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  • Never settle: back 2 basics and instructor strive for excellence

    For eight weeks, Monday through Friday, shouts of encouragement and clapping can be heard echoing from the basketball courts inside Shellbank Fitness Center at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. No, these are not the sounds of a sporting event, but rather an intense physical training session called

  • Airman powers-through challenges

    Paris Roberts took a seat and cupped her head in her hands to massage the bridge of her nose.People rushed passed her with gym bags in tow, some scarfing down bananas and chugging protein shakes, some just talking about what they went through that morning, Jan. 17, 2015.Roberts shifted her head up

  • An innocent dream born from chaos

    In the early hours the morning of Dec. 20, 1989, when most living within Panama City were sleeping, a 10-year-old boy and his family were awakened by explosions and helicopters overhead. The family exited their home, only to witness pandemonium; buildings burning down, people running, screaming.War

  • A Salute to Heritage

    There's a place in each of Offutt's flying squadrons where Airmen convene.  A place that adorns squadron history on its perimeter walls, which helps bond that unit's heritage from its past to its present. Photographed wingmen, forever exempt from time, are always in attendance from display cases. A

  • Mentorship, a story like no other

    The lights were dim and the atmosphere was relaxed at the Patriot Club on Dec. 16 as four Airmen shared their personal story in the inaugural story telling mentoring event called 'The Long and Short of it.'This was Offutt's first story tellers event and the subjects included seeking mental health

  • 40 years of Red Flag at Nellis

    Some called them the "Iron Majors" though this group in particular went on to be known as the "Fighter Mafia." Never mind the title, that was the last thing on their minds as the group of the Air Force's best and brightest young officers congregated in the little known depths of the Pentagon's

  • Airman leads way in combating sexual assault

    Rape is a dirty word. But it's not the word that is dirty, it's the action.At a U.S. Air Force Warfare Center reporting unit, one Airman is going above and beyond to combat this violation to the Air Force, its Airmen and its mission. And the service's leadership has taken notice."He is the epitome

  • Living museum: Airman preserves AF uniforms

    Walking through the 20th Maintenance Group building, it would be appropriate to stop and gaze into the office of one senior leader there. Eyes would be greeted with several mannequins wearing different shades of green and blue, each decorated with metals and ribbons.For most of his life, Lt. Col.

  • 552nd MXG's ISO Dock rockin' big change

    The 552nd Maintenance Group is making big changes in the way the Isochronal Inspection handles maintenance and inspections on aircraft coming through their dock.Senior Master Sgt. Wenesday Traylor, Maintenance Flight chief for the 552nd Maintenance Squadron, said a group of Tinker maintainers went

  • Ending of an era: 23d EMS performs last HC-130P ISO inspection

    It's a chilling 36 degrees in the isochronal (ISO) hangar, but as drills turn and everyone works diligently, no one seems to notice.They're all focused on the final ISO inspection of aircraft 65-0986, the last HC-130P Combat King II that will undergo an ISO inspection at Moody Air Force Base,