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  • A life saved at lunch

    Airmen are trained to save lives on the battlefield. They are prepared to go into wartime situations where lives are on the line. The dining facility is perhaps one place one would not expect to find a life and death situation. This was not the case on June 19 at the Halverson Hall Dining Facility,

  • Ready for Rodeo: JB MDL teams prepare for competition

    More than 130 Airmen from JB MDL are preparing to head to McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 18 for Rodeo 2009 -- Air Mobility Command's premiere mobility competition. The international competition focuses on improving worldwide air mobility forces' professional core abilities and features more

  • Military Health System embraces social media

    The Military Health System is one of the many Defense Department organizations embracing social networking in order to provide information to and receive feedback from servicemembers. Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, director of strategic communications for the Military Health System, detailed the

  • All active-duty, most Reserve components meet recruiting goals

    All active-duty military components met or exceeded their recruiting goals in June, with the Marine Corps adding the highest percentage of its target to its ranks, Defense Department officials here announced July 10. Military Reserve components, with the exception of the Army National Guard, also

  • Report urges timeline for tobacco-free military

    The military has come a long way from the time when it packaged cigarettes in with rations, but more must be done, according to an Institute of Medicine report. The report, titled "Combating Tobacco in Military and Veteran Populations," calls for Defense Department officials to set a timeline to