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  • Airman's Roll Call highlights stress during holidays

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on stress from family responsibilities, expectations, and meeting end-of-the-year deadlines during the holiday season. The Air Force has several resources to help Airmen and their families cope with stress, depression and financial woes. Some of these services

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights tax time

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the assistance Airmen can receive from the Air Force to help get their taxes done. The deadline for filing your taxes is April 15 and that day will be here before you know it. All American citizens are required to file their taxes by that date. As

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights Veterans Day

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Veterans Day and recognizing American veterans -- past and present. This year on Nov. 11, the nation pauses on Veterans Day to remember those who have given so much in the defense of American freedoms and ideals. Americans can reflect on the foresight,

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights Voluntary Protection Program

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on a program that takes safety and occupational health to the next level. The program is an enhanced safety program that focuses on developing and caring for the safety of Airmen, civilians and their families. Simply put, VPP is getting every one of us to

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights writing skills

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights writing well as essential to good Airmanship. Every e-mail, letter of appreciation, official memorandum or any written communication represents the professionalism of an Airman and an organization. Writing lacks face-to-face communication including tone,

  • Airman's Roll Call honors 60 years of air, space power

    This week's Airman's Roll Call commemorates the past 60 years of the Air Force's supremacy of air and space power. September is the birth month of the Air Force, and for the past 60 years the men and women of the Air Force have continually defended America and freedom around the world. This week's

  • Airman's Roll Call looks at AF past, future

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights Air Force leaders' views about the past and future. Air Force leaders are meeting at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition in the nation's capital to discuss the future of the service  One of the highlights of the AFA

  • Airman's Roll Call notes importance of standards, discipline

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on standards and discipline, cornerstones of the Air Force's core values. Those core values are integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do. "Throughout Air Force history, a common thread emerges for our longstanding successes -- adherence

  • Airman's Roll Call: Fraternization

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on fraternization, a type of unprofessional relationship that can have major repercussions for Airmen both professionally and personally. Fraternization is commonly thought to be improper dating or sexual relations between an officer and an enlisted member, but

  • Airman's Roll Call: Veterans Day

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Veterans Day and recognizing American veterans, past and present. On Nov. 11, the nation pauses to remember those who have given so much in the defense of American freedoms and ideals. Americans can reflect on the foresight, courage and sacrifices of past

  • Airman's Roll Call: 101 Critical Days of Summer

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the need for Airmen to be aware of risks and opportunities for reckless behavior during the 101 Critical Days of Summer. By focusing on safety, however, mishaps and fatalities can be avoided. Airmen should be aware of the risks and consequences associated

  • Airman's Roll Call: 12 Outstanding Airmen

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on this year's top enlisted members, the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year.  An Air Force selection board recently selected them out of 33 nominees representing major commands, direct reporting units, field operating agencies and the Air Staff. They are

  • Airman's Roll Call: Achieve your personal best

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on starting an aerobics regimen now, not when your annual fitness test is a week away. Today's Air Force is expeditionary, and Airmen are being tasked to do more and do it more often. These tasks require Airmen to be physically capable of performing at peak

  • Airman's Roll Call: AF assistance campaign ends May 1

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on this year's Air Force Assistance Fund campaign, which ends May 1. The campaign began Feb. 9 and provides Airmen the opportunity to contribute to any of the four official Air Force charitable organizations. Now in its 36th year, 100 percent of the designated

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force celebrates 61st birthday

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on six decades-plus of airpower as the Air Force celebrates its 61st birthday Sept. 18. For more information about the Air Force's 61st birthday read this week's Airman's Roll Call. Airman's Roll Call is designed for supervisors at all levels to help keep

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force Climate Survey

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the results of last year's Air Force Climate Survey. Nearly a quarter of a million Airmen from across the Air Force components voiced their opinions in the Air Force Climate Survey, the largest online survey of Air Force personnel, from Oct. 1 to Dec.

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force families

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on families and the part they play in the Air Force mission. November is National Military Family Month, a time set aside to honor spouses, children, and parents for providing the rock-solid foundation on which the Air Force has stood for more than six decades.

