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  • AFPC Spread the Word team visits McChord

    The Air Force Personnel Center Spread the Word team visited McChord's maintenance and logistics officers as part of the Spread the Word base tour Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. "AFPC is evolving to provide personnel services in new formats through new programs, and we want to communicate these changes in the

  • McChord Airman to compete at Scott AFB

    A McChord Airman will compete in the AMC Icon finals Oct. 22 at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.Team McChord's Icon finalist, Airman 1st Class Rachel Kleist, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, out-sang 11 Airmen recently to win the base-level competition and the opportunity to represent the 62nd Airlift

  • WADS staff sergeant aids injured commissary patron

    A Western Air Defense Sector staff sergeant quickly responded to the needs of an elderly commissary shopper when she fell in the parking lot and hit her head Aug. 31. Staff Sgt. Angelina Christianson, witnessed the woman fall and leapt into action. "I responded to an elderly woman who had fallen in

  • McChord maintainers get C-17 back ‘online’ through tele-conference

    McChord maintainers recently came to the rescue of a C-17 Globemaster III which had developed a computer problem in the avionics system while on a mission to Africa and Europe. Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Bennett and Staff Sgt. Matthew Mazure, 62nd Maintenance Group avionics technicians, guided a McChord 8th

  • McChord Airmen deliver equipment to American Samoa

    A C-17 Globemaster III from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., touched down at Pago Pago International Airport late Oct. 1, bringing nine Federal Emergency Management Agency members and 17,000 pounds of cargo to American Samoa in support of relief operations. The mission was McChord's first humanitarian

  • McChord Airmen fly response team to Samoa

    In the wake of a 7.6 magnitude undersea earthquake that caused a devastating tsunami to strike American Samoa, McChord Airmen, on-alert to support any tasking associated with a mounting relief effort, deployed a U.S.-based FEMA team to the region at 2 p.m. Thursday aboard a C-17 Globemaster III.

  • Giants of Air Power celebrate at McChord

    Sixty-two years of air power excellence -- past, present and future, connected more than 600 Airmen, family members and community leaders as they gathered here Saturday to celebrate the 62nd Air Force birthday with guest of honor, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz.Following a powerful

  • News continues after final Airlifter edition

    Wing news continues online, and in two other publications following today's final edition of The Northwest Airlifter as an authorized publication of the 62nd Airlift Wing. The latest wing news, feature stories and photographs remain available on the 62nd AW public Web site: www.mcchord.af.mil (via

  • Airmen honor former prisoners of war

    More than 60 former prisoners of war packed the McChord Clubs and Community Center ballroom Sept. 17 for the annual luncheon held in their honor. Each veteran was paired with an Airman for the duration of the event. "There were a lot of good conversations going on throughout the lunch," said Senior

  • Critical Days end, fall safety focus begins

    Even though the Critical Days of Summer Campaign is officially at an end, there is a serious issue to address before going into the Fall Safety Campaign. There were more fatalities this summer than in the prior two years. "There were 22 Air Force-wide fatalities due to lack of proper safety