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  • Operation Soldier Smiles ... bringing smiles to the front line

    Operation Soldier Smiles is hard at work assembling care packages for service members deployed overseas, and Holloman's Airman and Family Readiness Center's new satellite office is collecting donations of items requested by deployed service members. Operation Soldier Smiles was founded Oct.1, 2004, by Maggie Fazenbaker, an 11-year-old 7th grader at
  • General Pace with Chaplain Joyner while deployed to Saudi Arabia in April 2006.

    Former Marine is Air Force chaplain

    From being a Marine field radio operator in an infantry battalion to a civilian police officer to an Air Force chaplain at Holloman, Chaplain (Capt.) Paul Joyner has lived his adult life in a uniform. Chaplain Joyner left for Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina six weeks after he graduated high school. That was in July of
  • After the faulty BDUs are lined up along with classified materials and other munitions, they are destroyed using C-4 expolosives to render them safe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Gordinier)

    EOD team blasts faulty ordnance

    Anyone near the Poinsett Electronic Combat Range here during certain times of the year may hear C-4 explosives being detonated by the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit. The EOD unit cleans up the range by picking up fired and faulty ordnance, including dummy bombs and other munitions, placing it in a pile and then using
  • Senior Airman Rodney Simpson (left), 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron intelligence analyst currently at Balad Air Base, Iraq, debriefs an aircrew member Nov. 17, 2006, after a mission. Airman Simpson is deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Josh Moshier)

    Intel flight saves lives at Balad Air Base

    Collecting information, analyzing it and then sharing it with others may not mean much to most people, but to people fighting a war, it's the difference between life and death. The 20th Operations Support Squadron Intelligence Flight has people deployed to six different locations, including five at Balad Air Base, Iraq, where they provide all of

  • Say 'no' to nicotine, 'yes' to health

    Years ago, nonsmoking airline passengers had no choice but to breathe in clouds of smoke as nearby passengers lit up cigarettes. Restaurant patrons inhaled tobacco smoke along with their meals. Air Force members and civilian employees had to breathe air filled with second-hand smoke as they worked at their desks. Smoking was the norm and accepted
  • 1st Lt. Holly Borowski, 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maintenance officer, breaks ahead of the pack during Bike Jam 2006. Lieutenant Borowski finished 17th out of 120 bicyclists. (Photo by Richard Anderson)

    Beale Airman named ACC Female Athlete of the Year

    One of Team Beale's own junior officers recently earned the title of Air Combat Command Female Athlete of the Year. 1st Lt. Holly Borowski, maintenance officer for the 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, earned the title of ACC Female Athlete of the Year for her outstanding performance as a professional cyclist. "I actually didn't really know about
  • Capt. Daniel Lee, 27th Fighter Squadron pilot, donated bone marrow Oct. 17. The donation could mean the difference between life and death for an unknown recipient. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Brandy Bogart)

    Fightin' Eagle pilot donates bone marrow

    Capt. Daniel "Magic" Lee, a 27th Fighter Squadron pilot, always donates blood when he can. Nearly 10 years ago at the Air Force Academy, he checked the little box on the form asking if he wanted to register with the National Marrow Donor Program. One extra test tube of blood was drawn - and he thought no more about it for several years. And then a

  • 820th SFG houses oustanding Airmen

    It's rare to meet one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year, but a trip to the 820th Security Forces Group here reveals three of them. Maj. Glenn Palmer, Master Sgt. Paul Schaaf, and Senior Airman Polly-Jan Bobseine have held the prestigious title, with the latter being named most recently in July. Airman Bobseine was deployed to the desert when
  • Staff Sgt. Scott Campbell, 266th Range Squadron ground radar technician, solders a transistor on a circuit card for the Multiple Threat Emitter System, or MUTES, on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Eric Petosky)

    Deployed Gunfighters train EWOs

    Deployed Air National Guard Airmen from the 266th Range Squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base, are helping B-52 Electronic Warfare Officers quickly identify potential aircraft threats at Andersen AFB, Guam, as part of the Air Force's continuous bomber presence in the Pacific. The National Guard Airmen operate, maintain and repair the Multiple
  • Riley Arnold, No. 33, tackles an opponent during a Junior Pee Wee football game at the Wheatland High School football field. Riley is a fourth grader from Lone Tree Elementary School and is the only girl on the Pirates Junior Pee Wee football team. (Courtesy photo)

    9-year-old plays with the 'big boys'

    One nine-year-old girl from the Beale community is blazing new ground in a game that was once for "boys only." Riley Arnold, a fourth grader at Lone Tree Elementary School, plays football with the Wheatland Pirates Junior Pee Wee team. She's the only girl on the team, but that doesn't stop her from doing what she loves. "It's pretty cool to be the
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