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  • Home team wins 'Hawgsmoke' crown

    The 357th Fighter Squadron won the Al "Mud" Moore top overall A-10 unit trophy during Hawgsmoke 2012, an international A-10 Thunderbolt II biennial gunnery competition held here Aug. 15-17.About 60 sorties were scored based on pilot accuracy in bombing, strafing and first-run attacks. The trophy was

  • 442nd Fighter Wing heads to Hawgsmoke

    The 442nd Fighter Wing sent approximately 45 reservists to Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., Aug. 15, to compete in Hawgsmoke, an international A-10 Thunderbolt II biennial gunnery competition.The competition allows the units to assemble pilots and maintainers, who were selected by their peers to display

  • McChord Airmen go from hot to cold on Deep Freeze missions

    On one of the hottest days of the year in Washington, Airmen from McChord Field flew on C-17s to one of the coolest places on the planet - Antarctica. Eleven 446th Airlift Wing reservists, 23 active-duty 62nd AW Airmen and one Airman each from the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron and 627th Logistics

  • Alaska Reserve unit rebuilds tornado-ravaged school

    An Alaska Reserve unit has just returned from Tennessee where the task at hand was rebuilding a school that was destroyed by a tornado in 2011. Members of the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron installed lighting units, rewired the facility to meet code, hung sheet rock, and painted the interior of the

  • Four Airmen bound by oath, blood

    Members of the Reserve can be considered brothers and sisters in uniform, but four brothers in the 419th Fighter Wing are literally bound by oath and by blood.Andrew, David, Timothy and Samuel Potter all joined the wing within the past four years. Growing up, they all say they considered joining the

  • Total Force F-22's first to employ small diameter bombs

    During a Combat Hammer exercise Alaska F-22 Raptors became the first operational F-22 unit to drop GBU-39 small diameter bombs.Although small diameter bombs have been employed by test pilots, Combat Hammer, a weapons system evaluation program sponsored by the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron, provided

  • New instruction puts spotlight on standards, culture

    When referencing fundamental standards, Airmen now have a single source: Air Force Instruction 1-1, Air Force Standards.As one of the capstone acts of his 39-year career, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff, put his signature on the brand new instruction, which communicates in one

  • Civilian employers get glimpse at Reserve way of life

    Civilian employers of 419th Fighter Wing reservists were given an inside look at the wing and their employees' Reserve careers during Employer Appreciation Day here Aug. 11.Employers took part in a variety of activities that displayed the wing's diverse mission. The highlight of the day was a flight