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Community Networking Spotlight–Vicki Medina
Vicki Medina, Antelope Valley Board of Trade executive director, joined the Air Force Materiel Command Community Liaison Program in 2013.
As a liaison, she meets...
Celebration and education; Equal Opportunity
In 1948, Ester Blake became the first enlisted female in the U.S. Air Force, pictures were still black and white, and families gathered around...
NASA Armstrong Exchange awards scholarship
The NASA Armstrong Employee Exchange Council has presented its 2015 Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship Award to Ted Kim.
Walker was a former chief pilot...
Rescuer reunites with ‘Katrina Girl’
LOS ANGELES (AFNS) -- Ten years ago, Staff Sgt. Mike Maroney hovered over a maelstrom of water, debris and human suffering. New Orleans, a...
Four NCOs, 16 Army vets to compete in Rio Paralympics
Army photograph by Tim HippsSgt. Elizabeth Marks of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program wins the women's 100-meter breaststroke with a time...
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
Resiliency in the midst of the reaper
Born into a military family, U.S. Air Force Capt. Cole Holloway was destined to follow both his mother and father’s footsteps into the U.S....
AF Vietnam veterans honored on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Current and former service members, members of Congress, Vietnam veterans and Air Force senior leaders gathered in the Emancipation Hall of...
Northrop Grumman NATO AGS to be tested at Edwards
PALMDALE, Calif. -- Northrop Grumman's family of high-altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft systems welcomed its newest member June 4. The new Alliance Ground Surveillance system is...
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...
Vietnam vets commemorate 50th anniversary of ‘helicopter war’
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va. -- Hundreds of Vietnam combat helicopter pilots, their guests and Gold Star families planted a tree in Arlington National Cemetery,...
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D-M Air Force Clubs Scholarship Program winner
Delaney Alyssa Drew receives a check for $500 from the Air Force Clubs Scholarship Program by 2nd Lt. Charles Hulsizer, 355th Force Support Squadron...
PERFORMANCE TRAINING
Luke veteran survives three wars, plane crash
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- "I should have been shot down," he said, recalling one of his 133 missions in his F-4 Phantom II during...
Soldier channels training, courage during tragedy
In the face of unknown danger and chaos, it is easy to let fear overwhelm you; for one Fort Bliss Soldier, he defied this...
McConnell Airmen welcome youngest pilot
Air Force photograph by Senior Airman Christopher ThornburyTyson Gray, 10 years old, poses for a photo with his parents and air crew members...
Dorothy’s Letter
Courtesy photographArmy Staff Sgt. Daniel Stoudt poses for a photo as member of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Stoudt, later, survived the Bataan Death...
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...
HOLIDAY RECIPES
Deployed 355th SFS Defender received recognition
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Tinalouise Dunbar, from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, was recently selected by 386th Air Expeditionary Wing leadership as April’s Unsung Hero...
