes are not damaged and that the response team is prepared to act after the landfall of Hurricane Irene. The

  • Building partnerships through training

    In May 1971, the 314th Airlift Wing was introduced to Little Rock Air Force Base. Throughout the last 40 years, C-130 training has expanded as well as the opportunities afforded to international students. Foreign students come here for training, but when they leave, they take with them not only a

  • Stepping stones to success: Starting out right

    (Editor's note: this is the first in a series of articles that will provide young Airmen and supervisors with advice to help make their careers in the military a success.) All enlisted Air Force careers originate at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, at Basic Military Training. However, as soon as this

  • Wing wins back to back Air National Guard Family of the Year

    The Arkansas Air National Guard 189th Airlift Wing is well-known by its members and local community for a family and service before self atmosphere, and now the wing is recognized nation-wide as the back to back winner of the Air National Guard Family of the Year award. Master Sgt. Julie Snyder, a

  • Air Force announces enlisted supplemental promotions

    Twenty-eight Airmen from Little Rock Air Force Base were among more than 800 Airmen selected for promotion to the next higher rank as part of the August enlisted supplemental promotion process. The enlisted supplemental promotion release announces those Airmen selected for promotion who tested