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  • 446th ASTS Reservists recently return from deployment

    Being deployed can be rough on anyone no matter if they are Reserve, Guard or active duty. One thing is certain for those who are deployed-they are usually happy to come home. Such is the case with about 54 recently returned citizen Airmen from the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron here. The

  • Progress ongoing in creating Joint Base Lewis-McChord

    Development of Joint Base Lewis-McChord reached a significant milestone this week with the expected signing of the Memorandum of Agreement by the vice chiefs of the Army and Air Force. The MOA was developed locally and finalized in May after months of work by McChord and Fort Lewis leadership and

  • Initial fly in to Antarctica begins

    Reserve Airmen from the 446th Airlift Wing here are spinning up for the Winter Fly-ins to McMurdo Station, Antarctica in support of the U.S. Antarctic program and the National Science Foundation and in preparation of Operation Deep Freeze.The period known as WINFLY started Aug. 18 and is scheduled

  • C-17 celebrates 10 years at McChord

    With nearly 1,000 local community leaders and Team McChord members watching intently, McChord's first C-17 Globemaster III -- the "Spirit of McChord" -- touched down here July 30, 1999, piloted by then-Air Mobility Commander Gen. Charles "Tony" Robertson. The aptly-named aircraft was one of two

  • Protect yourself with understanding of mission-oriented protective postures

    Buttons - check; zippers - check; buddy - check. Of all the checks you do when moving into a mission-oriented protective posture (MOPP), the buddy check may well be the most important. MOPP levels are different stages for wear of your ground crew ensemble designed to protect yourself from chemical,

  • Summer fun is over, time for an exercise, inspection

    Sure, the weather is great right now. But Summer is just about over. The air will begin to bite, clouds will soon move in, rainfall will start to again be measured in inches, and an Operational Readiness Exercise and an Operational Readiness Inspection will be here before you know it.The 446th

  • Civil engineers ready to roll into Iraq

     The 446th Civil Engineer Squadron, a Reserve unit here, is scheduled to deploy at the end of August a flight of about 40 Reservists to Iraq. The flight is set to be there until March 2010, as part of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. When a Reserve unit gets

  • Air Force revises fitness program

    The need for a "clear, understandable and simpler" fitness program will mean significant changes to the Air Force's current fitness program, said the service's top officer during a senior leadership conference held June 4-6 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.

  • Reservists take medical skills to Indonesia

    Col. Paul Abson, the operations flight commander with the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron and Staff Sgt. Carrie Conley, an optometry technician with the 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron here, joined a team of other Reserve medical Airmen deployed to West Timor, Indonesia, July 16-23, to

  • Former technical sergeant a distinguished graduate from officer training

    Lincoln, Churchill, Luther King, Gandhi. Leaders, such as these, might credit their successes to proper goal setting and milestones. An officer with the 446th Maintenance Squadron here did just that in earning the Distinguished Graduate honor at Air University's Officer Training School, Maxwell Air