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  • 21st SVS Airmen return home to warm welcome

    Sixteen Airmen assigned to the 21st Services Squadron, and two assigned to the 21st Communications Squadron, returned home May 7 after spending four and six-month deployments in Southwest Asia supporting Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Leadership from both squadrons and the 21st Space Wing

  • Name the Tanker: Leaders seek inputs from Airmen

    Air Force senior leaders are asking all Airmen for suggestions on a name for the service's newest tanker aircraft, the KC-45A. "I've asked that we seek our Airmen's help to find a name for the KC-45," said Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne. "I prefer the name emphasize our heritage or our

  • Space operators essential to the war fight

    Airmen in space missions might be thousands of miles from an actual war zone, but their work is still crucial to the ongoing fight, according to Lt. Col. Chance Saltzman. Speaking at the Guardian Challenge Space and Missile Forum May 9, Colonel Saltzman, 614th Air and Space Operations Center chief

  • NORAD officials celebrate 50th anniversary

    North American Aerospace Defense Command officials celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the NORAD agreement with a Golden Jubilee Ball May 12 at the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort here. A NORAD time capsule, embedded in a rock that came from Cheyenne Mountain, will be unveiled May 13

  • AFSPC commander gets to know Eglin-based space mission

    Members of the 20th Space Control Squadron hosted a visit from the commander of Air Force Space Command April 24 here. Gen. C. Robert Kehler, together with his wife Marjorie, visited the squadron and base to see the men and women of the 20th SPCS in action. General Kehler received a mission brief

  • Individual AEF information now visible on vMPF

    The Air Force Personnel Center here has taken another step to support Airmen and ensure all members know their air expeditionary force deployment status. Airmen can now access this information through vMPF. This capability provides real-time visibility for Airmen and is consistent with the

  • TRICARE offers a no-stress guide to parenthood

    New parents should be enjoying their newborn, not worrying about health care. TRICARE management activity, or TMA, provides essential health care information for parents on its Web site. The life events section at www.tricare.mil guides parents-to-be from maternity to pre-teen health care. The site