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.

Team McChord Airmen focus on motorcycle safety

DOCA members tour JBLM

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

McChord Airmen back in action supporting Operation Deep Freeze

Ten 446th Airlift Wing Reservists, and 17 active-duty Airmen depart McChord Field Aug. 16 in the first phase of the 2014--2015 Operation Deep Freeze. The WinFly phase of ODF delivers advance teams and cargo for the upcoming main season of the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic program and

McChord Field Honor Guard Retires US Flags

Civil Air Patrol tours McChord C-17

Joint team supports humanitarian air drop in northern Iraq

U.S. Army parachute riggers at two bases in the region assembled pallets of food and water Aug. 6 and 7 for a humanitarian air drop by a C-17 Globmaster III and two C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft Aug. 8 in the vicinity of Sinjar, Iraq.The aid was assembled after the Iraqi Government sent a request