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  • Mask confidence training offered to McChord Airmen

    More than 80 Team McChord Airmen participated in unique training designed to enhance members’ confidence in wearing the gas mask and protective gear during chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training March 1 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

  • McConnell crews complete first local flights, refueling

    On Feb. 26 and 27, 344th and 924th Air Refueling Squadrons crews flew two aircraft on local sorties. The Feb. 26 crew refueled a C-17 Globemaster III, marking the first time the KC-46 has accomplished air refueling since the Air Force took charge of the new aircraft on Jan. 25.

  • En Route Patient Staging Facility: where medicine meets mobility

    Patients across U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility who require various degrees of medical treatment often find their way to Al Udeid, where they are met with open arms from Airmen of the 379th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron’s En Route Patient Staging Facility.

  • Grissom steps up pilot recruiting to combat shortage

    Without pilots the 434th Air Refueling Wing would be known as the static display wing. A dip in the number of pilots Air Force-wide has units hustling to fill vacancies. Grissom is among those increasing recruiting initiates to keep the cockpits filled and in the 434th ARW’s case the fuel flowing.

  • 446th AW Reservists refuel, train with KC-46

    Team McChord performed an aerial refueling in the C-17 Globemaster III during a series of special missions to train KC-46 Pegasus aircrew Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, for the first time ever.

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen return to hometown to recruit the next generation

    Sharing the spotlight with the Air Force’s largest transport aircraft, were two native sons from Laredo, Senior Master Sgt. Alfonso Cervantes and Master Sgt. Guillermo Jalomo, 68th Airlift Squadron loadmasters. Cervantes, a J.W. Nixon High School graduate, and Jalomo, a United High School graduate,

  • 2018 AFRC Medical Award winners

    ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — Congratulations to the following 2018 AFRC Medical Award winners:Outstanding Field Grade Officer assigned to a Reserve Medical Unit:Maj. Jennifer A. Fong, 926th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Nellis AFB, NevadaOutstanding Company Grade Officer assigned to a Reserve Medical

  • 60th, 349th MXGs earn AMC awards

    “The 60th and 349th Maintenance Groups at Travis Air Force Base, California, are firing on all cylinders,” said Col. David Hammerschmidt, 60th MXG commander. Recently, the two groups were awarded five Air Mobility Command awards.