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force Good Conduct Medal returns

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the return of the Air Force Good Conduct Medal after a three-year hiatus. On Feb. 11, Air Force officials brought back the Air Force Good Conduct Medal for enlisted members. This change is effective immediately and retroactive to when the medal was

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force offers benefits to Airmen

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the various benefits the Air Force provides many Airmen and their families so they can continue to serve. Among the many benefits the Air Force offers, the convenience of on-base shopping and availability of child care can make life easier for Airmen and

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force sponsorship program

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on a sponsorship program Airmen and their families can use to ease their fears about relocating to a new base.The sponsorship program is part of the Air Force Individualized Newcomer Treatment and Orientation program, or INTRO, which is designed to facilitate

  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force uniform issues

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz's decision last week to defer a decision on the heritage service coat until summer 2009. Air Force leaders said they owe it to Airmen to do the research, development and quality assurance necessary to

  • Airman's Roll Call: Airmen can now travel in utility uniforms

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Airmen traveling while wearing their utility uniforms. Air Force officials recently authorized wear of the airman battle uniform, battle dress uniform and desert camouflage uniform for commercial travel in an official capacity throughout the continental

  • Airman's Roll Call: Ancillary training

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on changes to Air Force ancillary training programs. A new Air Force policy streamlines redundant and outdated ancillary training programs and aligns expeditionary skills training with warfighter requirements. Air Force leaders are also addressing the time

  • Airman's Roll Call: Armed Forces Day, a time for thanks

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Armed Forces Day.In 1950, President Truman established a day set aside specifically to honor those in uniform that differs in tone from Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Air Force leaders urge everyone to take this day -- Armed Forces Day -- to thank Airmen as

  • Airman's Roll Call: Cyber threat training

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on things Airmen can do to prevent cyber threats from harming Air Force computer networks. Just like safety down days, Airmen are taking a moment to better understand how cyber threats can hamper the mission. This week, Airmen in units across the Air Force are

  • Airman's Roll Call: Diversity

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the differences between diversity and equal opportunity. The Air Force makes a distinction between diversity and EO. Diversity is mission-oriented and leadership driven--the way we should embrace our differences and utilize them to better accomplish our

  • Airman's Roll Call: Don't become a statistic

    Independence Day weekend is almost here and this week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on playing it safe while celebrating the nation's birthday this weekend. To ensure the weekend is safe for everyone and to prevent anyone from becoming a statistic, Airmen should make operational risk management a

  • Airman's Roll Call: Earning college credit

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on ways Airmen can work on their college degrees while continuing the mission. The Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support program allows Airmen the opportunity to earn college credits even when they do not have the time to sit in a classroom.

  • Airman's Roll Call: Easing deployment stress

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on easing deployment stress through personal and family readiness.Airmen with financial, family or other personal concerns may struggle to perform their duties at 100 percent efficiency at home station or abroad. The Airman and Family Readiness Center helps

  • Airman's Roll Call: Energy at the forefront

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on what Airmen can do to help the Air Force conserve energy. The Air Force is the federal government's largest consumer of energy. While individual Airmen can't necessarily control the amount of fuel we require for our aircraft, we can all do our part to ensure

  • Airman's Roll Call: Enlisted promotion process

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the enlisted promotion process, and features some information Airmen should consider as they prepare for their next promotion.Testing is one process Airmen need to prepare for. The purpose of promotion testing is to measure Airmen's specialty and general

  • Airman's Roll Call: Fourth of July safety

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on safety during the upcoming Fourth of July weekend. The Air Force traditionally experiences the highest number of fatalities always between the July 1 through 7 timeframe. The Air Force developed the 101 Critical Days of Summer campaign in the late 1960s to

  • Airman's Roll Call: Government travel card a benefit

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the government travel card, a benefit available to Department of Defense employees with the understanding it will not be abused or misused in any way.Use of the card is a benefit, not an entitlement, and Air Force leaders remind card holders that

  • Airman's Roll Call: how the Air Force buys weapon systems

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on how the Air Force purchases new weapon systems. In recent months there has been lots of talk about the Air Force and its efforts to replace the Eisenhower-era KC-135 Stratotanker. The Air Force uses a detailed acquisition process for its purchasing needs.

