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  • Security forces hold field training exercise in Florida

    Duke Field's 919th Security Forces Squadron held a field training exercise at Eglin's Field 5 during the March 6-7 unit training assembly.The FTX scenarios consisted of self-aid and buddy care, tent building, force-on-force movements, land navigation and prisoner searches. Twenty Airmen were split

  • Airman saves man’s life after highway accident

    A twist of fate found a 442nd Fighter Wing crew chief saving the life of a crash victim on the side of a hazardous wintry road in February. Senior Airman Jesse Farris was on his way to Whiteman AFB from his home in Iowa to work on an alternate unit training assembly weekend. After a few months of

  • Modern tool helps put history in its place

    When Mel Mueller of the Brevard Veterans Council and Veterans Memorial Center brought a 67-year-old silk parachute to the 'professionals' here to re-pack it for display at the museum, he was pretty certain he had come to the right place."During my Air Force career, I spent three years in the rescue

  • Air Force Reserve to get C-17s at Wright-Patt

    The Air Force will begin next year replacing 10 C-5 Galaxy aircraft with eight C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.The secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff approved the change March 12. Air Force officials anticipate that the first four C-17s

  • Command gets top maintenance award again

    For the second year in a row, Air Force Reserve Command received the Gen. Wilbur L. Creech Maintenance Excellence Award.Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz hosted the 2009 award ceremony in the Pentagon March 11. Accepting the award was Col. T. Glenn Davis, former AFRC A4 director of

  • Squadron reactivates as Reserve unit at Luke

    The pilots of the 301st Fighter Squadron changed their patch to the 69th FS during a ceremony here March 5. The event marked the end of almost a decade of Tuskegee heritage at Luke AFB."It has been a tremendous privilege to be associated with the Tuskegee Airmen and to have but a small part in the

  • WASP reminisces about receiving Congressional Gold Medal

    It's been 65 years since Margo deMoss received the heartbreaking news that she and more than 1,000 other Women's Airforce Service Pilots were no longer needed. Not considered veterans, Ms. deMoss and the others were released the same day they received the news and, without benefits or recognition,

  • Dreams come true with Tops in Blue

    After years of dedication and determination, Tech. Sgt. Katie Badowski of the 446th Services Flight here made her dreams a reality.Sergeant Badowski saw Tops in Blue, the Air Force special unit made up of talented amateurs, perform while she was in the Washington Army National Guard. She was

  • Social media policy balances Web 2.0 with security

    The new policy allowing access to social media from computers connected to the Defense Department's unclassified network balances the mission value of Web 2.0 tools and the need for security, a top defense official said. Since being hired as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public