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  • Team rescues five during night mission

    Battling darkness, a dust storm and unforgiving terrain, Air Force Combat Search and Rescue forces here saved of five Soldiers who were stranded when their helicopter crash-landed in southeastern Iraq.Two HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters from the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron took off before dawn April 16 to find the Army CH-47 Chinook

  • Speedway launches Operation Appreciation

    Officials at Lowes Motor Speedway, Charlotte, N.C., are offering servicemembers discounted tickets to two NASCAR events in May through their Operation Appreciation initiative.The program, designed to show support for our troops, is a special invitation for Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines to attend the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge May 22

  • History Channel features segment on Predator

    The History Channel show Mail Call will feature a segment on the Predator remotely piloted aircraft 10 p.m. Sunday. Mail Call is a weekly series that answers viewers questions about technology, weapons and equipment used throughout history by the armed forces.A production crew visited Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field in March for filming

  • First Air Force: Organization provides top cover for America

    While much of the Air Force is engaged overseas, one organization has remained behind to fulfill a mission equally important executing Operation Noble Eagle, the air defense mission aimed at preventing terrorist attacks in the United States.Through ONE, 1st Air Force, headquartered at Tyndall Air Force Base, is charged with maintaining air

  • Family gives children health, hope

    On April 26, 1986, the worlds worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, now the Ukraine. Plant workers noticed something drastically wrong with a reactor and began an emergency shutdown a procedure that only takes 20 seconds. Unfortunately, that was 13 seconds too long. Seven seconds after they started the

  • Pilot wins Good Housekeeping award

    An unwavering faith, a good clean life and a sparkling career, not necessarily a clean house, has won a Good Housekeeping Woman of the Year award for a 524th Fighter Squadron pilot.Capt. Christina Hopper found out this week that she has won the Good Housekeeping Magazine Woman in Government Award for 2003.The award is for given to a women who has

  • Airman volunteers at burn camp

    More than 15 years ago, he spent 10 weeks in a hospital while the burns covering more than a third of his body healed.Today, Airman 1st Class Brandon Lee, an aircraft armament systems specialist with the 388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron here, volunteers as a burn camp counselor and shares stories about his ordeal with children who are

  • ACC announces Services award winners

    Air Combat Command officials announced the 2003 ACC Services individual awards Tuesday.  The winners will represent the command in the Air Force-level competition.The award winners are:Field Grade Officer Lt. Col. Frank D. Ladson, Shaw AFB, S.C. Company Grade Officer 1st Lt. Julie A. Hamiel, Ellsworth AFB, S.D.  Senior Noncommissioned

  • COMACC addresses e-mail use

    For todays warrior, information overload is a common occurrence and the amount of e-mail we receive and send must be reduced. Specifically, the time spent opening, reading, sorting, and filing e-mail is becoming unmanageable. Thats why I asked the ACC Administrative Communications office to develop the Commanders Guide to Managing E-mail. E-mail

  • ACC commander names top Airmen

    Gen. Hal M. Hornburg, commander of Air Combat Command, has announced ACC's top Airmen, who will compete for honors as the 2004 Air Force Twelve Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year.The nominees were announced during an April 15 banquet here honoring the 24 Airmen from Headquarters ACC, the Air Intelligence Agency, the Air Warfare
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