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  • Service members get boost in transition to trades

    A new program pairs Joint Base Lewis-McChord with the United Association Local No. 26 to teach welding and heating, ventilation and air conditioning skills to transitioning service members, allowing them to exit the service directly into skilled labor positions. The Veterans in Piping training

  • Congratulations to the 2013 Annual Award recipients

    Congratulations to the following members of Team McChord who were named the "Best of the Best" at the 2014 Annual Awards Banquet Feb. 20.Key SpouseJennifer LongoriaCivilian Category IJohn Draper, 62nd Aerial Port Squadron Civilian Category IIADavid Devine, 5th Air Support Operations SquadronCivilian

  • C-17 crews demonstrate joint, international capabilities

    Five C-17 Globemaster III aircraft departed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and dropped more than 380 U.S. and Royal Thai paratroopers into Lopburi Airfield, Thailand, Feb. 15 in support of Exercise Cobra Gold, a multi-national military exercise.The airdrop operation was flown by

  • Congratulations to ALS Class 14-B

    Congratulations to the following Airmen who graduated Julius A. Kolb Airman Leadership School Feb. 13 at McChord Field, Wash. Staff Sgt. Ryan Abel 627th Civl Engineer Squadron Staff Sgt. Ramsey Tesch 62nd Aerial Port Squadron

  • Congratulations to quarterly award winners

    Congratulations to the following members of the 62nd Airlift Wing who earned a quarterly award for the months of October through December 2013.Airman of the QuarterSenior Airman Kathleen Paul, 62nd Medical Squadron Noncommissioned Officer of the QuarterStaff Sgt. Martin Harrison, 62nd Airlift Wing

  • People + Pride = Performance: Insight from the CSAF

    "I really believe if you are an Air Force and you recruit the best people in the country, which we do, and you train them better than anyone else and you put them with people who make them proud of what they do, how well they do it and what they represent, then you get a performance you can never

  • JBLM crews perform HI-RAIN live fire

    Following months of planning, Airmen and Soldiers completed JBLM's first joint live-fire M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems Rapid Infiltration (HI-RAIN) exercise, Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, in Schoonover, Calif. During the weeklong exercise, six McChord C-17 Globemaster III aircraft transported 12