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  • 4th AS Conducts Local Training Mission

    The mission involved alert start procedures, tactical departures and arrivals, instrument procedures, assault landings, and specialized fueling operations. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Kylee Tyus) 

  • Back to Blue: The Impact of my Time in Honor Guard

    It’s 7:30 a.m. on my first day of honor guard training and I am late. Already, the new trainees are lined up outside preparing for uniform inspection. I drop my stuff, run outside and fall into the eerily quiet line. This is how the McChord Honor Guard experience begins for every new rotation of

  • Look at all those C-17s!

    The 62nd Airlift Wing is the active duty wing on McChord Field. The 62nd Airlift Wing is joined by its Reserve partner the 446th Airlift Wing. Together, the two wings fly 40 C-17 Globemaster IIIs to provide combat airlift for America. Joint Base Lewis-McChord also hosts the Western Air Defense

  • CATM Instructors keep Team McChord Airmen mission ready

    Team McChord Airmen prepare to fire weapons during weapons qualifications training at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, May 10, 2023. Weapons qualifications are held to ensure service members are deployment ready. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kylee Tyus)

  • 62d AW hosts Civil Air Patrol Chaplains Group

    During the tour, CAP chaplains and volunteers visited the 62d Airlift Wing to learn more about various career fields, mission and tour a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. CAP chaplains oversee the morale and spiritual welfare of CAP members and guide them in living out CAP’s core values. (U.S. Air

  • 5th ASOS holds annual 24-Hour TACP Memorial Run

    U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party Airmen with the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron host the annual 24-hour TACP Run at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, May 11-12, 2023. The event is held annually by TACP units across the Air Force in honor of those who have fallen in the line of duty

  • 4th AS reignites Pilot For A Day program

    The goal of the Pilot for a Day program is to provide children and their families in the local community who have catastrophic illnesses a once in a lifetime opportunity; the child is issued a flight suit and visits different mission sets around base such as the Security Forces Squadron Working Dog