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  • Coalition forces participate in world-wide exercise

    Service members from around the world participated in a world-wide network exercise at the 5th Air Support Operation Squadron here Aug. 27.Coalition Virtual Flag was an online large-scale exercise that allowed U.S. and coalition forces to execute an operation plan. The exercise allowed them to trade

  • McChord Airmen participate in Annual Swim to Live event

    The Bellingham Bay is located in northern Washington just 17 miles south of the Canadian border. Its waters are dark, murky and flowing with strong currents. The water temperature of the bay stays just below 50 degrees. Monday morning, four Airmen from McChord Field jumped in and swam a relay of

  • Fabrication flight keeps C-17s in the air

    Behind the scenes of the 62nd Airlift Wing, Airmen from the 62nd Maintenance Squadron fabrication flight work day and night to keep our McChord C-17 Globemaster III aircraft flying.Responsible for repair and refabrication of aircraft structural components, fabrication flight is a vital part of

  • TACPs and Army Special Forces put their battlefield skills to the test

    Airmen and Soldiers competed to see who had the best battlefield-ready team during the Cascade Challenge here Aug. 19.The Cascade Challenge is a vigorous three-day competition created to test the skills of tactical air control party and Army Special Forces members. The competition challenges the

  • Airmen test their limits

    For athletes, swimming 2.4 miles in Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, might sound like enough of a challenge - then add a 112-mile bicycle ride directly after that swim and a few might reconsider signing up. But that's not all. As a finale: a 26.2 mile run. Now even the most pshysically fit athletes might

  • Officials celebrate connectivity

    The merger to create Joint Base Lewis-McChord may have occurred four years ago, but for the first time a project is underway that will physically connect the Lewis Main and McChord Field areas of the base. On Aug. 19 installation commander Col. H. Charles Hodges Jr., gave Sen. Patty Murray, Rep.

  • McChord flying squadrons receive new deployment schedule

    For the first time since 2006, all four of the 62nd Airlift Wing's airlift squadrons are home.The squadrons are back home as result of a new deployment rotation schedule which will allow them to rotate deployments with Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. "This rotation allows for a greater period