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  • 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

  • McChord- Maintainer mentors cadets while pursuing his dream

    For one Airmen, it didn’t take him long to realize thatmentoring Civil Air Patrol cadets was something he was greatly interested in.Senior Airman Jason Washington, 62nd Aircraft MaintenanceSquadron aerospace maintenance journeyman, saw mentoring CAP members as anopportunity to give back to the

  • McChord demonstrates coalition collaboration

    For the last few years Team McChord has participated in ajoint partnership with the Royal Canadian Air Force exchange program gearedtoward loadmasters and pilots.For two of those years RCAF Sgt. Wes Ramsay, 8th AirliftSquadron loadmaster, has been part of Team McChord and has participated in

  • McChord delivers in Swift Response

    Three McChord air crews demonstrated their air mobility capabilitiesby delivering more than 250 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers, Polish and BritishForces and their equipment to Poland during Exercise Swift Response 2016 onJune 7.Exercise Swift Response 2016 is a significant month long militarycrisis

  • McChord: Delivering Rapid Global Air Mobility, One Drop at a Time

    Three McChord C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and crews journeyedto Pope Army Air Field North Carolina June 4 to team up with four C-17’s fromJoint Base Charleston, South Carolina, to conduct a personnel air drop beforethey made their way to Europe to participate in a large scale exercise known

  • Team McChord welcomes newest Pilots for a Day – Nicholas and Daniel Duffy

    The 4th Airlift Squadron welcomed the two newest Team McChord 'honorary' "Pilots for a Day," Nicholas and Daniel Duffy on May 26 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.McChord's Pilot for a Day program invites children of all ages, military or civilian, to be a guest of the 62nd Airlift Wing and