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  • Protect against credit fraud and identity theft during the holidays

    With the holiday shopping season underway, servicemembers need to ensure they are taking the proper steps to protect themselves from credit fraud and identity theft, the National Guard Bureau's chief privacy officer said."Monitoring bank accounts, setting up e-mail or text message alerts to inform

  • Iraqi airmen demonstrate operational capabilities in Hellfire exercise

    Thalatha, ithnane, wahed -- the final countdown begins in Arabic.A group of nearly 40 Iraqi and U.S. airmen gathered around one of several monitors in the Iraqi Air Operations Center, the flickering lights from the control panels reflected on their faces. The silence was broken only by the crackling

  • Improvement event flying high

    Members of one Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center organization proved that a transformation project doesn't have to be elaborate. The operations and support office here replaced the type of flag flown in front of one of the buildings on base and found a better way to repair the lights used to

  • Major helps guide deployed Airmen through academic journey

    There are few things more frustrating in academics than struggling to find an answer or to understand a theory. The journey to find the answer can be quite antagonizing for students as they work through a problem. The struggle becomes worth it when they finally find the answer, as there is nothing

  • Recounting the lineage of 91st Missile Wing

    Nov. 10 marked a birthday, the 62nd anniversary of Air Force Global Strike Command's 91st Missile Wing, a wing with lineage dating all the way back to before the Korean War.Daniel DeForest, 91st MW historian, says it is a little complicated explaining the 91st MW lineage because, for historians,

  • U.S., French pilots swap, meet up on first deployment

    An Air Force pilot traded places with a French air force pilot and now both are serving here on their first deployments with their new units."I never thought we'd be here at the same time, especially on our first deployments," said Maj. Skyler Hester, an instructor pilot currently assigned to the

  • Joint forces unite for high-altitude training

    "All right, now go ahead and start counting down from 100 by threes," said Senior Airman Jeylyn Capdevilla, a 20th Aerospace Medicine Squadron operations and aerospace physiology technician, while directing the high-altitude simulation from outside the large air chamber."100, 19, 97, 94, 87, 77,"

  • Teen aviator at Scott AFB has bright future

    Everybody has personal obstacles in life they must overcome. For a 16-year-old from here born with cerebral palsy, his obstacles started at birth. Tyrell Rhodes was always told that he wouldn't be able do things that most others did. Fortunately, his mother kept telling him that he could do anything

  • Air traffic controllers ensure safe flow of aircraft

    Poorly-planned transportation systems can cause significant delays, which is evident from the millions of Americans facing deadlocked traffic on daily commutes. But there is no room for traffic delays when the vehicles include several facets of American air power.The 379th Expeditionary Operations