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  • Don’t Snooze on Getting Enough Sleep

    This week the National Sleep Foundation celebrates Sleep Awareness Week, its annual event to raise awareness about the health benefits of sleep.When you don’t get enough sleep it affects your health, mood, productivity and more. Talk to your health care provider if you are having trouble sleeping.

  • Rainier Wing moves mountains in Spain

    Reservists with the 446th Airlift Wing’s maintenance and aircraft maintenance squadrons, out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, demonstrated supported the 725th Air Mobility Squadron Feb. 14-28, 2016.

  • Bringing Airmen together

    Citizen Airmen of the Rainier Wing gathered together March 6 at McChord Field to participate in Wingman Day.The theme of this year’s event, We Are Connected, was aimed at highlighting the importance of joining together as a team. “Wingman Day is our chance to emphasize the resiliency of the 44th

  • Tomodachi 'friendship' luncheon

    Airmen from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., including members from the 446th and 62nd Airlift Wing's, and the Western Air Defense Sector, participate in a group photo with the Consulate General of Japan Masahiro Omura, and his wife during his Tomodachi Reception in Seattle Feb. 19, 2016. Airmen who

  • Secretary of Defense visits JBLM

    On a two-day visit to the Pacific Northwest, the 25th Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, took a day to visit with the service members of the Puget Sound here, March 4.The secretary started his day with seeing a C-17 Globemaster III static, a 22nd Special Tactics Squadron and 1st Air Special

  • Budget: A friend in disguise?

    Money — many people use it every day, and it may seem to go as quickly as it comes. To ensure money is being saved or set aside toward a goal that is beneficial to the earner, creating and following a budget just might be the answer.“A budget is essentially a spending plan,” said Robert Griffin,

  • Commander discusses pilot retention at AFA Symposium

    Lieutenant Gen. James F. Jackson, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, along with Air Force leadership sat on a panel to discuss major command priorities to close out the 2016 Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium here Feb. 26.Airmen in the audience had an

  • Wingman Day schedule of events

    Wingman Day events are in the works for the March Unit Training Assembly, including a Commander’s Call in hangar 9 at 8 a.m., March 6.

  • AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

  • Welsh presents AF update at AFA

    Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III outlined Air Force operations from 2015, the service’s plan for 2016, and what is to come in the future at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 25.

  • Cody gives enlisted perspective at AFA

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody spoke to a room of Airmen and civilians about today’s generation of Airmen and their families during the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 25.

  • Vice chairman: Military services can learn from each other, strengthen trust

    Trust is at the heart of military professionalism, and the services can learn from each other how to improve leadership and better communicate the military’s values, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. "The common theme across all of our services and the common theme across military