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  • Airmen learn to counter satellite-jamming threats

    When an unmanned aerial vehicle feed goes blank or a Global Positioning System receiver fades out, it may be only a momentary loss of signal.  Or, it might be deliberate jamming. How can an Airman determine whether the signal is being jammed, and more importantly, if it is, how can he or

  • Charleston loadmaster keeps cargo moving

    If his passport were to be stamped, it would have markings from Germany, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Cyprus, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan and Djibouti. And that doesn't show the times that this person has traveled across America from the East to West Coast. The list may

  • Urban warfare experiment draws many players

    Targeting crosshairs float across alleys and rooftops while one hand delicately nudges the ergonomic control sporting weapons toggles, and the other dances across the top of a box full of backlit red buttons and more joystick controls. Another set of hands grips a spiral bound detailed map and

  • From Russian tanks to Air Force trombones

    Staff Sgt. Vladimir Tchekan's life almost reads like a movie script. He has dodged tanks, was a musician in a popular rock band and even helped orphans in Thailand. Sergeant Tchekan is not a movie star, but he is living the American dream - Air Force style. Born and raised in Moscow, Sergeant

  • Military working dog and handler form bond in Iraq

    During his five-year Air Force career, Staff Sgt. Morgan Maul has had a variety of jobs as a security forces member. However, with his most recent deployed job, he's managed to build a special bond that he won't soon forget. With less than a week's notice, Sergeant Maul and eight-year-old military

  • Weather in 10 minutes or less, guaranteed

    The only thing faster than the weather satellites that the Airmen of the 6th Space Operations Squadron support is the speed with which those Airmen deliver weather information. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's constellation orbits approximately 525 miles above the earth.  In contrast

  • A better way to save: Keep money interest-growing TSP

    Saving for retirement is a good idea regardless of age and regardless of how you do it;though some ways are better than others. One of those better ways is to place money into the Thrift Savings Plan. The TSP has been around for 20 years and was established by Congress to give federal employees the

  • Balad combat weather flight ensures safe travel

    When Staff Sgt. James Brown steps out for the first time during his day here, he scans the sky. He already knows what type of day he'll have at work before he steps into his office because weather is his business. The combat weather forecasters assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support

  • Metal techs spark airpower over Iraq

    Dirty-fisted and in a shower of sparks, a metals technician helps shape the face of airpower in Iraq. Senior Airman Chris Redman, assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, proves his mettle here welding, heat-treating, fabricating and assembling metal components to support Balad AB

  • Major, NCO reconnect for retirement ceremony

    This is a tale of a career that has come full circle, proving once again that it really is a small Air Force world. In 1986, Alicia Graham was one of more than 60 cadets commissioned at Ohio State University as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. While a cadet in ROTC, she studied military customs