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  • Luke Airmen defend Bagram against attack

    On May 19, at Bagram Air Base Afghanistan two 56th Security Forces Squadron Airmen, engaged in a fire fight with multiple insurgents when they tried to breach the perimeter of the base.Senior Airman Keegan Donnelly and Airman 1st Class Dustin Barnes were only two months into their first deployment

  • AFRS films Lackland training

    Building on the recent success of its Web site's basic military training video, the Air Force Recruiting Service returned to Lackland June 21-25 to film several technical school career fields for a new AirForce.com technical training video.The new video is part of the AirForce.com content

  • JBSA Airmen pay tribute to family

    The flag at half staff behind the 37th Training Wing headquarters building during the basic military training graduation parade June 25 served as a visual reminder.But it wasn't necessary for Marie Campbell. The date -- June 25, 1996 -- is unforgettable for her and 18 other families. On that day 14

  • All military medical training roads now start at METC

    The future of military medical training arrived at Fort Sam Houston in a big way June 30 with the opening of the sprawling Medical Education and Training Campus.The METC, the crown jewel of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission's mandates for Fort Sam Houston, is an integrated campus

  • MC-12W site survey team visits Altus

    Altus AFB hosted the MC-12W site survey team from headquarters Air Combat Command June 22-24. The purpose of the visit was to provide a thorough evaluation of the base infrastructure, in support of basing up to 37 MC-12W aircraft on the installation. The primary mission of the MC-12W is providing

  • VA Hospital gives soldiers early holiday

    They're helping veterans everyday in their facility but their care goes beyond the hospital. Staff at the West Texas VA Medical Center in Big Spring, Texas, and the Big Spring community teamed up in June to give deployed servicemembers an unexpected holiday with Operation Soldier Holiday

  • Maxwell launches video, audio podcasts

    Maxwell Air Force Base entered the world of portable news as it launched a series of podcasts online June 28.Podcasting, a method of publishing broadcasts via the Internet, allows users to subscribe to a feed of video and audio files, listen to them on their computer and load them on a portable

  • Air Force trauma care consolidates with Army

    The Air Force's only Level 1 trauma center, Wilford Hall Medical Center, discontinues trauma services here July 1.All severely injured trauma patients from San Antonio, Bexar and surrounding counties, and South Texas, will go to nearby Brooke Army Medical Center or University Hospital in San Antonio

  • AETC's senior enlisted leader examines predeployment training

    Air Education and Training Command's command chief master sergeant visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst June 14-17 to gain first-hand knowledge of the Air Force predeployment training conducted here.Command Chief Master Sgt. Robert Tappana visited the 602nd Training Group (Provisional),

  • Dental leaders break ground on new clinic

    A groundbreaking ceremony took place June 24 beginning to begin construction of a 32,680-square foot facility to replace MacKown Dental Clinic, home of Air Force dental residency training."The new clinic will be almost double the size of the current facility, which was built in 1952," said Col. Jay