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  • Air Force Reserve offers Airmen opportunity to continue serving

    The Air Force is becoming a smaller, leaner force, implementing a variety of personnel programs to trim the number of people on active duty. But not all who leave the active Air Force must turn in their flight caps.The Air Force Reserve is an option for many Airmen and the 446th Airlift Wing

  • Aeromedical evacuation Airmen deploy

    McChord Field, Wash. -Throughout December and January, around 30 aeromedical evacuation Reservists from the 446th Airlift Wing will be deploying to various Air Force bases where they will fly missions to pick up and fly troops to the different medical establishments for further care.Aeromedical

  • Central Pierce County Fire Department again donates holiday food baskets

    The 446th Force Support Squadron Airman and Family Readiness Center staff and volunteers gathered boxes of goodies from Central Pierce County Fire Department Dec. 17 for the annual holiday basket delivery to Reserve families here. Thirty-two boxes of food were donated to the 446th Airlift Wing by

  • Commissary now accepting applications for scholarships for military children

    Applications for the 2014 Scholarships for Military Children Program are now available at commissaries worldwide or on the Internet at http://www.militaryscholar.org.Applications must be turned in to a commissary by close of business Feb. 28, 2014. Packages must be hand-delivered or shipped via U.S.

  • Wing facility managers learn joint base standards

    Improperly stored hazardous waste material and failing to recycle were the two most common findings in a recent Joint Base Lewis-McChord environmental assessment of 446th Airlift Wing units.Hazardous waste found to be improperly stored consisted mostly of common cleaning materials and even lighting

  • Reserve medical squadrons amp up training efforts

    The Citizen Airmen of the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron and the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron play on different sides of the same coin when they're deployed in the field. While their roles may go hand-in-hand, they've seldom had the opportunity to train together--until today. Leadership

  • Reserve medical squadrons amp up training efforts

    The Citizen Airmen of the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron and the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron play on different sides of the same coin when they're deployed in the field. While their roles may go hand-in-hand, they've seldom had the opportunity to train together--until today.

  • Safety office garners three awards

    Ground, weapons, and flight safety programs in the 446th Airlift Wing each earned the Air Force Reserve Command Chief of Safety Outstanding Achievement award.Going three for three, the wing safety office earned the awards for their fiscal year 2012 programs.Significant accomplishments include zero

  • Reservists logs flying hours milestone while deployed

    On Oct. 20, in the late afternoon heat of Southern Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Stephen Clements and his C-17 Globemaster III crew set off on a milestone flight. Clements logged his 10,000 hours behind the controls of a military aircraft while assisting United States military forces with

  • New policy limits orders for Reservists with un-filed vouchers

    While it's sad, but true, sometimes you just have to hold people's feet to the fire. Such is the case when it comes to Reservists closing the loop on military orders by completing their pay and travel vouchers.Effective immediately, any Reservist who has an order more than 60 days old that is not

  • Third rotation departs in support of Operation Deep Freeze

    Thirty-six McChord Field Airmen, 13 of them Reservists, departed early in the morning Nov. 7 in what is the third rotation of crews supporting Operation Deep Freeze.The plane the Reserve and active-duty Airmen fly is the C-17 Globemaster III, used to deliver National Science Foundation personnel and