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  • CDC educator wins national-level award

    A teacher from the Child Development Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., won the 2017 Terry Lynn Lokoff Award, a national-level award promoting young educators’ projects to improve teaching environments for children.   “Terry Lynn Lokoff was a caregiver years ago,” said Heidi Sowers, the award

  • Forging the future, maintainers receive new equipment

    The B-1 is a four-engine, supersonic bomber that has been providing combat airpower – anytime and anywhere for more than 30 years. This Black Dragon has been at Ellsworth since July 15, 1988, and is currently playing a major role in the war on terror. These aging aircraft are used frequently,

  • 5 AMXS team washes the warbird

    Airmen from the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron wash a B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Feb. 14, 2017. It takes the nine-Airman team two days and approximately 10 gallons of soap to wash each jet when it comes in for its routine wash every 120 days. (U.S. Air Force photos/Senior

  • Barksdale Airmen welcome 18th CMSAF

    The 18th and newest Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, Kaleth O. Wright, visited Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Feb. 22 to discuss the future of the Air Force’s enlisted force and receive feedback from the Airmen who serve at headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command and 8th Air Force

  • USSTRATCOM commander tours F.E. Warren

    U.S. Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, U.S. Strategic Command commander, and his wife, Laura, visited F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Feb. 22 to meet with Airmen and their families and learn more about the mission of the 90th Missile Wing, the Mighty Ninety.   During their visit, General and Mrs.

  • 341 MDG Airmen receive Air Force awards

    Two Airmen from Malmstrom Air Force Base recently received Air Force-level awards in the medical career field.Senior Airman Kaitlyn Callahan, 341st Medical Operations Squadron physical medicine technician, received the U.S. Air Force Physical Medicine Airman of the Year award. “I help plan,

  • Air Force Medical Service 2016 Award Winners Announced

    The Air Force Surgeon General has announced the recipients of the Air Force Medical Service 2016 individual and team Annual Awards.The nominations submitted reflect the extraordinary quality of the Airmen in the Air Force Medical Service. The accomplishments of those recognized demonstrate

  • Olympic Sword: 20th Air Force conducts first joint technical order rewrite

     Charged with employing the world's finest nuclear deterrent force in defense of U.S. interests, 20th Air Force remains focused on sustaining and enhancing the integrated nuclear operations capability of the Minuteman III weapon system.  Drawing on examples of past Guardian Sword events, the first