• 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

  • Get Fit to Fight at the HAWC

    If being round is a shape, then some Airmen on base are in shape. Yet, there is hope for Airmen haplessly unfit, and it comes in the form of the 19th Aerospace Medicine Squadron's Health and Wellness Center's classes, which are designed specifically to help Airmen re-shape themselves and become fit

  • 18th Air Force welcomes new commander

    Lt. Gen. Mark F. Ramsay formally assumed command of the 18th Air Force from Lt. Gen. Robert R. Allardice in a change of command ceremony today at the Scott Club here. "The flag that we're passing today is significant ... it's the flag, it's the guidon, it's the colors of the Eighteenth Air Force,"

  • 1855: A special "tale"

    Chief Master Sgt. Mark Marson, 314th Airlift Wing command chief, wrote in permanent marker, "she is an Airman," on the 47-year-old skin of aircraft C-130E 62-1855 at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group here. The Vietnam-Era C-130E was delivered to AMARG, commonly known as the