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  • Women Airforce Service Pilot celebrates 100th birthday at JBLM

    Dorothy Olsen, former Women Airforce Service Pilot, celebrated her 100th birthday at Joint Base Lewis- McChord, Washington, on July 10, 2016.Olsen is a part of living, breathing military history and she’s a century worth of it.  During World War II, Olsen flew fighter aircraft, her favorite being

  • JBLM children learn the deployment process

    For most service members, deployments are nothing new, but the process is still capable of causing stress to the member and their families. Although programs such as the JBLM Armed Forces Community Service are available to help the deploying member, Joint Base Lewis McChord took additional measures

  • 1st Air Support Operations Group welcomes new commander

    Airmen from the 1st Air Support Operations Group saluted their new commander for the first time during a change of command ceremony here July 6. Their incoming commander Col. Jon Berry assumed command of the group from the outgoing commander Col. James Bowen. The ceremony was presided over by Col.

  • Team McChord supports Moses Lake 50th Anniversary

    To mark the 50th Anniversary from the day the U.S. Air Force presented the keys of Larson Air Force Base to the Port of Moses Lake, officials hosted an Open House for the local community on July 1.More than 2,800 members of the local community walked around the Grant County International Airport and

  • Airmen and Soldiers deliver in Thunder Rain exercise

    Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airmen and Soldiers successfully transported and simulated firing two High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems in a rapid infiltration HI-RAIN exercise June 22, at Moses Lake, Washington. Their participation in the exercise called “Thunder Rain” was to help them become

  • Flying crew chiefs keep mission going abroad

    When a C-17 Globemaster III aircrew takes off for a mission and plans on being in a location without proper maintenance support they bring along a 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flying crew chief to ensure the aircraft is taken care of.FCCs are a one person maintenance crew whose sole purpose is

  • Teamwork key to 62nd AW success at Central Accord 2016

    Delivering a Global Response Force is something the Airmen of the 62nd Airlift Wing practice regularly, but up until now that response force has never been brought to the African continent like it was for exercise Central Accord 2016.From June 10-24 in and around Libreville, Gabon on the Western

  • Living History: WWII vets and B17 take to the sky over Seattle

    The B-17 Flying Fortress is an icon of World War II, especially when talking about the aerial war in the European theater. A bomber that could do things no other could before it. With a payload of 9,600 pounds and a range of 3,750 miles the B-17s were able to inflict heavy losses on Axis’s

  • Precision down to the millionth

    Team McChord Airmen provide global airlift on a daily basis and Airmen from the 62nd Maintenance Squadron Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory contribute some uncommonly known services to make that happen. The PMEL shop, part of the 62nd MXS test measurement diagnostic equipment flight here is

  • Airman pursues equestrian passion

    A small gathering of spectators watch silently as a horse and its rider slowly round a corner of the course and gracefully go into a new set of movements. The rider is formally dressed and commands the horse with ease as they transition from each movement. An Airmen and competitor, Maj. Jennifer