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  • 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

  • Emeril live comes to Ellsworth

    What do an award-winning chef, southern cuisine with a modern flair and a top-notch NCO all have in common?They're all the embodiment of Tech. Sgt. Wesley Williams, who is heading to Emeril Live later this year. A producer, sound technician and cameraman visited Ellsworth March 13 and

  • Sergeant overcomes obstacles, selected for OTS

    A Moody Airman's commitment to studying whenever he could put down his weapon during deployments recently paid off. Tech. Sgt. Frank Mailki, 823rd Security Forces Squadron, was selected to attend Officer Training School this summer after completing his bachelor's degree in criminal justice. "I had a

  • Moody flight engineer defeats cancer, returns with 'Survivor Flight'

    It had been 24 months and 12 days since one of his doctors told him he had cancer in his neck, that he would most likely be medically discharged and should probably forget about ever flying again. But as he stood in the sunshine beside his Pave Hawk, preparing for his return to flying status, Master

  • Third generation joins top 5 percent in scouts

    His grandfather earned the award in 1939. His father also earned the award in 1978. Now the third generation has stepped up to the challenge. Charles W. "Chip" Williamson IV, 17, son of Col. Charles W. Williamson III, Headquarters Air Intelligence Agency staff judge advocate, received the Boy

  • Keeping B-1s over the bad guys

    Ellsworth's B-1 carries the largest payload of weapons in the Air Force inventory, can loiter over the target area for extended periods of time and its 120,000-plus pounds of thrust can get it on top of America's adversaries anywhere in the world at a time of the combatant commander's choosing. But