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  • MC-12 Project Liberty Team competes for aviation's "Greatest Achievement"

    Baseball has the World Series, Hollywood has the Oscars, the aviation and aerospace industry has the Collier Trophy.The Air Force's MC-12 Project Liberty has earned a nomination for aviation's most prestigious award. The Robert J. Collier Trophy is awarded annually, "...for the greatest achievement

  • USO brings Peyton Manning to deployed Beale Airmen

    Super Bowl champion and current Denver Broncos' quarterback, Peyton Manning, along with other professional athletes and performers visited 380th Expeditionary Airmen here Feb. 28 as part of United Service Organizations-hosted tour. Navy Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., the vice chairman of the Joint

  • 9th MXS edges out 48th IS, takes Intramural Basketball Championship

    The 9th Maintenance Squadron defeated the 48th Intelligence Squadron 37-34 to take the Intramural Basketball Championship Feb. 22, at the Harris Fitness Center."The whole game was a defensive struggle, but we came through in the end," said Airman 1st Class Quameir Harding, 9th MXS player and coach.

  • Taking care of each other

    Every day I come into work wondering what the day has in store for me. How many times my phone is going to ring? How many times will my priority list change? Most importantly, how many "Airmen" am I going to help today? I have been in the service for almost 16 years, but this last year as a First

  • Tobacco use in the Air Force

    It is encouraging to see the impressive shift in the United States regarding tobacco use. I can recall going to see my doctor as a child and having him in the exam room smoking his cigar. We used to see smoking in the workplace, restaurants, airplanes, cars, TV commercials, movies, and all

  • Language as a weapon

    "To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for, that which could have been, their finest