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  • AFSOC leads charge against "nature-deficit disorder"

    It's four in the afternoon, and the children at Hurlburt Field are ready to play. Like many children, they have many options for their free time. Rather than watch others compete in sports on TV or emulate it through a virtual world, they're outside playing with friends amidst the shaded trees, wood

  • First cadre of deployment transition facilitators headed home

    Ten minutes into his first mission as a convoy commander, everything had gone as wrong as it possibly could for Tech. Sgt. Lorenzo Zapata."The truck was engulfed in flames, you couldn't even recognize it," he said. "And the blood trail from the truck to the median looked like an animal (had been)

  • Joint task force Airmen save lives in Iraq

    Airmen assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Troy are dedicated to countering improvised explosive devices and saving lives of Iraqi and joint forces conducting Operation New Dawn.The assigned Airmen are involved in everything from operations to intelligence and information-technology support. They

  • Ellsworth weather wizards are on the job 24/7

    When the weather outside is frightful, Airmen at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., look to official guidance to keep them safe during these conditions.Meanwhile, the Airmen from the 28th Operations Support Squadron weather flight work around the clock to provide base personnel with the most accurate

  • Records detail MiG kill by 'Diamond Lil' tail gunner

    If the Air Force Academy's landmarks could speak, the B-52 Stratofortress near the north gate would have quite the Christmas Eve story to tell.The crew of the B-52D, tail number 55-083, took off from Utapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield that day in 1972. Their mission was to bomb the North Vietnamese

  • Military families receive comfort from Andrews Fischer House

    Although the 53 Fisher House homes around the world serve more than 11,000 families annually, many who serve don't know about the benefits the organization can bring to military members and their families during a time of need. The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that

  • 96th ARS aircrews take off with Total Force Integration

    The combination of adrenaline and excitement can be hard to hide in a person's expressions, but Lt. Col. Brian A. Hill wears it on his face like war paint. He runs on it. Several hours elapsed since he and the rest of the aircrew for the 96th Air Refueling Squadron's first operational mission

  • From water buffaloes to Humvees

    From spearfishing as a boy in the jungles of Thailand to where he is now, one chief master sergeant has lived through a nearly unbelievable set of events that led him to where he is now. All Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Pritchard knew about until he was nearly 7 years old was the Thai culture, until his

  • When Jack Frost comes knocking, CE knocks back

    Come sleet, snow and ice, or whatever the environment can throw at the northernmost U.S. air base in Japan, a crew of civil engineer jacks-of-all-trades are ready to keep the mission moving.Airmen from the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron band together with Airmen of the pavements and heavy-equipment