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  • Beale receives final house of privatization project

    Balfour Beatty Communities, Beale's housing contractor, received the final house of a $91 million privatization project here Aug. 18.The project took more than two years to complete. It included 505 unlivable homes demolished, 331 homes built, and 178 homes renovated. Construction will continue in

  • Parents network to share child care

    Local parents of young children now have a resource to find or share temporary child care openings at the Child Development Center on Beale Air Force Base.The Beale Parent's Network for Child Care Leasing helps connect parents of full-time enrolled children and those seeking short-term daycare."We

  • Beale conducts emergency services exercise

    Team Beale conducted an emergency services exercise featuring more than 20 base and local agencies on Aug. 8 here.The exercise demonstrated how Team Beale would respond to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives attack.Airmen from the 9th Civil Engineer Squadron

  • Author donates more than 1,000 books to Beale Library

    Author James Rollins donated more than 1,000 books and other items to Beale's library on Aug. 12 as part of Authors Untied for Veterans.The donation was a collaboration of a local Barnes and Noble book store and USA Cares, a non-profit organization helping post- 9/11 military families. To date, the

  • Beale's 940th Wing supports the World's Largest Golf Outing

    Beale's 13th Reconnaissance Squadron, part of the 940th Wing, supported the World's Largest Golf Outing by volunteering at the Lincoln Hills Golf Club Aug. 11, in Lincoln, Calif.The volunteers assisted in golfer's registration, handed out registration gifts, managed the golf bag drop-off area, and

  • Intelligence group to break ground for new facility

    The 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., will break ground later this year to begin construction of a newly consolidated Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) Operations Center.The construction project will consist of an 85,000

  • Grand Forks AFB hosts first integrated UAV flight

    The 319th Operations Support Squadron supported a milestone in unmanned aerial vehicle aviation Aug. 1.For the first time, the Federal Aviation Administration authorized two UAVs to operate simultaneously in a traffic pattern of unrestricted airspace."This is the result of a year and a half of

  • 9th CES saves AF nearly $1 million during roof repair project

    The 9th Civil Engineer Squadron roof maintenance team saved approximately $1 million in roof repairs at the Base Exchange in July by having Beale Airmen complete a portion of the repairs.The BX and other base facilities are receiving repairs due to water leaks and unsatisfactory ratings given by an

  • 2014 Intramural Softball Championships

    The 9th Munitions Squadron played the 13th Intelligence Squadron for the 2014 Intramural Softball Championships at O'Malley Field on Beale Air Force Base, Calif., July 31.9th MUNS defeated 13th IS, 19-4.

  • U-2 anniversary celebration

    Airmen from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing held an anniversary celebration for the U-2 Dragon Lady Aug. 1, 2014, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.The event commemorated the 59th year of flight for the high-altitude, all-weather reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. Guest speakers