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  • 'First-strike ration' aims for better nutrition

    Several military organizations are working together to provide servicemembers with healthy, good-tasting, sustainable and nutritionally sound combat rations. "We're charged with a fairly awesome task, and that is to fuel the Defense Department's most flexible and adaptable weapons platform, and

  • Kirkuk airmen train Iraqis to train Iraqis

    Lt. Col. Chris Spigelmire has defined success in Iraq, "The better we do our jobs, the fewer people they'll send to replace us until we don't have to be here at all.""The trick is," he added, "the Iraqi air force has to be able to do what we're doing without us around."Spigelmire, deployed from

  • AMC commander: 'Time to give thanks'

    For over 230 years our great nation has celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to recognize the many priceless gifts we enjoy as Americans. It's a time to appreciate and celebrate our families and our friends; a time to reflect on how privileged we are to live in such a great land of opportunity. For