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446th Airlift Wing Leadership visits ODF

Col. Joseph Vanoni, 446th Airlift Wing commander, flies a C-17 Globemaster III to Antarctica as part of a visit to Operation Deep Freeze on Nov. 18, 2024. Operation Deep Freeze assists the National Science Foundation in its effort to explore and research the continent. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Jill Marconi, Family and Airman Readiness director, speaks to community leaders during the Pierce Military and Business Alliance (PMBA) board in November in Lakewood, Washington. As the new Family and Airman Readiness director, Marconi brings an extra special toolbox of skills to enhance the quality of life for military and families here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brooke Davis)

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446th Airlift Wing retires beloved Tank

Col. Steven Vautrain, 439th Airlift Wing commander, presents Col. Lisa Tank, former 446th AW vice commander, with the Defense Meritorius Service Medal during her retirement ceremony held in the 446th Operations Group auditorium here Nov. 6. Vautrain also presented her with the Legion of Merit Medal before the retirement orders were published. Tank has served in various roles with the 446th AW since joining the Air Force Reserve in 1994. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tanya King)

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446th Airlift Wing Vice Commander

Col. Michael A. Sovitsky is Vice Commander of the 446th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

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446th Airlift Wing Volunteer Takes Lead

Staff Sgt. Clara Mailloux of the 446th Maintenance Squadron, led a team as they reconstructed the aircraft’s major aesthetic assemblies such as fuselage, tail and wings. The project will eventually help create jobs to over 70 South African women and cover their children’s education costs. (Courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing Volunteer Takes Lead

Staff Sgt. Clara Mailloux of the 446th Maintenance Squadron, led a team as they reconstructed the aircraft’s major aesthetic assemblies such as fuselage, tail and wings. The project will eventually help create jobs to over 70 South African women and cover their children’s education costs. (Courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing Volunteer Takes Lead

Staff Sgt. Clara Mailloux of the 446th Maintenance Squadron, led a team as they reconstructed the aircraft’s major aesthetic assemblies such as fuselage, tail and wings. The project will eventually help create jobs to over 70 South African women and cover their children’s education costs. (Courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing Volunteer Takes Lead

Staff Sgt. Clara Mailloux of the 446th Maintenance Squadron, led a team as they reconstructed the aircraft’s major aesthetic assemblies such as fuselage, tail and wings. The project will eventually help create jobs to over 70 South African women and cover their children’s education costs. (Courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing Volunteer Takes Lead

Staff Sgt. Clara Mailloux of the 446th Maintenance Squadron, led a team as they reconstructed the aircraft’s major aesthetic assemblies such as fuselage, tail and wings. The project will eventually help create jobs to over 70 South African women and cover their children’s education costs. (Courtesy photo)

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446th Airlift Wing welcomes new commander

(Left to right) U.S. Army Col. Thomas Britttain, commander Joint Base Lewis-McChord, meets Fourth Air Force Commander Brig. Gen. Mark Kyle at McChord Field. The commanders attended an Assumption of Command ceremony for Col. Bruce Bowers, 446th Airlift Wing here, July 9. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Moody)

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446th Airlift Wing welcomes new commander

Col. Bruce Bowers assumes command of the 446th Airlift Wing here, in a ceremony presided by Fourth Air Force Commander Brig. Gen. Mark Kyle and 446th AW Command Chief Master Sgt. Gloria Bennett. The passing of the colors symbolized Colonel Bowers' official assumption of command July 9, attended by Reservists, active duty members of the U.S. Air Force, U. S. Army and local civic leaders. (From left to right, General Kyle, Chief Bennett, and Colonel Bowers. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Moody)

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446th Airlift Wing's newest chaplain

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Chaplain (Capt.) Pedro Jimenez Barros, born in Spain, conducts religious service on the unit training assembly weekend Dec. 7, 2019 here at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. (Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Erb)

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446th ASTS bids farewell to commander

The 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron bid farewell to Col. Karen Winter, 446th ASTS commander, who retired after 20 years of service in a ceremony here, July 10. Among the many gifts presented to Colonel Winter was a handcrafted model C-17 Globemaster III, made by her father.

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446th ASTS Reserve Citizen Airmen trade stripes for bars

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Melissa D. Boos, left, and 1st Lt. Kristina R. Hansen, 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron clinical nurses, showcase technical sergeant stripes during Boos’ commissioning ceremony on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, July 14, 2020. Boos and Hansen are former technical sergeants who recently commissioned into the health professions career field. (Courtesy photo)

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446th ASTS return from COVID-19 relief efforts in NYC

Air Force Reservists First Lt. Melissa Boos, a nurse assigned to the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, and Lt. Col. (Dr.) Pen Hou, a family medicine doctor assigned to the same squadron, supported COVID-19 relief efforts for two months. The four-member Reservist medical team, to include a doctor, two nurses and a respiratory technician, worked in NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi between April and May. According to 446 ASTS, the Reserve personnel were placed in 12 New York City hospitals that covered over 6,000 beds with a daily peak of 2,300 daily confirmed cases. (Courtesy photo)

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446th AW captain recognized as USDOT Reservist of Year

Capt. Lisa Neetz, 86th Aerial Port Squadron logistics readiness officer, poses for a photo at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Nov. 2, 2024. In her civilian career, Neetz works for the U.S. Department of Transportation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Daniel Phelps)

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446th AW delivers humanitarian aid to Haiti

JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. - Fourteen pallets of food and water fill a C-17 Globemaster III bound for Port au Prince, Haiti, June 14, 2021. The 313th Airlift Squadron aircrew transported 101,000 pounds of food to Haiti as part of the Denton Program. Since 1998, the Denton Program has overseen millions of pounds of humanitarian supplies sent to more than 50 countries around the globe. (Air Force photo by Major Eric Hodges)

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446th AW delivers humanitarian aid to Haiti

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - A partially loaded C-17 Globemaster III flown by 446th Airlift Wing aircrew headed for Port au Prince, Haiti, June 14, 2021. The Air Force Reserve aircrew of the 313th Airlift Squadron transported 101,000 pounds of food to Haiti as part of the Denton Humanitarian Aid Program. Since 1998, the Denton Program has overseen millions of pounds of humanitarian supplies sent to more than 50 countries around the globe. (Air Force photo by Major Eric Hodges)

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446th AW launches Women's Council

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - U.S. Air Force Col. Paul M. Skipworth, 446th Airlift Wing commander, addresses women from the 446th AW during a virtual Women's Council meeting here Nov. 7, 2020. The inaugural Women's Council initiative was launched to provide a community of support and a forum to discuss women’s issues at the 446th AW and across the Air Force as a whole. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ann Butler)

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446th AW leadership dish out holiday cheer

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.- Chief Master Sgt., Gloria Bennett, foreground, 446th Airlift Wing command chief, and Col. Lane Seaholm, background, 446th AW vice commander, help serve hot meals and holiday cheer for other Reservists from the wing at the Olympic Dining Facility, Dec. 4, during UTA lunch hour. Every year on the Saturday of the December drill weekend, leadership serves food at the dining facility to express their thanks for the hard work wing members have given throughout the year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Grant Saylor)

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