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  • Maintaining the hunt

    This week marks the monumental quarter of a century anniversary for the 55th Wing's RC-135V/W Rivet Joint presence in the U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility. The 1960s aircraft provides invaluable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to the Armed Forces, in turn helping to ensure

  • Retired CMSgt, GS employee retires after 52 years

    The year is 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy signs a law for equal pay for equal work for men and women, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech while addressing a civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., and The Beatles released their first single in

  • Jamming the enemy with joint integration

    Walking the halls of the 41st Electronic Combat Squadron is an unfamiliar uniform.Leaving the flight deck of the EA-6B Prowler behind for a few years, U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jonathon Leach from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, joins the Desert Lightning Team.Leach is part of a

  • The mobility machine

    Getting the right personnel to the right place, with the right equipment, at the right time, for the right amount of money, seems like a lot to get right, but for retired Master Sgt. Calvin Miller and his team this is their everyday norm.As the installation deployment officer with the 366th

  • 'Thunder' rolls at Fort Irwin

    They stand in the sweltering summer sun on a lake bed as dry as chapped lips in wintertime. Silence stretches throughout the empty valley and the occasional breeze offers little relief from the unforgiving sun's rays. Beads of sweat trickle down their foreheads as they communicate by radio with the

  • The lives of C-130J loadmasters

    The hot summer sun beats down on the flightline causing beads of sweat to drip down the faces of loadmasters stationed here, their hands red from securing the straps of cargo pallets.This is just another day for loadmasters assigned to Dyess Air Force Base. Their job is to ensure cargo is properly

  • It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Wild Weasel

    Soaring over the skies of Shaw, people might now see a flying weasel.That's because the 20th Fighter Wing's flagship F-16CM Fighting Falcon tail flash recently received a makeover to honor the 50th anniversary of the Wild Weasels.Half a century ago a group of pilots were nicknamed Wild Weasels for

  • 20th LRS Airmen's bond beats cancer

    Throughout the years the 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron Airmen have nourished a bond with each other that is so unshakeable and strong cancer can't even beat it.Staff Sgt. Scott Murdock, 20th LRS Vehicle Operations Control Center supervisor, speaks softly as he recounts the trepidation he has

  • 'Arm' shop: Works seven days a week for A-10 to bring 'thunder'

    Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, Moody's aircraft are prepared to takeoff and go anywhere to meet the needs of the Air Force. Flying operations never stop, so sacrifices have to be made by maintainers to ensure the aircraft are always ready.For four Airmen from the 23d Equipment

  • Viper Demo Team pilot 'Rockets' to new heights

    An F-16CM Fighting Falcon shoots into the air, flying at a speed of 400 knots as it is pulled through various maneuvers to demonstrate its capabilities.Maneuvering the aircraft through inversions, undergoing eight to nine times the force of gravity, and pushing the F-16 to its limits is Capt. Craig