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  • Whiteman EOD Airman shares deployment experience

    Smoke rises from the Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, explosives ordnance compound -- the remnants of a 107-mm rocket detonation.Knocked nearly unconscious from the blast, Staff Sgt. Brandon Pfannenstiel tries to regain his footing and looks for his fellow EOD technician, Senior Airman Robert Wester. Ears

  • Just what the doctor ordered

    Trips to the pharmacy usually coincide with sickness or injury, and often times, don't conjure warm feelings for those seeking medication, but on the other side of the window, things are different."People think we just count pills and hand them out, but we do so much more," said Capt. Audrey Ameigh,

  • Seven smart ways to use your tax refund

    Taxpayers wait up to a year for their refunds and with tax season upon us, many often have a good idea of what they want to do with their refund, but some are undecided on how to put their dollars to good use."There are so many options, depending on where you are in your life," said R.D. Smith,

  • Stable family life makes stellar career

    Walking past the Smith family on the street, one may assume they are a just an average, normal family. Little do they know, this husband and wife lace up their boots side by side every day to do their part in protecting and defending America.Tech. Sgt. Elmer Smith, 4th Security Forces Squadron self

  • Helping Airmen fight through the pain

    When a patient is in need of treatment to strengthen an orthopedic injury, they take the long walk through the corridors of the Beale Clinic and find their way to the 9th Medical Operations Squadron Physical Therapy Clinic. Knowing full well what lies ahead of them, they mentally prepare themselves

  • 20th Bomb Squadron becomes angels to veterans

    For two years, members of the 20th Bomb Squadron have been giving back to the local community by volunteering their weekends to restore a local veteran's home.A Shreveport nonprofit organization, Woody's Home for Veteran's, provides a home for veterans suffering with chronic mental health issues.The

  • Whiteman chaplain returns from Iraq

    Chaplain (Capt.) Curt Cizek recently returned from Camp Bucca, Iraq, where he spent six months tending to the spiritual and emotional needs of base personnel, which included all five services, along with contractors and third-country nationals."This tour showed me how important God becomes to people

  • Adventurous NCO travels to ends of the earth

    When most people consider a winter vacation, places with sand, surf and sun typically come to mind, where one can escape plummeting temperatures and freezing precipitation -- not Staff Sgt. Barry Loo, 633d Air Base Wing Public Affairs six-year photographer.After four years of sacrificing and saving

  • Ellsworth puts 'bombs on target'

    Before the B-1B Lancer puts bombs on target, the ordnance is carefully tested and assembled by a team of Airmen from the 28th Munitions Systems Squadron.The team follows detailed technical orders, to ensure the process runs smoothly and safely, as they put together a Guided Bomb Unit-31.The GBU-31

  • This month in history: Pearl Harbor attacked

    "At 20 minutes to eight, the first bomb dropped and it was the loudest sound I've heard in my life," said Stan Lieberman, Pearl Harbor survivor and World War II aerial photographer. "Their target was the barracks at Wheeler Field, (Hawaii). That first one landed behind the barracks and hit a dirt