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  • Cold War veteran receives Distinguished Flying Cross

    It's been 54 years since the secret reconnaissance mission over Soviet air space during the Cold War, but the Air Force did not forget about each Airman who flew the hazardous mission.Just three years after the Berlin Airlift and as Americans were still fighting in the Korean War, American leaders

  • Airmen need to act fast when identities are stolen

    When Lt. Col. Michael Welsh and his wife sat down for breakfast last year in New York City, he was expecting to pay around $30. Unfortunately the eggs, toast and coffee were about to drastically go up in price ... to the tune of $6,500. "It was just a little visit to a restaurant," said Colonel

  • Hammer ACE team ready for hurricanes, more

    Hurricanes, aircraft accidents, terrorist attacks and civil support -- for Air Combat Command's Hammer Adaptive Communications Element team, life is all about responding to contingencies. "That's all we do," said Senior Master Sgt. Dale Gibbons, the team's superintendent. The team at Langley has the

  • Med Flag deployment proves you can go home again

    Have you ever heard the saying "You can never go home again"? Some people might believe that, but Col. Victor Folarin, 52nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron commander, is not one of them. A native of Lagos, Nigeria, Colonel Folarin was tasked as the mission commander for Med Flag 2006 in Tamale, Ghana,

  • Ways to recognize, treat combat stress

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of three articles about Air Force combat stress control teams in Afghanistan treating troops on the front lines. Psychologists have said all deployed service members will encounter stress during their deployments. In fact, 50 percent of all servicemembers

  • Sergeant will never forget the day his son was born

    Staff Sgt. Mike Myers experienced one of the most frightening events of his life in Afghanistan, while the birth of his child was taking place more than 7,000 miles away. Sergeant Myers, a security forces member of one of the provincial reconstruction teams here, was in a Humvee hit by a

  • Program readies space professionals

    Who exactly is a space professional? Some might say it's someone who earns his living in space. According to the Summer 2004 edition of the High Frontier Journal, a space professional is defined as someone who is "skilled and knowledgeable in the development, application and integration of space

  • 9/11 'will stay with me as long as I live'

    Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Master Sgt. Dean Steele looks at the day as though it were yesterday. Sergeant Steele, a contingency skills training instructor and manager for the 421st Combat Training Squadron here, worked in the Pentagon that day. On every anniversary of

  • Meeting the challenge on the front lines

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of three articles about Air Force combat stress control teams in Afghanistan treating troops on the front lines. Fifty percent of all servicemembers who visit a combat stress control team at Afghanistan forward-operating bases are diagnosed with

  • Airmen reflect upon personal experiences of 9/11

    This Sept. 11, it will be five years since four airliners were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists and used as weapons against America, killing and injuring thousands and launching a war on terrorism that is still being fought today, both at home and abroad. Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that will forever