  • Airman's Roll Call: Joint expeditionary taskings

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses terms used to describe Airmen fulfilling nontraditional roles in the deployed environment. Air Force officials provide vital capabilities to the joint team in the war on terrorism, and part of the missions and capabilities delivered until recently fell into a

  • Airman's Roll Call: Leadership change, mission focus

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses recent leadership changes and Airmen continuing on with a renewed focus on the mission. During times of change, Airmen must continue to pay attention to detail and when necessary, make course corrections along the way to ensure the mission is completed with

  • Airman's Roll Call: leave management

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on leave management, and as many Airmen are aware of a few days away from work can have a beneficial effect them. Therefore, an aggressive leave program is an essential military requirement. A recent policy change increased the number of days members may accrue

  • Airman's Roll Call: Make safe decisions during holidays

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Airmen making safe decisions regarding drinking and driving during the holidays. The holiday season between Thanksgiving and the new year is one of the most dangerous times on America's roadways, due to an increase in the number of people who are driving

  • Airman's Roll Call: Managing stress during the holidays

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Airmen identifying and finding ways to deal with stress during the holidays. During the holiday season, Airmen may find themselves wrestling with a combination of stressors during this time. Some Airmen make holiday travel plans to visit loved ones or

  • Airman's Roll Call: Mentoring critical to development

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Air Force mentoring, a program designed to prepare Airmen for increased responsibilities. Air Force mentoring covers a wide range of areas, such as career guidance, technical and professional development, and leadership. The program's benefits include

  • Airman's Roll Call: Military training instructors

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the Air Force's need for more military training instructors to meet the demands of increasing end strength. Air Force officials will recruit about 4,000 additional enlisted Airmen per year during the next two years to boost manning to 332,700. Currently, the

  • Airman's Roll Call: Motorcycle safety

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the spring spike in motorcycle mishaps involving Airmen. Air Force Safety Center officials conducted a study of motorcycle mishaps from fiscal 2006 to 2008 and determined motorcycle fatal mishaps doubled in the spring over the winter season numbers. With

  • Airman's Roll Call: MyEDP sets stage for success

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on a valuable online tool available through the Air Force Portal Web site that guides Airmen through their careers and those they supervise or mentor. MyEDP, which stands for My Enlisted Development Plan, is a Web site where Airmen can find information on

  • Airman's Roll Call: Operation Homecoming

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses Operation Homecoming, a highlight in Air Force history. This week, 35 years ago, Air Force began airlift operations to return American servicemembers, being held as prisoners of war by North Vietnam, back home to the United States. For more information about

  • Airman's Roll Call: Opportunities for Airmen to LEAD

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights opportunities for enlisted Airmen to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy through the Leaders Encouraging Airman Development program. Initiated in 1995 by former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, the LEAD program delegates authority to unit and

  • Airman's Roll Call: Participation in the political process

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Airmen participating in America's political process. It is the duty of Airmen and all servicemembers to protect and defend the political freedoms of all citizens; however, those in uniform cannot give the perception that the military supports one political

  • Airman's Roll Call: PCS policy changes

    This week's Airman's Roll Call discusses two permanent change of station policy modifications that give Airmen more flexible assignment options. One change effects those in government funded, join-spouse assignments. Now, the time-on-station requirement for these assignments has changed from 24 to

  • Airman's Roll Call: Pentagon Memorial unveiling

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the unveiling of the Pentagon Memorial, a lasting tribute to those who died in the attack there on Sept. 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center burned in New York City as a result of two terrorist-hijacked aircraft crashing into them, a third plane struck the

  • Airman's Roll Call: Post-9/11 G.I. Bill rules outlined

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the proposed transferability rules of the new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill. Department of Veterans Affairs representatives are now accepting sign-ups for the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and Defense Department officials are working to get the word out about the proposed

  • Airman's Roll Call: Presidential inauguration

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the more than 5,000 servicemembers who will march in formations, perform in military bands and color guards, and serve in salute batteries and honor cordons for the 56th presidential inaugural parade and swearing-in ceremony Jan. 20. The group responsible

  • Airman's Roll Call: Quit tobacco

    This week's Airman's Roll Call offers Airmen who smoke a new resource to help them quit.The Web site, Quit Tobacco -- Make Everyone Proud, is an educational tool sponsored by Department of Defense officials to help servicemembers quit, both for themselves and for the people they care about.There are

  • Airman's Roll Call: Remembering Pearl Harbor

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and provides some facts to recall as this anniversary is observed. Classified as a defining moment in U.S. history, the attack stood as the most devastating enemy attack on U.S. soil until Sept. 11, 2001, another

  • Airman's Roll Call: Risk management

    This week's Airman's Roll Call reminds Airmen to be safe while celebrating the last long holiday weekend of the 101 critical days of summer.This year, the Air Force has lost nearly an Airman a week to on- and off-duty fatal mishaps during this summer's 101 critical days. The majority of these

