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  • C-17 maintainer awarded Purple Heart

    An Airman from the 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron was awarded the Purple Heart medal at a ceremony here, Sept. 27.Senior Airman Anthony Haupert, 62nd AMXS communications and navigation systems specialist, sustained injuries during a deployment last year to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, when the

  • DOD spells out closure contingency plan guidance

    DOD officials today issued guidance to the force in the event appropriations lapse Oct. 1 and a government shutdown results. Officials emphasize they still hope Congress can avoid that but say it is prudent to take such steps.The eight-page document gives basic guidance to commanders and directors

  • Memo prepares DOD employees for government shutdown

    Although Defense Department officials believe a government shutdown can be avoided when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, they want DOD employees to be prepared for the possibility, Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a memo issued to the workforce Sept. 23.The fiscal year ends Sept. 30,

  • JBLM Airmen, Soldiers complete joint exercise

    Working side by side in the darkness of the early morning hours of Sept. 19 at McChord Field, Airmen and Soldiers checked gauges, took measurements and made weight calculations for two M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems prior to loading them onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.The units

  • Motivating Airmen for years to come

    Five weeks of lectures, book work and staring at white walls is not the reputation some Airmen want for the Julius A. Kolb Airman Leadership School here. In an effort to enrich the school house, three Airmen from the Rising Four recently painted a mural for the school's learning resource center.More

  • Congratulations to Team McChord's newest NCOA graduates

    Congratulations to the following 17 technical sergeants who graduated Sept. 13, from the Forrest L. Vosler NCO Academy at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.Michael Barbarino, 627th Force Support Squadron Walter Beard, 62nd Maintenance Group Jason Bolen, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance SquadronErik Bush, 62nd