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  • Congratulations to NCO Academy Class 12-7

    Congratulations to the following technical sergeants who graduated the Forrest L. Vosler NCO Academy Oct. 30, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.Distinguished graduateWesley EngleGraduatesHerbert DungcaPaige FryeAndrew HamiltonAdam HargroveJohn HavensSean HooperMichael HumphreyJames JohnsonShane

  • Professional gathering signals a new approach to professional development

    Air Mobility Command is taking advantage of a single symposium to take the place of 11 separate conferences that would have otherwise been held throughout the past year. To get there, officials had to re-imagine how to get the same value out of 4-hour conferences at a single symposium that they had

  • Mobility Airmen to honor General Johns with Order of Sword

    Air Mobility Command enlisted men and women will present Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., AMC commander, the prestigious Order of the Sword in a formal ceremony here, Nov. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the Scott Club. More than 300 Airmen from across the command are expected to attend.Johns was formally notified of

  • APS Airman honored at American Red Cross heroes breakfast

    An Airman from the 62nd Aerial Port Squadron was honored Oct. 24 at the 2012 American Red Cross Pierce County Heroes Breakfast.Staff Sgt. Landon Jensen, 62nd APS ramp services supervisor, received the "Military Hero Award" for saving a woman from a burning car last year. "Our annual heroes breakfast

  • DOD: Families, friends need to recognize signs of suicide

    Last month was National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month which is a reminder to everyone in the military community to watch out for each other, a senior defense official said.Jacqueline Garrick, acting director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office, told the Pentagon Channel and American

  • Team McChord completes 500th Deep Freeze mission

    Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, deployed from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., as part of the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, completed a milestone event when they flew the 500th C-17 Globemaster III Special Assignment Airlift Mission into Antarctica in support of Operation Deep

  • ‘Army Wives’ producers, writers gain insight from JBLM families

    Reality met television last week when producers and writers of the hit Lifetime television show, "Army Wives," met with Joint Base Lewis-McChord families to discuss their experiences, Oct. 10. The crew travels to one military post a year for story ideas, and this visit marks their first to a joint

  • CFC donations benefit our 4-legged friends, too

    (Editor's note: The Combined Federal Campaign kicked off at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Oct. 9. To donate, contact Master Sgt. Andrea Andreasen at (253) 982-6574, or Master Sgt. Todd Wivell, at (253) 982-5645, or visit http://cfcgive.org/)Wagging tails and cold noses may not be the first things