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  • Beale volunteers help community build homes

    Through gusty winds and slippery rain, warm temperatures and hot sun, members from Team Beale have braved the weather to help families build their own homes in an ongoing community project. Beale's Air Force Sergeants' Association Chapter 1372 has partnered with Mercy Housing, a non-profit public

  • Remotivation: a way to retain sharp troops with a knack for trouble

    One of the base's newest crew chiefs had a knack for getting into trouble, and it almost cost him his career. But thanks to Lackland Air Force Base's remotivation program and a caring team of supervisors, he got "re-blued" and back on the job in just 30 days. Airman Joshua Clendening, 317th

  • Medical flight assists PJs to ensure 'that others may live'

    While pararescuemen often receive much attention for the heroics inherent to their life-saving abilities, the medical teams who support their high-intensity mission also play a major role ensuring "that others may live."The 38th Rescue Squadron's Operational Support Medical Flight ensures PJs are

  • Airman takes 'Fit to Fight' to new heights

    In today's Air Force, being "Fit to Fight" describes a fitness mentality that prepares us for the rigors of a battle. For Senior Airman Steven Cherry, 822nd Security Forces Squadron, "Fit to Fight" is a personal obsession that has taken him to new heights. "I began lifting at (security forces)

  • Shaw Airman represents Air Force in boxing

    A typical day for Staff Sgt. Rosey Summerville would mean going to work at the 20th Services Squadron lodging office, greeting incoming and outgoing Shaw personnel, but recently Sergeant Summerville took on a new venture -- to become an Air Force boxer. Currently, Sergeant Summerville is training

  • Maintainers save man-hours with AFSO21 changes to inspections

    When aircraft maintainers think of inspections, their minds may go crazy with thoughts of preparation and increased workload. However, the men and women of the 552nd Equipment Maintenance Squadron Maintenance Flight here saw the E-3 Sentry Isochronal Inspection process as an opportunity for

  • Moody member turns 'scribbles' into books

    They just started as doodles. Not the pencil- or pen-scrawled sketches of a daydreaming student, but a drawing of words meant to help tell her thoughts. Never in her dreams did Theresa Allen expect them to become a published book. The doodles then grew into second and third books, with two more on

  • Eating a mobility elephant: First end-to-end look at 552nd mobility process

    "Management by Hero" is how Maj. Chris Stoner, 552nd Air Control Wing deployments officer, described the wing's old mobility process. "We were beating our mobility folks up in order to get crews out the door," said Lt. Col. Anthony Deckard, 552nd Operations Group. "At every point along the process

  • Holloman chefs work nights to provide morning pastries

    Sweet aromas of fresh-baked cakes, biscuits and cookies fill the air in the Wagon Wheel Dining Facility. But these treats aren't ready to eat just yet. After all, it isn't lunch or dinner time. It's 2 a.m., and the ovens are still running as they do here every night. Much like the fairy-tale elves

  • Bataan Death March survivor visits Holloman, reflects on his past

    Preserve and persevere. Bataan Death March survivor, Retired Chief Master Sgt. Robert Brown, said he had two rules when he found himself a prisoner of war, and then on the Bataan Death March during World War II. Rule number one: take one more step. Rule number two: when you think you can't take