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  • Liberty warriors bring HEAT

    Liberty Warriors of the 77th Sustainment Brigade learned to survive truck rollovers on Humvee Egress Assistance Trainers Aug. 11 at the National Guard Training and Training Development Center, part of the brigade's two-week Operation Sustainment Warrior exercise at the National Guard Training and

  • 'Big Apple' goes blue for Air Force week

    New York has more than 32,000 natives serving in the Air Force today with 1,500 of them serving overseas. Air Force Week New York is a chance to honor hometown heroes from all over the United States. Besides aerial demonstrations from the Thunderbirds and other acts, Air Force Week will include Air

  • 2012 Mud Run: JB MDL continues ‘beastly’ tradition

    The 2012 "Beast of the East" Mud Run is set to take on as many as 5,000 runners here Sept. 8.Participants will have to low crawl, ascend, rope climb and balance through 23 wet and muddy obstacles in this year's 10K Mud Run."This year's 'Beast' is set to be the best one yet," said Julie Yuhas,

  • 87th CES responds to power outages

    Service members and their families may have been subject to both scheduled and unscheduled power outages here recently.These unscheduled outages stemmed from animals, including groundhogs and raccoons, getting into the Argonne substation on Dix. The animals caused the outages by crawling on the

  • Sister services enrich ALS experience

    Airmen Leadership School's mission statement for, "to prepare Senior Airmen to be professional, warfighting Airmen who can supervise and lead Air Force work teams to support the employment of air, space and cyberspace power," has a slightly different connotation for the Coast Guardsmen and Sailors

  • 18th Air Force welcomes new commander

    Lt. Gen. Darren W. McDew formally assumed command of the 18th Air Force from Lt. Gen. Mark F. Ramsay in a change of command ceremony today at the Scott Club at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The 18th Air Force is Air Mobility Command's sole warfighting numbered air force, and is responsible for AMC's

  • JB MDL units collect food for local families

    Some children and families across the United States need help getting food on their tables; a food-donation program here can help make that happen. The Feds Feed Families program is a government-wide effort led by the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, in partnership with the Office of Personnel

  • Next generation of combat care starts here

    The sun beamed with intensity as a Soldier struggled to pull his partner away from the gunfight. He needed to begin performing life-saving measures on a gunshot wound to his battle buddy's upper right thigh.The sweat on his brow as he began applying the hasty tourniquet was real, but the injury was

  • New civilian pay system on the way

    All Air Force civilian employees are slated to be using a new, standardized Air Force pay system by June 2013. The Automated Time Attendance and Production System will standardize the pay method across the service and will be implemented first at Air Force Global Strike Command and Air National

  • On time, on target Brigade welcomes new command sergeant major

    The 72nd Operations Brigade held a change of responsibility ceremony under overcast skies at Sharp Field here July 19.As Soldiers of the brigade stood at attention in formation, Command Sgt. Maj. James Herbert relinquished responsibility of the 72nd to Command Sgt. Maj. Berk Parsons."I am humbled,