Chaplain candidates tour Charleston

Forty-four chaplain candidates arrived here July 27 on the fourth stop of a 28-day tour. The tour is designed to give the candidates an introduction to the Air Force Reserve. Many of the candidates are in their first year of seminary and beginning to learn about what people do in the Air Force.

Air Force Reserve unit tests solar-powered cart

The new cart costs about $8,000 - roughly $1,200 more than its plug-in counterpart - but it could create savings over time through reduced utility bills and a longer battery life. With summer temperatures topping 90 degrees, March reservists are no strangers to the heat. June brought record-breaking

Farnborough Air Show 'something to tell grandkids'

Dreams danced off silver-tipped wings as more than a quarter of a million spectators attended the sold-out Farnborough Air Show in England July 13-20. For one couple, the dream will last a lifetime. Nitan Vadher wanted to surprise his girlfriend, Seema Chudasama, by asking her to marry him on the

Grissom supports Purdue scientific experiment

Air Force aircrews routinely fly people and cargo to different parts of the world. On July 28, a KC-135R Stratotanker crew from here took Professor Ephraim Fischbach of Purdue University's physics department, his staff and their cargo to Thule Air Base, Greenland, to conduct a scientific experiment.

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March aerial port ensures Marines are ready to go overseas

Thousands of Marines from Camp Pendleton's I Marine Expeditionary Force went through March ARB in mid-July on their way to Iraq. The base became the main hub for local deployments when Norton AFB closed in 1994. Air Force reservists in the 452nd Aerial Port Support Flight operate as a central

Homestead Airmen support humanitarian work in Caribbean

Fifteen Airmen from the 482nd Services Squadron here spent three months this spring caring for people performing humanitarian work in Trinidad and Tobago. The reservists fed Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines taking part in "New Horizons" and "Beyond the Horizons" 2008 exercises. These

Chaplain candidates learn about Air Force space mission

Forty-five chaplain candidates arrived at Patrick AFB, Fla., July 15. It was the second stop of their 28-day tour of military bases in the Southeast to learn more about missions supported by the Air Force. The trip to Patrick AFB included a tour of Cape Canaveral, the Air Force Space and Missile