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  • Rainier Wing focuses on wellness

    Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 446th Airlift Wing, and their families, focused on wellness August 4 and 5 during a weekend dedicated to promoting strength and wellness at McChord Field.“Wingman and Family Days are essential,” said Maj. Gen. Randall Ogden, commander of the Fourth Air Force.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Yellow Ribbon rescue

    Maj. Fred Pounds, flight commander of clinical management with the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron here, went to Orlando to attend a Yellow Ribbon Reintegration seminar, expecting to unwind and adjust to life back home. Instead, he ended up averting a crisis and subsequently saving a

  • Blended Retirement Talking Points

    Blended Retirement Talking Points• There is no need to be anxious about the blended retirement system in the current FY2016 NDAA. Everyone who is currently serving as well as those who enter the force on or before December 31, 2017 is grandfathered under the current military retirement system.