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  • Cheating Death: A Story about Second Chances

    May 27, 2012, is a day Tech. Sgt. Mark Hopkins will never forget--even though it's a day he can barely remember.It was the day he made a choice that drastically altered his life forever, and almost ended it in the process."All I remember is hopping on my motorcycle around noon on my way to hang out

  • 728th AMS Airmen support German operations

    A Luftwaffe A-310 jet lands on the flightline at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey and U.S. and Germen airmen begin to trickle outside. Some grab equipment, others start up various vehicles, while others go out to direct the jet to its parking spot.Though this coalition gaggle may seem a little out of the

  • USAF team exchanges ideas, hope with Senegalese air force

    Members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing and U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa recently returned from an engagement with their Senegalese air force counterparts, in Dakar, Senegal, May 20 to 24. The engagement provided a forum for Airmen from both nations to share ideas on relief

  • EC prepares senior leaders with expeditionary mission support training

    A class of 17 commanders and superintendents recently completed the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's three-day Expeditionary Mission Support Group Senior Leaders Course here.The EMSG course is designed for mission support group commanders and superintendents who are tasked to deploy to various

  • 818 CRW, 143rd AW exercise together at Quonset Point, RI

    Members of the 621 Contingency Response Wing exercised with new faces for upgrade training.The 818th Contingency Response Group combined with the 143rd Airlift Wing for the 818 CRG-143 AW exercise at Quonset Point Air National Guard Station, RI, 9-17 May."We were looking to complete Contingency

  • 730 AMS keeps Yokota people, cargo moving

    In the civilian world, whenever the U.S. Postal Service needs to ship internationally, they use cargo planes. In the military, the process is pretty much the same except instead of mail, shipments include ammunition, food, supplies and even people. On Yokota Air Base, that mission is accomplished by

  • 422nd JTS makes first trip down range

    Members of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's 422nd Joint Tactics Squadron recently traveled to various deployment locations supporting operations in and around Afghanistan to conduct face-to-face interviews with deployed Airmen and collect real-time tactical lessons learned directly from

  • 733rd AMS first to offer virtual Space A Roll Call

    The 733rd Air Mobility Squadron is the first in the Air Force to implement and test a virtual Space Available Roll Call program that began March 16 and will run through July on Kadena. "Space A travel has been the same since it began," said Master Sgt. Jessica Coombs, 733rd AMS superintendent of

  • Joint Task Force builds skills, ties with RAF at unique exercise

    Units deploying to U.S. Transportation Command's Eagle Flag exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst N.J., can expect to encounter austere field conditions, heated interaction with role players acting as difficult locals, and lots and lots of cargo. But when air mobility specialists from the