  • Airman's Roll Call: Separating E-7, E-6 promotion release dates

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights the recent change in releasing promotion dates for master and technical sergeant.  After 12 years of being announced on the same day, they each now will be released on a separate date. Air Force officials say the new master sergeant promotion list now will

  • Airman's Roll Call: Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Web sites, campaigns and other events, observing Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Defense Department officials launched a new Web site and campaign April 3 that gives servicemembers fresh initiatives and new teaching methods to prevent sexual

  • Airman's Roll Call: Signs of domestic violence

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on supervisors and co-workers ability to identify signs of domestic violence in their fellow Airmen. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, reminding us to be alert for signs of violence and help those deal with their difficult situation. The Air Force

  • Airman's Roll Call: Special duty pay for military training instructors

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on special duty pay for military training instructors and the need for more MTIs. Pentagon officials recently revised Special Duty Assignment Pay for Military Training Instructors. The revision, effective June 1, increases SDAP levels for MTIs. According to

  • Airman's Roll Call: Spouse employment opportunities

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights an Air Force employment assistance program that provides spouses with to skills to seek employment in today's job market. Spouse employment opportunities are increasingly crucial to the recruitment and retention of Airmen, as many families need two incomes

  • Airman's Roll Call: Stay informed about PTSD

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on post traumatic stress disorder and its affects on Airmen. The war on terrorism has significantly expanded the opportunity for Airmen to be exposed to a serious traumatic event. Even though battlefield trauma is most often associated with causing PTSD, it's

  • Airman's Roll Call: Stimulus package to aid Airmen

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the $1.7 billion in Defense-related appropriations through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and what effect it will have on the Air Force.With a focus on Airmen care, families and environmental stewardship, the Air Force's portion of the stimulus

  • Airman's Roll Call: Summer Safety

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the 101 critical days of summer, the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Summer safety is important to the Air Force and its members. From 1997 to 2008, an average of 24 Airmen were lost each summer. Last year, 17 Airmen were fatally injured. Air

  • Airman's Roll Call: Taking environmental responsibility

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on Airmen and civilians being responsible for Air Force's environmental role. The Air Force continues to set the example as the nation's top customer for buying energy that comes from environmentally-friendly sources. Airmen should always look for ways they can

  • Airman's Roll Call: the new G.I. Bill

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights the recently approved G.I. Bill.  It will provide even more benefits than the current Montgomery G.I. Bill.  The bill will take effect Aug. 1, 2009.Some of the upgrades involve tuition, housing, books and supplies, tutoring and certification.  You can find

  • Airman's Roll Call: Thrift Savings Plan

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the long-term retirement savings plan Airmen and civilians can use to supplement their retirement plans. The savings plan gives investors the opportunity to lower their taxes each year they contribute. The taxes are deferred until the employee withdraws from

  • Airman's sacrifice remembered around the world

    While deployed to Iraq, Airman 1st Class LeeBernard E. Chavis was killed by sniper fire as he tried to keep civilians away from a suspected bomb in the streets near Baghdad on Oct. 14, 2006.To remember Chavis and the Airman he was, Air Force members here and around the world commemorated the

  • Airman's service helps unite his family

    Being away from family is nothing new to Airman 1st Class Nana Sefa, who is currently deployed to Afghanistan on a six-month tour; after all, it's only a quarter of the time he has spent away from his wife.Sefa, a 455th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle management analysis craftsman, deployed

  • Airman's sharp eye saves AF $348K

    As Air Force officials seek to institute a culture change through the "Every Dollar Counts" campaign, one deployed airman's determination helped to save more than a third of a million dollarsMaster Sgt. Ernest Harrison, 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron transportation management

  • Airman's talents 'brighten' wherever he goes

    The Air Force did not teach him these skills, but his gift has been recognized, and the units he has been assigned to have benefited from it. When he talks about his craft, he smiles in a way, which can only be expressed when talking about a true passion.Because of this, Senior Airman Sean Connolly

  • Airman's vigilance prevents aircraft mishap

    Airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aborted an F-15E Strike Eagle mission minutes before takeoff March 12 here when a crew chief noticed an oddity with the flight controls of an aircraft.Staff Sgt. Justin Wilson, a 494th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew

