Early preparation key for NORI

Base personnel are urged to prepare for the upcoming Nuclear Operational Readiness Inspection in 2009. The NORI, held prior to the ORI, will evaluate the wing on its ability to support U.S. Strategic Command and its global mission. The wing will generate a required amount of aircraft and aircrews to

'Don't get the rear, win it all' at Combat Field Day

The 818th Contingency Response Group "took the head" at the 621st Contingency Response Wing's bi-annual Combat Field Day here June 27, winning five of the seven events. The wing was divided into four teams: the 816th Contingency Response Group, the 817th Contingency Response Group, the 818th CRG and

Fleeting moment

Program offers enlisted members chance to LEAD

Enlisted Airmen with eyes on U.S. Air Force Academy appointments may have their chance to become an officer through the Leaders Encouraging Airman Development program. The program, initiated in 1995 by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, the former Air Force chief of staff, delegates authority to unit and wing

Tuskegee Airman dies

Retired Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, 87, one of the famed "Tuskegee Airmen" who broke the military's color barrier by becoming a World War II fighter pilot, died June 24 in Atlanta. Colonel Dryden was born Sept. 16, 1920 in New York City to Jamaican parents. He graduated from Peter Stuyvesant High