• DOD announces same-sex spouse benefits

    Today, the Department of Defense announced its plan to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of uniformed service members and Department of Defense civilian employees, according to a DOD news release issued today.After a review of the department's benefit policies following the Supreme Court's ruling

  • ABC’s of back to school safety

    As August marks the beginning of the end of summer, parents and those who drive past Arnold Drive Elementary and Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School Flightline Upper Academy are to be mindful that now that school has begun for the Flightline Upper Academy and will begin Monday for Arnold Drive,

  • 19th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Aircraft Structural Maintenance

    Staff Sgt. Maxwell Roberts, a 19th Equipment Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance craftsman, repairs and replaces a broken faceplate August 8, 2013 at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. The 19th EMS aircraft structural maintenance shop designs, repairs and fabricates aircraft

  • Team Little Rock Member Shows Core Values at Work and Home

    Situations and circumstances are the building blocks of one's personality and outlook on life. Whether you have had positive experiences and opportunities that have placed you on the easy road to success or have learned lessons and triumphed over mistakes or difficult obstacles, these life

  • Pentagon announces reduction in TLR civilian furlough days

    Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees who have had to take a weekly unpaid day off from work since July 8 are getting some relief, as the total number of furlough days has been reduced from 11 to six, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced today.Here is the complete text of

  • Hit & Run

    Struck by a car and left for dead, Senior Master Sgt. Maurice Milstead was experiencing every cyclist's nightmare scenario. On February 14, 2012, the 19th Equipment Maintenance Squadron fabrication flight superintendent, set off to work like any other morning. He woke up around 4:30 a.m., made his

  • Photo Essay-Major Accident Response Exercise

    Team Little Rock demonstrated its first responder capabilities during a major accident response exercise July 24, 2013, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.The MARE gave an opportunity for TLR emergency response personnel to test readiness during a simulated disaster and evaluate emergency

  • Aircraft parts store supplies maintainers

    Airmen on the flight hear an alert on the radio, there is an aircraft coming in with an inflight emergency, a part is broken on a C-130 Hercules aircraft; maintainers scurry to the flight line but when they check their supply kit the parts they need are not present. That's when maintainers rely on

  • CMSAF visits the Rock

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody visited with Team Little Rock Airmen during a trip to Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., July 16 and 17. Cody attended numerous briefs and talked with Airmen on a personal level, holding several face-to-face question and answer sessions with all ranks.