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  • New York ANG welcomes Moody Airmen

    Two sister squadrons who share a mission to "protect, defend and fight" joined together at Camp Smith, N.Y., for 10 days of intense training that culminated in a field training exercise (FTX).The partnership between the 823rd Base Defense Squadron from Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and 105th Security

  • Real world training in a simulated setting

    Training is an important part of military life. Training can help with job proficiency, physical fitness tests or even firing a weapon. For those in specific career fields, such as Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's pararescuemen, otherwise known as PJs, training can mean the difference between life and

  • Exchanging more than just a pilot

    Exchanges are made between commercial industries in different countries each and every day. Be it consumer goods, services or raw materials, trading is continuous and ever-growing. The U.S. Air Force has taken a page from the book of big business and entered into a pilot exchange program with

  • Children 'deploy' to Afghanistan through Camp Desert Kids

    More than 50 of the Mountain Home Air Force Base's youngest Gunfighters received a glimpse into deployment life when Military Families United's Camp Desert Kids program was set up on base Oct. 15.MFU members travel around the United States hosting CDK for the children of service members who are

  • Little known site proves crucial to Air Force mission

    A site many people have never heard of, located more than 75 miles away from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, rests a secure facility that provides Air Force aircrews some of the most advanced training throughout the armed forces. The Snyder Electronic Scoring Site, which falls under the 7th Operations

  • POL members celebrate 50-year reunion

    Seven men who served together at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, in 1961 recently returned for a reunion sponsored by the 366th Logistics Readiness Squadron. The men were all assigned to the petroleum, oil and lubricant section on base and decided to come back to where their military service

  • Angel Thunder uses simulated injuries to enhance training

    Behind the Operation Snowbird building on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.., Oct. 11, University of Arizona cadets are in bad shape. Almost all of them have serious looking bruises covering parts of their bodies. Some have cuts beneath their clothes resulting in torn uniforms and blood soaked

  • High school freshman adopts deployed Airmen

    In March, Angela Hoffman rushed to her Galion, Ohio, home after a local photo shoot with a Mountian Home Air Force Base Airman who was in the area visiting his wife's family before his deployment. She hurried into her house and frantically began to edit the photos she had just taken. When her son,

  • Behind the vault door - ISR offers a rare glimpse into the classified world

    More than 30 spouses took part in a rare tour of the 497th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group at Langley Air Force Base, Va., Sept. 28, 2011. The 497th ISRG and its subordinate units are responsible for providing near-real-time, high confidence ISR data reporting to joint force and

  • Responding to suspicious packages

    A recent suspicious package discovered at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., resulted in 13 people being decontaminated and special measures put into place -- reaffirming the importance of being vigilant when dealing with suspicious mail and packages.Suspicious package responses are fairly common