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  • On the flightline with maintainers - hydraulics

    (Editor's Note: This feature story is part of the "On the Flightline with Maintainers" series that focuses on the Airmen who maintain B-1 bombers and the impact they have on the Air Force mission.)Ellsworth B-1 bombers have provided the U.S. with ground and air superiority for more than two decades

  • Airmen ruck for vets

    Members of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base community participated in the annual Rucking for Vets event at the Colossal Cave Mountain Park in Vail , Ariz., May 11.Rucking for Vets is a grass roots effort led by D-M Airmen; the goal is to raise money in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. The

  • C-130 MedTrans

    Throughout the two-week Angel Thunder rescue exercise, the HC-130J Combat King II and the combat search and rescue medical elements who execute casualty evacuation missions, trained in providing critical care for more than 60 simulated wounded personnel en-route to better equipped medical

  • COLAF

    For an injured service member, being flown to safety in a Colombian C-130 is seamless in Angel Thunder, where coalition members participate alongside their American rescue counterparts to bring anyone, anywhere, anytime, to safety.In operations ranging from air drops, troop infill and exfill

  • No airpower without ground power

     "It's the life force for aircraft maintenance," said Senior Airman Austin Beard, 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment journeyman deployed from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. "If they don't have it, they can't troubleshoot their jets and if they can't troubleshoot their

  • ALS students donate furniture to veterans

    Forty six Airmen from the Airman Leadership School at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., donated furniture to local homeless military veterans May 4. Volunteer students spent about three hours loading a truck with furniture from the ALS building. The furniture donated by the school will be used to

  • JSTARS receives international recognition

    The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform was recognized as one of the "Big 25 [2012] biggest breakthroughs" by C4ISR Journal.Every year, the C4ISR Journal looks for new technologies and efforts that change or

  • Moving beyond PTSD: help is available

    Editor's note: This is the last of a three-part series on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.An estimated 11 to 20 percent of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 10 percent of veterans of the Gulf War, and 30 percent of Vietnam veterans suffer from PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of

  • ACC names 2013 Honor Guardsman of the Year

    A former Airman from the 366th Logistics Readiness Squadron was named Air Combat Command's 2013 Honor Guardsman of the Year at a spring leadership conference at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., March 26, 2013.Senior Airman Dexter Tapley, who is a vehicle and vehicular equipment maintenance journeyman