• Team Little Rock ‘all in’ to win best in AF

    (Editor's note: this is the second article in a series about the upcoming visit by five colonels from Air Mobility Command headquarters who will visit AMC's three finalists for the Commander in Chief's Installation Excellence Award. The colonels are scheduled to visit Little Rock Air Force Base Oct.

  • Base employees empowered through VPP

    Reducing injuries and promoting a healthy, safe work environment is the goal of a Department of Labor program recently started at Little Rock Air Force Base, called the voluntary protection program or VPP for short. Two weeks ago, base military members, civilian employees and contractors received

  • Base observes National POW/MIA Recognition day

    As the U.S. continues to be a country at war, the nation's Airmen are consistently at the front lines of combat. As such, they are always at risk of capture by the enemy. Little Rock Air Force Base honored 12 POWs from Arkansas at the POW/MIA Remembrance Day luncheon Sept. 18. "While we recognize

  • Base honors Arkansas’ fallen

    Base flags will be lowered to half staff when the governor of Arkansas issues proclamations honoring active-duty servicemembers, including National Guard members on Title 10 orders, who have fallen in combat. "It's the right thing to do when one of Arkansas' sons or daughters gives the ultimate

  • Housing project continues to build success

    The base family housing privatization project continues to successfully build upon the progress of the past 10 months. To date, the Hunt-Pinnacle Communities re-launch of the project has yielded 10 new units and 79 renovated units. HP Communities officials are showing residents what they can expect

  • Meth use isn’t worth it

    "Crank," "Amp," "Crystal," "Ice," "Speed" -- all these are slang terms for methamphetamines, powerful stimulant drugs. More than 9.6 million residents of the United States have used methamphetamines at least once in their lifetime and 1.3 million have used the drug in the past year. Methamphetamine

  • 10 things to know about H1N1 flu

    1. No cause for panic. So far, H1N1 flu isn't much more threatening than the regular seasonal flu. During the few months of this new flu's existence, hospitalizations and deaths from it seem to be lower than the average seen for seasonal flu, and the virus hasn't dramatically mutated. That's what