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  • Serving through the season: Airman 1st Class Christopher Boitz

    Each holiday season photos grace Air Force link highlighting Airmen working. However, rarely shown working is the one behind the lens - the photographer. Airman 1st Class Christopher Boitz, a still photographer with the 5th Communications Squadron, will be working Christmas Day. "I'd like to be home

  • Flying family performs mission together

    The 23rd Bomb Squadron here performed a standard training sortie Tuesday, which ordinarily would just be another day in the air. However, for this sortie, everyone and their brother, sister or wife showed up - literally. "Everyone" in this case happened to be brothers, Capts. Jeremy and Josh Holmes,

  • Shaw volunteers build houses for families

    More than 330 volunteers from Shaw helped build six new houses this year in the Habitat Drive subdivision in downtown Sumter and will see their efforts come to an end Jan. 15 when the last four families move in. The subdivision will eventually have 54 houses, said Bob Brown, local Habitat for

  • 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,

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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