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Features

  • Airman answers higher calling

    What would prompt a 16-year enlisted Airman to get out of the Regular Air Force unexpectedly? For one 512th Airlift Wing reservist, it was a calling from God.Chaplain (1st Lt.) Kim Willis began her military career in supply and later as a mental health technician. Her life-altering moment happened

  • Military families open hearts, homes to foster children

    The 442nd Fighter Wing is all about family. Not only do these reservists respect and honor each other, but also they have supported each other's families and the surrounding communities for years. A few members of the 442nd Fighter Wing have responded to a calling within those communities that few

  • Nurse serves two worlds in Guam

    She promised her grandmother she would become a nurse. "My grandmother always wanted to go into nursing," said Capt. Betty Ann Buentipo, a reservist with the 724th Aeromedical Staging Flight at Andersen AFB. Grandmother had wanted to become a nurse but didn't have the money to pursue her dream.

  • Film 'chute' challenges skydiver to stay focused

    Skydivers are often asked, "Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good aircraft?" With 1,363 jumps under his belt, Staff Sgt. Victor Myrick, a reservist in Keesler's 41st Aerial Port Squadron, can give a motive behind the thrill he gets with each skydiving experience. "I love the feeling of being

  • Reservists show dignity, honor, respect at port mortuary

    Dignity, honor and respect are more than words for two reservists working at Dover AFB. It's a motto that Staff Sgts. Tracey Taylor and Christine Devera of the 512th Memorial Affairs Squadron live every day at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs, the military's only state side

  • Reservist leads double life as pilot, lawyer

    A recent magazine poll asked parents what professions they would like to see their children undertake when they reach adulthood. The top three jobs selected were doctor, lawyer and pilot. If this is true, Maj. Steve Bruce, a 315th Airlift Wing C-17 pilot here, should have happy parents because he

  • Aeromedical training benefits refuelers

    Staff Sgt. Kenny Stewart said let there be light, and there was none. And it wasn't so good. "I thought the bulb was out," he said, halfway through an aeromedical evacuation training (commonly called "AE" training) mission here. The day prior, Sergeant Stewart, a boom operator assigned to the 931st

  • Service in Iraq honors brother's sacrifice

    June 23, 2007, changed the Nathan family forever. On that fateful day, Senior Airman Jason Nathan made the ultimate sacrifice when an improvised explosive device detonated and struck his vehicle while on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. Now, nearly two years later, another member of the Nathan family, Staff

  • Air Force reservist gets chance to prove himself

    When Senior Master Sgt. Scott Clements drives around the flightline here supervising crew chiefs and making sure jets are ready to fly, people aren't likely to give him a second look. That changes when he puts on a pair of Air Force physical training shorts. "I was in a motorcycle accident four

  • Face of America: Liberty Wing Airman serves as world diplomat

    When Air Force reservist Tech. Sgt. Dawn Scott dons her sage-striped Airman Battle Uniform and combat boots, she represents the United States of America. As a civilian, she slips into a business suit and pair of pumps to do the same. Sergeant Scott, 512th Logistics Readiness Squadron supply