  • Airman's vigilance, quick thinking prevents tragedy

    While preparing for her night shift, Senior Airman Lanea Trevino noticed something odd about the shower stall next to hers. The shower supplies, visible through the half opened curtain, had remained untouched for the entire time she had been there."It was strange," said Trevino. "I had seen nobody

  • Airmen ‘connect’ with Iraqi villagers

    Most airmen deployed to nearby Baghdad International Airport live and work there, but a few have managed to mingle among the local residents.Besides doing their jobs, they said they feel they are building a bridge in American-Iraqi relations.“The Iraqis I’ve met are great,” said Senior Airman Matt

  • Airmen ‘drop the ball’ on New Year’s Eve

    With inspiration from New York -- the city that never sleeps -- Airmen at this desert base that never sleeps got to drop the ball this New Year’s Eve. In less than 72 hours, some 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron members constructed a New Year’s Eve Ball like the one dropped at New

  • Airmen ‘drop’ in to help islanders

    Airmen from here and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam -- and people from surrounding communities -- teamed to airlift Christmas supplies to people at more than 50 Micronesian islands. The effort was the 53rd anniversary of the Christmas Drop mission. Three C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 36th Airlift

  • Airmen ‘march to the beat’ in Tokyo

    Band members from units throughout the Air Force came to play in the annual Marching Band Festival held at this city’s Budokan Hall. The concert, on Nov. 18 and 19, is an annual event held near the anniversary of the founding of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. This year, a crowd of nearly 50,000

  • Airmen + Core Missions = Global Vigilance, Global Reach, Global Power

    No single core mission offers only one of the three effects of airpower—Global Vigilance, Global Reach, or Global Power—because all five core missions are necessary to provide the integrated global airpower effects that only the Air Force cansupply. And each Airman, regardless of their

  • Airmen 2.0: The Air Force’s human capital plan

    A panel of personnel experts talked about the way ahead for equipping, training and growing future Airmen as part of a discussion during the 2015 Air Force Association Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 15 in Washington D.C.

  • Airmen aboard hospital ship, providing humanitarian help

    For Airmen traveling aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort, 10 days spent in Colon, Panama, meant helping bring smiles to thousands of grateful Panamanians through the U.S. Southern Command's mission Continuing Promise 2009.From April through July, Airmen, along with servicemembers from all military

  • Airmen acquire MQ-9 maintenance responsibility in Afghanistan

    Airmen assumed responsibility of MQ-9 Reaper maintenance operations Dec. 1 here.Nearly 75 Airmen replaced a civilian contract force, making them the first servicemembers to maintain MQ-9s since they entered combat operations in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom."We're really excited to be

  • Airmen act quickly at accident scene

     When thrust into a surreal situation, three Airmen here stepped up and showed that people can do extraordinary things. It was around 1 a.m. Oct. 16 when Senior Airmen Brooke and Marc Llafet and Matt Ritchie were driving home from Fort Walton Beach, Fla. In the car with them were Airman Marc

  • Airmen adapt aerial port procedures to be more effective, efficient

    The 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron members recently re-evaluated their processes and procedures and decided it was time to fine tune the way they operate and move cargo here.Maj. Philip Shields, the former 451st ELRS Aerial Port Flight commander and Senior Master Sgt. Daniel Spain,

  • Airmen add ‘information armor’ to Iraq convoys

    When a convoy heads out on the roads of Iraq, it can be a life or death mission. Faced with violent threats from insurgents, the troops are armed and ready. But in this hostile environment, a “protective posture” requires more than mere Kevlar. Airmen of the 90th Information Operations Squadron

  • Airmen add armor to Army vehicles

    Fifty Airmen and more than 150 civilians worldwide are doing a very important job, but not for the Air Force. Vehicle maintainers from the 732nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron add armor to Army vehicles that venture off the base. “It’s kind of historic (and) ground breaking because we

  • Airmen add armor to convoy vehicles

    Airmen here are adding life-saving armor to large trucks to protect troops on convoy missions throughout Iraq. While these monsters of the road may look menacing now, it was not always this way, officials said. In many cases, their complete transformation can be traced back to the Airmen of the

  • Airmen add color to deployed environment

    When the Taliban took power in 1996, they imposed a new way of life and removed basic freedoms for the people of Afghanistan. Among those freedoms was the banishment of art. For more than a decade, art has been missing from this society. So a group of 39 artists from Task Force MED wanted people to

