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  • JBLM assists Travis C-17s after base evacuation

    Four of Travis Air Force Base’s (AFB) C-17 Globemaster IIIs and 75 personnel arrived here during the late hours of Aug. 19 as the base served as an evacuation site due to California’s wildfires.Travis Air Force Base installation commander ordered an evacuation order Aug. 19 in response to the LNU

  • JBLM assists Travis AFB with C-17 evacuation

    Four C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., in the late and early hours of Aug. 19-20, 2020. JBLM was ready to support Travis AFB with their evacuation efforts to relocate aircraft from the wildfires there. The Travis

  • JBLM supports Travis evacuation efforts

    Joint Base Lewis-McChord is expected to receive C-17 Globemaster IIIs and supporting personnel from Travis Air Force Base, California in an effort to relocate aircraft from the devastating wildfires there. “Our thoughts are with our teammates in California during this time,” said Col Erin

  • Team McChord executes Exercise Long Hammer/Rainier War

    Team McChord participated in Exercise Long Hammer/Rainier War, August 3 - 7 here, testing deployment and readiness capabilities while implementing and complying with COVID-19 prevention measures.Long Hammer tested the 627th Air Base Group’s rapid deployment processing line while Rainier War focused

  • 62 MXG participates in Exercise Long Hammer/Rainier War

    The 62nd Maintenance Group (MXG) participated in Team McChord’s Exercise Long Hammer/Rainier War here, Aug. 3-7.The exercise tested Team McChord’s ability to rapidly deploy and conduct airlift operations while complying with real-world COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures.For the 62nd MXG, they had

  • Exercise Rainier War 2020 provides team-wide training opportunities

    Exercise Rainier War 2020 was conducted at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. from Aug 3 - 7, 2020. The purpose of Rainier War is to exercise and evaluate the ability to plan, generate, and execute an airlift tasking, to sustain contingency operations, and demonstrate limited elements of full spectrum

  • 62nd AW tests new way to train aircrews

    The 62nd Airlift Wing is conducting a trial run for a new way to train C-17 Globemaster III aircrews and keep them up to date on qualifications from July 1 to Dec. 31, here.Maj. Nick Burke, 62nd Operations Support Squadron director of wing training, partnered with the Air Force Institute of

  • Sports medicine innovations improve TACP health, readiness

    Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) Airmen have a unique job. They embed with units on the front lines of battlefields to call in air strikes during a fight.The TACP Airmen of the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron perform jobs that require some of the highest levels of physical fitness in the Air

  • 627th CES prolongs life of flightline

    Pavement and construction technicians from the 627th Civil Engineer Squadron work together to reseal cracks on the McChord Field flight line on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., June 25, 2020. Resealing is done with melted tar funneled into the cracks and left to dry, which prolongs the life of the