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  • Reserve home team ready for Rodeo

    About 45 Reservists from the 446th Airlift Wing here, will be competing in Rodeo 2009, July 19-24, here. The 446th Airlift Wing team will make up part of the 2,500 participants and 100 teams from Air Mobility Command, Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, and teams from the Marine Corps,

  • Insurance agent earns Bronze Star

    It's easy to picture a trauma surgeon making life or death decisions, but an insurance agent from Everett saving lives as a logistics officer in the Air Force Reserve. No way. Way. Maj. Tony Edwards, commander of the 446th Logistics Readiness Flight, recently earned the prestigious Bronze Star for

  • Navy League, ESGR recognize McChord Reservist

    The Lake Washington Council of the Navy League and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve honored enlisted military troops with the Enlisted of the Year Award at the Bob Curran Memorial Breakfast. Master Sgt. Jeffery Barsaloux, 446th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, was chosen to represent the

  • Wing celebrates families with picnic Aug. 8

    Music, food, games (to include a chance to dunk senior leadership), and, of all things, getting your boating safety license, will all be available at the Aug. 8 Family Day picnic hosted by Col. William Flanigan, 446th Airlift Wing commander. The picnic starts at 11 a.m., at Heritage Hill (aka

  • Tying things off at Yellow Ribbon

    About 125 military and family members attended the first 446th Airlift Wing Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Workshop, at the Hotel Murano in Tacoma, Wash., June 27. The program's speakers explain benefits to Reservists and their families are entitled to, related to deployments, said Carl Supplee,

  • AFA exposition setting for award presentations to 446th Airlift Wing

    The 446th Airlift Wing will have a presence at the beginning and end of the first day of the Air Force Association's Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 14-16, National Harbor, Md. At the beginning of the day with the conference opening, the AFA President's Award for Air

  • July Salutes

    Promotions Senior Master Sergeant Alfredo Cruz, 446th AW Master Sergeant David Axtell, 446th AMXS Gerald Lake, 446th LRF Dwayne Lee, 446th CES Hans Lewis, 446th MXS Cameron Oswald, 446th CES Robert Rawlings, 446th AMXS Damion Slaughter, 446th AMXS Technical Sergeant Stephen Bisson, 446th SFS Keith

  • Security forces deploy largest flight since 2001

    On July 5, the 446th Security Forces Squadron sent a flight of about 20 Reservists to Southwest Asia for six months. This is the largest group of McChord Reserve security forces to go on an Air Expeditionary Force deployment since Sept. 11, 2001. The flight will be supporting Patriot Defender to

  • McChord Reservist earns one of Air Force’s most prestigious awards

    A Reservist from the 446th Maintenance Squadron here was selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Airman of the Year Award today. This is the first time a member of the 446th Airlift Wing has gone to the top in this annual competition. Staff Sgt. Channel Bolton-Scholl, a crew chief with 446th MXS, was

  • OPSEC reminder for Reservists and their families

    As a member of the military community, you are a vital player in Soldier and unit success; they couldn't do their job without your support. You may not know it, but you play a crucial role in ensuring their safety just by what you know of the military's day-to-day operations. You can protect them by

  • AES warms up at 'Arctic Spring'

    The 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron here assisted with the exercise "Arctic Spring" June 3. The exercise assesses procedures and communications between organizations in preparation for mass-movement of inbound patients in the aftermath of a large natural disaster. Participants in the exercise

  • First in last out: ALCF to decommission

    The 446th Airlift Wing is losing a diverse group of Airmen, whose professionalism and expertise is unrivaled when it comes to running an airfield at a deployed location. The decommissioning ceremony for the 446th Airlift Control Flight is July 12. The 446th ALCF is being shut down as Air Mobility

  • Reservists help build memorial honoring deceased hero

    A memorial statue and aerospace scholarship honoring fallen Columbia Space Shuttle astronaut and Spokane, Wash. native, Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson, was dedicated Friday at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The purpose of the memorial is to assist underprivileged and underserved kids of color who