  • Airmen add up damage at Wake Island

    Airmen from the 15th Civil Engineer Squadron and the 15th Communications Squadron from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, are working around the clock to provide accurate estimates of the storm damage on Wake Island caused by Super Typhoon Ioke. Super Typhoon Ioke brought 155 mph winds and 190 mph gusts

  • Airmen adopt-a-village … or two

    Airpower’s “global reach” took on a whole new meaning recently, when more than 50 Airmen traveled to two villages, a few miles from here, to equip local Afghan children with supplies for their future.Airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing delivered bags filled with basic school supplies to about

  • Airmen advance to world triathlon

    The Air Force team finished exactly one hour behind the winning Army team at the 2003 Armed Forces Triathlon held at Point Mugu here June 16 to 22.It ranked behind both the Army and Navy teams with a total time of 25 hours, 49 minutes, 4 seconds. The Marine Corps did not have enough competitors to

  • Airmen advise Afghan air force

    Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing/NATO Air Training Command - Afghanistan, are playing a vital role in Operation Enduring Freedom as advisers tasked with aiding the Afghan government in establishing an operational and sustainable Afghan air force.

  • Airmen advise Afghan medical mission

    Between 100 and 400 Afghans are screened here daily for entrance into the Afghan national army. The first day of screening is the medical portion - an essential process for all would-be recruits to pass before becoming an Afghan soldier. Over a six-month timeframe, 2,500 to 3,000 Afghan recruits

  • Airmen advise Afghans on Russian-made helicopters

    Kadena Air Base Airmen are contributing to the readiness of the Afghan national army air corps by serving as advisers to Afghan airmen at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, who maintain the Russian-made MI-17 transport helicopter. Tech. Sgt. Dennis Flanagan, a helicopter crew chief, and Tech. Sgt.

  • Airmen Against Drunk Driving program saving lives

    Airmen Against Drunk Driving program, or AADD, and programs similar to it are potentially saving military members' lives. Every Friday and Saturday night, Airmen volunteer their time here to ensure other Airmen who have been drinking make it home from bars, restaurants, and parties safe. Since

  • Airmen aid coalition ground forces one leaflet at a time

    American Airman here and members of the Australian Defence Force recently teamed up to deliver critical information to Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq. Flying in a C-130 Hercules, Airmen from the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, worked in conjunction with Australians from Overwatch Battle

  • Airmen aid coalition with multilanguage skills

    Thought not traditional Air Force linguists, two multilingual Airmen bring a unique skill to Manas Air Base. Capt. Jecek Dempnaik and Staff Sgt. Maria Hudgeons, who speak a combined seven languages, reduce communication barriers between Air Force members and coalition forces through written

  • Airmen aid in Iraqi election ballot transport

    Members from the 321st Air Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here did their part in assisting Iraq in the election process Feb. 2. Maj. Scott Volk and Capt. Chris Dickens, both C-130 Hercules evaluation pilots and aviation advisers for the Iraqi air force, and Master Sgt. Louis Carter, a 321st AEAS

  • Airmen aid in search for stranded hiker

    Members of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here aided in search operations with local and state agencies to save a stranded man late Dec. 1 in the Sonoran Desert in Apache Junction, Ariz.The young man was hiking on Superstition Mountain, became stranded and was suffering from hypothermia.

  • Airmen aid largest movement of paratroopers in decades

    Civilian passengers catching connecting flights in and out of the Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana couldn't help but notice a massive formation of military cargo aircraft sharing their airspace. Beginning at dusk, nearly 30 cargo aircraft descended on the airport Oct. 18 as part of a

  • Airmen aid medical support mission in Chile

    Two members from the 5th Combat Communications Group deployed to Angol, Chile, in support of relief efforts after the Chilean earthquake Feb. 27. The team left March 7 and arrived in Chile March 11. Staff Sgt. William Kidd and Senior Airman Patrick Walters from the 52nd Combat Communications

  • Airmen aid Nevada flood relief effort

    Airmen here provided assistance to flood victims in southern Nevada on Jan 11.Four Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters from Nellis’ 66th Rescue Squadron flew to Caliente, Nev., to evacuate 118 students and 19 staff members from a youth center in Caliente to a school about 15 miles from the

  • Airmen aid Stop Hunger Now

    About 200 volunteers from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and the surrounding communities gathered Oct. 24 at the MERCI Mission Center in Goldsboro, N.C., to help stop hunger for the people of Afghanistan and to keep them warm throughout the winter. The volunteers prepared more than 115,000 rice- and