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A Trek for Life Thirteen wounded veterans are selected for Raytheon, No Barriers expedition
It’s an adventure that will change lives.
The nonprofit No Barriers Warriors has selected 13 highly decorated wounded warriors for its Veteran Wilderness Expedition through the Grand...
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Using an imaging spectrometer...
AFSOUTH Airmen visit orphans, deliver gifts to those in need
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFNS) -- Up a winding mountain road through the mountains of Honduras, about an hour outside the city of Tegucigalpa, is the...
Airmen stop woman from jumping off bridge
What started as an ordinary day for three Airmen from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., soon turned into anything but.
Their quick reaction and application...
AF family: Like mother, like daughter
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- When Senior Airman Kara Watts was a college student and searching for inspiration, she said she only...
LIFESTYLE NEWS
Military spouses hope to inspire million acts of kindness
Three military spouses say they hope to change the world, through one act of kindness at a time.
To accomplish this, they aim to...
Seeing the bigger picture
Chap. (Capt.) Genesis Guerrero, a chaplain for the 39th Air Base Wing at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey,, was 17 years old when his family...
HOUSE DESIGN
WORLD NEWS
Airman Spotlight: Senior Airman Ronald X. Jones
Senior Airman Ronald X. Jones
Aviation Resource Management journeyman
412th Operations Support Squadron
Job description and its impact on the overall mission: My job description is to...
Veterans visit D.C. monuments, memorials through Honor Flight Network
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Whether standing at the Air Force memorial or silently observing the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery, a program...
U.S. paratroopers, WWII veterans pay homage to D-Day 71st anniversary
CHEF DU PONT, France (June 8, 2015) -- It has been nicknamed the "longest day" and has had more movies played on the silver...
Air Force Widow vows to bring awareness to invisible wounds
Courtesy photographWith 10 years serving on active duty and another 10 serving in the Air Force Reserve as an aerial gunner, Master Sgt....
Malcolm Johnson, civilian Prisoner of War
TUSCON, Ariz., -- Ninety-four-year-old Malcolm “Mickey” Johnson sits in his wheelchair wearing a maroon baseball cap with the words “Survivors of Wake Guam-Cavite” written in light...
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AF spouse receives spouse of the year accolades
FORT MYER, Va. (AFNS) -- Michelle Aikman was named Military Spouse Magazine’s 2016 Air Force Military Spouse of the Year during a luncheon May...
PERFORMANCE TRAINING
From one Airman to another, ask for help and never give up
The old saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words. Since 2004, Tech. Sgt. Courtney Richardson has been telling the Air Force story...
Rescue Airman amputee wins battle to serve in AFRC
Air Force photograph by Staff Sgt. Jared TrimarchiSenior Airman Kevin Greene, a health care management technician with the 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, stretches...
POW visits Pentagon tribute section, reminisces about hard times
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Retired Col. Leon Ellis was a prisoner of war for 1,955 days during the Vietnam War. During a July 16 visit...
Edwards Airman Spotlight: Senior Airman Ariel Graham
Unit: 412th Communications Squadron
Job title: Server Operations Technician
Job description and its impact on the overall mission: I administrate and manage enterprise servers and also troubleshoot day...
Four F’s essential to life in military
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- I have had a lot of my non-military friends ask me the question, "How have you made it for...
HOLIDAY RECIPES
Drill sergeants save Family from burning vehicle
It was after 6 p.m. in the small Midwestern town as people began to end their day.
The warm colors of the mid-August afternoon...