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  • Local business executive speaks at McChord’s Lunch and Learn

    This month McChord’s Lunch and Learn session featured a local business leader as the guest speaker. Devin Craig, Jimmy John’s director of operations and 4th Airlift Squadron honorary commander provided in-depth leadership advice from an experienced business viewpoint April 7 at the McChord Chapel

  • 62nd MXG maintainers perform C-17 flap change

    Team McChord Airmen recently performed an uncommon maintenance action to a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft flight control as maintainers from the 62nd Maintenance Squadron at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington changed out a faulty C-17 flap April 6.   The 2,200 pound flap replaced a faulty flap and

  • A toast for the ages: 510th Fighter Squadron WWII members reunite

    It was a pact made many years ago when the aging members of the 510th Fighter Squadron from World War II decided to they could no longer attend their annual reunions.The pact, a deal that the last two surviving members of that unit would share a final toast of Brandy in support of their fallen

  • TACP Airmen hold annual memorial run to honor fallen

     More than 200 members, military and civilian, of the 1st Air Support Operations Group, 194th ASOG and Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash., ran and walked 1, 486 miles to raise money for the Tactical Air Control Party Association and to honor TACP Airmen who have died in combat or training.Master Sgt.

  • Team McChord kicks off AFAF ‘17

    Members of Team McChord gathered to celebrate the commencement of the 2017 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign, April 6 at the Chapel Support Center here.The AFAF is an annual effort to raise funds for charitable affiliates such as the Air Force Aid Society, Air Force Villages Charitable Foundation,

  • Mo’ money, no problem: 62nd CPTS keeps finances straight

    Every first and fifteenth, Airmen across Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, awaken to newly-replenished bank accounts; but much like children greeted by gifts on Christmas morning, few questions are asked about how those stockings - or wallets - went from barren to bursting overnight.The answer

  • The chase, the fight, the hunt: 62nd AMXS Airman hits the raceway

    “You’re out there on the track and you feel the adrenaline,” said Airman 1st Class Sabatino DiMascio, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron communication/navigation mission systems specialist. “With the wind blowing around you, the smell of the exhaust, the roar of the engine; you can accelerate, break

  • McChord Captain selected for Olmsted Scholarship

    Capt. Brad Fisher, 62nd Operations Group commander’s inspection program chief, was notified March 22 of his selection to the Olmsted Scholarship Program, a leadership program offered to only a small number of Air Force officers each year. The Olmsted Foundation was established by General George H.

  • McChord Airmen keep flightline mobile

    From all-terrain vehicles to snow plows, Airmen from the 627th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle management flight work on and are responsible for maintaining all government vehicles assigned to McChord Field.  “We accomplish anything from scheduled maintenance, such as an oil change, to