• Rock Aerial Porters honor fallen comrade

    With synchronized and precise movements, the columns in the flight pivoted around the street corner. After the last column cleared the corner, the flight was stepping in unison, left and right feet gracing the pavement one after the other. With the guide-on held high and the pack of port dogs from

  • The legacy of a fighter, caregiver

    (Editor's Note: Senior Airman Regina Agoha, 19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, wrote a story about Mrs. Gayles in Oct. 2012, highlighting breast cancer awareness and celebrating Gayles being a survivor for 11 years).She cared for countless children over a 25 year span, she celebrated life with her

  • This is Public Affairs

    "Is this TMO?" Daily visitors to building 1255, the consolidated support center, often pop into room 138, the former home of the Traffic Management Office looking for Wingate Travel or help with household good shipments. While this question has become a running joke within the Public Affairs office

  • Airman's initiative soars

    Airmen are always encouraged to set themselves apart from the group and think outside the "box." They have been told to be innovative, an exemplification of the core values and a true example to the generations that will follow. Senior Airman Yolanda Gabriel, a 19th Comptroller Squadron financial

  • AF leaders: Sequestration, more budget cuts will be devastating

    Sequestration would leave the Air Force with untrained people, a lack of equipment and be "devastating" to the service, officials said Feb. 7.The warning echoes what Department of Defense officials have stated for months about across-the-board defense cuts, in addition to an ongoing continuing

  • 152nd Airlift Wing hosts interfly operations

    The highest point in Nevada is 13,147 feet. The highest in Arkansas is 2,753. Airmen from the Natural State recently visited here for an interfly to help accustom them and their C-130J aircraft to the steep mountains, high altitude and high desert that's so similar to Afghanistan. Throughout

  • Airmen in the Attic

    For some first-term Airmen, it can be quite difficult and a bit scary, leaving home and starting a completely new life. Trying to survive on an airman's income is not always easy, especially if that Airman has dependents. The Airman's Attic is a place located on most, if not all, Air Force bases,

  • CUI Preparation: Awareness of Intelligence Oversight

    Since the implementation of the Patriot Act in 2001, many people are under the impression that DoD agencies are constantly gathering information on all U.S. persons, all the time. However, this is not the case.A Presidential Executive Order, a DoD regulation, and AFI 14-104 define the intelligence

  • Air Force implements civilian hiring freeze

    Air Force senior leaders directed a force-wide hiring freeze among other workforce actions in a memorandum sent to senior commanders Jan. 16.The actions are part of the Air Force's efforts to pursue reversible or recoverable steps to avoid impacts to core readiness caused by the looming possibility