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  • Recruiting quality Airmen remains top priority

    Despite an increasingly challenging recruiting environment, the Air Force enlisted 100 percent of its 2007 enlisted recruiting goals, bringing in 27,801 new Airmen during fiscal 2007. "The Air Force maintains high standards for recruits in (regard to) aptitude, medical (condition) and personal

  • Air Force meets, exceeds recruiting goals

    The Air Force met its active-duty enlisted recruiting goal for the eighth year in a row and exceeded its chaplain and Officer Training School accession goals for fiscal 2007. From October 2006 through the end of September 2007, Air Force officials brought in 27,760 new enlistees and 41 prior-service

  • LeeAnn Rimes headlines Air Force holiday radio special

    Multiple Grammy-award winner LeAnn Rimes recalls her fondest holiday memories as the featured artist in the "Red, White and Air Force Blue Christmas" radio special to be released in November. Produced and marketed by the Air Force Recruiting Service's strategic cmmunications division, the one-hour

  • MTI team graduates first Iraqi air force class, returns home

    A team of military training instructors returned home Sept. 28 after a six-month deployment to help establish a basic military training program for Iraqi air force recruits.  Six MTIs from the 331st Training Squadron and an officer from the 737th Training Group deployed to Camp Taji, Iraq,

  • Base supports deployed members

    Nearly two dozen people turned out recently to make cards from home and send them to deployed Laughlin members in time for the holidays, just one of the ways the Airman and Family Readiness Center supports the community."It's one of the Airman and Family Readiness Center's key roles to make sure

  • Today's finest teach tomorrow's pilots

    Three local children, who have been diagnosed with serious illnesses, suited up and jumped into the cockpit of an F-15 fighter aircraft Tuesday as they experienced a day in the life of an Air Force fighter pilot. The 95th Fighter Squadron hosted the children and their families during the "Pilot for

  • Action outside the wire earns Maxwell Airman bronze star

    The commander of Maxwell's 42nd Contracting Squadron recently received the bronze star for meritorious achievement during his deployment to Afghanistan from October 2005 to April 2006. Lt. Col. Cedric Wilson's job as commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency at Bagram Airfield required him

  • 2nd Air Force commander wins AFA award

    The commander of 2nd Air Force recently received the Sen. Ted Stevens Leadership Award at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C. In presenting the award to Maj. Gen. Michael Gould, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley praised

  • Air Force helicopter crew rescues man injured in wilderness

    A helicopter crew dispatched from the 36th Rescue Flight successfully rescued a 77-year-old man critically injured in the Selway Wilderness near Mink Peak, Idaho, yesterday. At approximately 5 p.m. Monday, the 36th RQF dispatched a UH-1N "Huey" to the coordinates provided via satellite phone by two

  • Air University working with Congress to offer new degrees

    Air University officials are working with members of Congress for authorization to grant three new degrees. U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, recently proposed an amendment to the defense authorization bill that will give the university degree-granting authority for a doctorate of philosophy in