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  • 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

  • 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

  • JBLM Service Members conduct Operation Desert Cougar

    Air Force and Army service members from here participated in Operation Desert Cougar, a joint emergency deployment readiness exercise that took them to Schoonover, California, August 4.Airmen from the 446th Airlift Wing and the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron worked with Soldiers from the 1st Special

  • AMC Commander visits JBLM

    Gen. Darren McDew, Air Mobility Command commander, and his wife, Evelyn, along with Chief Master Sgt. Victoria Gamble, AMC command chief, visited Joint Base Lewis-McChord July 23 through July 25.This was the first time Gen. and Mrs. McDew visited JBLM since he took command of AMC May 5, 2014.

  • AWACS receives new upgrades

    Airmen of the AWACS Joint Test Force in Seattle, Washington have recently completed testing for an upgrade to the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System. The AWACS Joint Test Force is comprised of Air Combat Command personnel assigned to Detachment 1, 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron,