Top AF financial manager visits McChord for DEAMS rollout

Dr. Jamie Morin, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, made a brief visit to the 62nd Comptroller Squadron here April 2, to oversee the unit's implementation of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System, a new financial management system

McChord Civic Leaders visit Travis AFB

March 28 started as a normal day does for a flying wing with an aircrew brief given by a C-17 Globemaster III pilot, but instead of just briefing his crew, this time the aircraft commander had a special audience of 24 civic leaders from around the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., area.The civic

McChord Airmen help USO offload truckloads of cookies

Training focuses on combat joint operations

Travis Airmen, in coordination with Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Fairchild Air Force Base, the 621st Contingency Response Group and Navy Carrier Wing 2, completed advanced combat operations training Monday and Tuesday from Travis AFB down the California coast to San Diego. "Essentially ACOT is the 60th

Weeklong competition helps bring out the best in Airmen

Thirty Airmen of the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron were put to a demanding, weeklong test during a recent Tactical Air Control Party competition that simulated the challenges of regular deployments.With a 14-mile ruck march in full body armor and a 10-hour land navigation exercise, the

4th AS hosts Pilot for a Day

Hatfields beware: EAS commander pilots joint, combined team to triumph in Romania

No man contributed more to the first repatriation mission through Mihail Kogalniceanu than Air Force Lt. Col. Todd McCoy.Service loyalties notwithstanding, 100 soldiers of 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, literally applauded the performance of the Air Force

McChord chapel, NCO win annual AMC awards

McChord Field's chapel and its senior most NCO have won the Air Mobility Command's annual "best of" awards and now are competing for Air Force-level awards.McChord's chapel last won in 2012, while this is a first for Master Sgt. Irene Williams, chaplain's assistant."They've got a great reputation

'Crisis Look' exercise lets McChord Airmen test their emergency deployment response time

A conflict breaks out somewhere in the world. American citizens or allies are under attack. The U.S. military is called upon to respond as fast as possible to the situation.It could happen at any time, so each year the Air Force drills all of its bases as a part of Readiness Exercise Crisis

Commissary shoppers now have club-pack options, too

Being a part of prototype projects is nothing new for Janice Coleman, store director for the McChord Field Commissary here.In a program that began March 7, her store became the pilot location for the new Commissary Club format with a section dedicated to club packs and oversized packaged products