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April 4, 2019
Scouts take part in 2-day camporee at Columbus AFB, connect with Team BLAZE

Over 150 members of Scouts, Boy Scouts of America, visited and toured Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, to learn about various jobs in the military and the 14th Flying Training Wing’s mission March 29-31.
April 4, 2019
Blaze Arena: Airmen boost gas mask confidence with new chamber

The new way ahead for chemical biological, radiological and nuclear training at Columbus Air Force Base began March 28, as 17 Airmen donned their gas mask and stepped into the Blaze Arena to build their gas mask confidence.
April 4, 2019
MaxACTS brings bright ideas, nursing pods to Maxwell

The Max Airmen Creating Tomorrows Solutions initiative, or MaxACTS, brings Airmen’s ideas to life here.MaxACTS was developed by 42nd Air Base Wing leadership to give Airmen the opportunity to present their ideas and have them possibly implemented.In the few months since MaxACTS has been up and
April 3, 2019
Holloman hosts air-to-ground integration exercise

Holloman hosted combat rescue officers from the 351st Special Warfare Training Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, March 12-14, 2019.
April 3, 2019
Leaders in air, space and parachutes

Airmen from the 47th Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment flight have gone geospatial. Well – kind of. On March 26, 2019, Tommy Sondag and Staff Sgt. Jake Strait, 47th OSS aircrew flight equipment parachute technicians, made their way east to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,
April 3, 2019
2019 U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School applications due May 29

Application packages for the 2019 U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School selection board are due by May 29.
April 3, 2019
Commentary: creating high performance through job satisfaction

Do you like your job? Do your Airmen like their jobs? If you answered no, why? How you answer those questions can say a lot about your organization. Believe it or not, you can create a better workplace for your Airmen.
April 2, 2019
Annual Haboob Havoc competition brings comradery, fighter pilot retention to Luke

Luke Air Force Base leadership held the 5th annual fighter pilot competition known as Haboob Havoc March 25 – 29.
April 1, 2019
607th ACS all female mission makes history

For the first time in Air Force history, the Command and Control Battle Management Operations career field executed a mission on its newest weapon system, the Battlefield Control System, with an entirely female crew. From scheduling and mission planning to communications equipment set up and
April 1, 2019
Holloman Solar Observatory

Editor’s note: This is the first in a four part series of articles on the solar observatory.Just as local weather flights provide the base command post notifications and alerts of heat stress, thunderstorms, or high winds, the Holloman Air Force Base Solar Observatory has provided Department of