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Features

  • Wingmen: AF firefighters are life-long friends

    It's rare that two life-long friends can say they've traveled all around the country and the world in the military - together. But that's the case with Senior Airmen Jason Barnett and Andrew Nelson. The two wingmen grew up together in the Nutmeg State, attended and graduated from Connecticut

  • Retired APS chief recalls Iran hostage ordeal

    Guests at Chief Master Sgt. Henry Lojkuc's (pronounced "Lo-check") recent retirement ceremony would never guess the unassuming and deferential aerial porter was ever a player in world affairs. But for one month in 1979, he was a hostage in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution.It's Valentine's Day,

  • Air Force Reserve nurses share passion for healing

    Years before Dana Fisk was old enough to join the military, she instinctively connected with her family's military heritage, through the distinct scent and texture of the uniform her grandfather wore fighting in World War II, and from gazing at the blemished photo of her great grandmother--who

  • Resource provider gives back to program that helped her

    Prior to a 2012 deployment, Senior Master Sgt. Natalie Gray attended her first Air Force Reserve Command Yellow Ribbon Program training event and learned about the benefits and help available to her.When the chaplain's assistant returned from her six-month duty, she learned how to cope with

  • Reservist adds key ingredient to life's recipe

    Somehow or another, cooking has always been simmering in Senior Airman Keith Smith's life.Before enlisting, he worked in the fast food industry, and his military occupation as a reservist with the 908th Force Support Squadron has food services as one of the five core fields. Even so, food wasn't

  • As a wingman, look for signals of distress

    Last spring, I attended the funeral of a friend, classmate and fellow veteran.His passing marked the second time in 2013 that a family friend had committed suicide.His troubles were many, and he hid them well. We spoke often and had many "war stories" to tell each other. I'd seen him at least weekly

  • 'Cardboard therapy' helps reservist's spouse

    For the past several years, the Yellow Ribbon Program has held events bringing together servicemembers and their families to gather information that assists them before and after their deployments. A Yellow Ribbon event held in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Jan. 24-26 was another opportunity for

  • Citizen Airman embraces the title--literally

    The sky's the limit for Senior Airman Adedapo "Odie" Odupitan, a medical technician with the 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron here, who raised his right hand and became a U.S. citizen, Nov. 8. Odupitan, along with approximately 30 other foreign service members, swore in during a naturalization

  • 'Lost Boy' finds new life as Citizen Airman

    Most U.S. teenagers who rebel against their parents, share a sibling rivalry, complain about their living conditions, or whine about the "slow" Internet connection on their smartphone haven't met Dominic Luka.In the late 1990s, he lost his father in the civil war between the central Sudanese