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  • Reindeer on the radar: 7 SWS continues Santa Tracker tradition

    On Christmas Eve, U.S. Space Force Guardians of the 7th Space Warning Squadron (7 SWS) at Beale Air Force Base picked up an unusually jolly radar signature flying over North America. 7 SWS provides missile warning, missile defense and space domain awareness for the West Coast. But today, these

  • Egress to Excellence: Charlie Toomer’s Story

    Charlie Toomer, 9th Maintenance Squadron egress systems craftsman, joined the Air Force in November of 1970. Originally from Georgia, he wanted to follow his brother and work on the railroad.However, with the Vietnam War raging on, his draft number came up and Toomer was given a choice; get placed

  • Team Beale continues winter tradition of trimming holiday tree

    For most, putting the star on the top of the tree might mean pulling out a step ladder. For the 9th Civil Engineer Squadron’s (CES) electrical systems shop on Beale, things are a little bigger—they trim the tree from the bucket of a truck.Michael Davis, a 9th CES high voltage electrician, has been

  • Deployed to Lead: Beale Airmen Power Expeditionary Operations

    Airmen from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing prepared for departure to become deployed Airmen under U.S. Central Command’s Combined Air Component – Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central). Beale’s deployers were joined by family, friends and fellow Airmen to see them off. It was an emotional gathering, but

  • Airport Bureau dog teams sniff out Dragon Town

    Dragon Town is a training village. It is most often used by the 9th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) to practice clearing buildings. Today, it was the used by six dog teams of the Explosive Detection K9 unit from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office-- Airport Bureau. Two more teams from Beale’s own

  • Wheatland Union High School football team touches down on Beale AFB

    Those diverse experiences with the Air Force influenced Crawley as a teacher and a coach and, “helped [him] communicate with different groups of students.” When asked if there was much similarity between the training he received in the Air Force and the skills he teaches on the football field, he

  • Beale Innovation Team Members Spark Course Impacting Force of the Future

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Over the past 6 months, the Beale Innovation Team attended multiple temporary duties (TDY) tackling innovation combat employment under the name Combat Innovation Task Force with the premise that if Airmen were in a contested environment on an island, would they be able

  • First Female Hispanic Pilot Shares Her Journey, Suits Up after 40 Years

    BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – After a career of breaking barriers, Lt. Col. Custodio retired from the Air Force without taking part in one last tradition among pilots: her fini-flight. Team Beale celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with cultural presentations, dancing, food and a visit from the

  • Habu Brats Return to Beale AFB After 50 Years

    BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Fifty years after the Wheatland Union High School (WUHS) Class of 1974 graduated, 25 alumni known as the “Habu Brats,” returned to Beale Air Force Base, where many of their parents supported the legendary SR-71 Blackbird program.