• Prepare now for end-of-year closeout

    Fiscal year end is approaching, so it's time to take action to ensure the items and services that are needed are received. Acquisition planning is the key to meeting those needs. While use of the Government Purchase Card remains the preferred method for obtaining small-dollar items and services.

  • New commander discusses role at LRAFB

    Editor's note: 314th Airlift Wing Commander Col. Wayne Schatz, talked about his vision, goals and plans for the wing in an interview May 21 with Tech. Sgt. Arlo Taylor, 314th Airlift Wing Public Affairs. An edited transcript follows: 1. Knowing your C-130 history, this assignment is a homecoming of

  • Goals for wing are within reach, needed to remain the best

    Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series about the 314th Airlift Wing Goals, Vision and Mission. As I reach the two-week mark back at "The Rock," I'd like to share my goals with you, the men and women of Little Rock AFB, to ensure we're all in-sync with each other in striving to be the

  • Annual training to test Guard unit's skills

    Training for war and preparing for an operational readiness inspection is the focus of this year's annual training, 189th Airlift Wing officials said. Beginning June 9, wing members better have their war game faces on. Wing members will jump right into a deployment scenario that will last for three

  • Little Rock civic leader recognized with Fisher Award

    Air Mobility Command recently honored Philip Davis, Little Rock Air Force Base civic leader, as this year's Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award recipient. The annual award recognizes an individual or organization exemplifying Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher's personal

  • 314th Airlift Wing changes hands

    Col. Rowayne A. Schatz, Jr. assumed command of the 314th Airlift Wing from outgoing commander Brig. Gen. Kip L. Self in a change of command ceremony held here today. General Self leaves the 314th Airlift Wing to be the commander of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center, Fort Dix, N.J. The

  • Guard recruiter receives national honors

    An Arkansas Air National Guard senior NCO recently was named the Air National Guard's Outstanding Recruiting and Retention Superintendent of the Year. Senior Master Sgt. Jesse J. "Buddy" Burns of Beebe earned the top honors, according to an Air National Guard message released in April. As the

  • Little Rock Airman Killed in Iraq

    Staff Sgt. John Self, a security forces specialist from the 314th Squadron Forces Squadron, was killed Monday by a roadside bomb near Baghdad, Iraq. Sergeant Self has been in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since September on a 365-day deployment. "John volunteered for this deployment

  • WIC Students Put Planning to the Test

    Students in the Weapons Instructor Course here put five and a half months of instruction the test last week during a massive force entry assault. Units from all over Little Rock Air Force Base participated in the largest Mobility Air Forces Exercise this decade on May 11. Students began planning May