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  • Steady and ready: C-130 mainstay of medevac

    Since the Vietnam War, the C-130 Hercules has been a workhorse of aeromedical evacuation, and continues to serve as a reliable platform to move patients over long distances, allowing Airmen to provide critical care in the air, aid in disaster relief efforts, and bring warfighters home.

  • Wright-Patt mother, physician tells story of heartbreaking loss

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dr. Laura Sidari is speaking out because her family suffered a horrendous loss last Christmas Day.  The Air Force psychiatrist at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center, and her husband, Dr. Anthony Sidari, a rheumatologist, lost their 4-year-old son, Leon, to

  • Air Force extends high year of tenure for E-4s through E-6s

    The Air Force is extending the high year of tenure for senior airmen through technical sergeants beginning Feb. 1, 2019.The memo, signed Oct. 18, 2018, extends the high year of tenure from eight to 10 years for senior airmen, from 15 to 20 years for staff sergeants and from 20 to 22 years for

  • Symposium brings together logistics professionals

    Hundreds of logistics professionals from around the nation gathered in Oklahoma City Oct. 9 – 12 to attend the Logistics Officer Association Symposium. The yearly event gives individuals from academia, the Department of Defense and industry organizations the opportunity to interact, share ideas and

  • Member of 72nd SFS competes in Defender Challenge

     The Defender Challenge, a competition between security forces’ teams from each major command, the Royal Air Force and the German Air Force, was held for the first time since 2004, and a Tinker Air Force Base Airman competed on the third-place team.Tech. Sgt. Jakob Haase with the 72nd Air Base Wing

  • USAFSAM readies operational mental health care providers

    The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine has set up Air Force’s first operational training program for embedded mental health care providers and technicians, preparing them to join Integrated Operational Support teams.

  • Obenland Memorial Award commemorates engineer, hero

    An engineering officer at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the recipient of the 2018 Roland R.Obenland Memorial Award. The award honors a company grade engineering officer with less than seven years of total active commissioned service who exhibits

  • Alert pole malfunction on Tinker Air Force Base, no cause for alarm

    A wavering alarm tone sounded from a single alarm pole in the 38th Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group at Tinker Air Force Base at 10 p.m. Oct. 16 and 7 a.m. Oct. 17, but the base community should not be alarmed.Tech. Sgt. Jeffery Daum with the Tinker Air Force Base Command Post said the alarm

  • New podcast targets Air Force contracting, acquisition fields

    “The Contracting Experience” is a new Air Force Materiel Command podcast for the contracting workforce that provides insight into evolving issues, high-performance leadership and lessons from the field through conversations with acquisition influencers and Contracting leaders.