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  • JBLM Dentists celebrate National Children's Dental Health Month

    The month of February is recognized as National Children's Dental Health Month.  This month's key message encourages children to develop and practice good oral hygiene habits.  As an initiative to recognize this month, the dentists, hygienists and technicians at Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Dental

  • McChord hosts Honorary Commanders Change of Command

    More than 15 civic leaders and community partners from the Puget Sound took an oath to support the men and women of Team McChord and the United States Air Force during an Honorary Commander change of command ceremony at the McChord Chapel Support Center Feb. 22., Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.The

  • McChord Maintenance Response Team-ready on a moments notice

    An inevitable part of flying any aircraft is that they will need maintenance at some point or another. One particular C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing needed that maintenance, when it broke down at North Island Naval Station, Calif., Feb. 16.A four person Maintenance Recovery

  • Team McChord hosts Deployed family dinner

    The McChord Field Chapel staff along with Team McChord leadership and members of the 62nd Aerial Port Squadron hosted a deployed family dinner for more than 70 family members, Feb. 19 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.The dinner is conducted quarterly as a way to reach out to families of deployed

  • Operation Next Step

    The 627th Force Support Squadron Military Personnel Section of Joint Base Lewis-McChord conducted its inaugural transition assistance event, Operation Next Step Feb. 17, in building 100 on McChord Field, Wash. This event brought together more than 70 transitioning service members, transition

  • McChord Airmen earn third straight AMC award

    Before 2013, it had been nearly a decade since the 627th Security Forces Squadron had won a command-level award.But the squadron stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was told Feb. 12 it has won the Air Mobility Command's Best Small Security Forces Unit for the third consecutive year.The award goes

  • ALS Instructors do more than Teach

    The Julius A. Kolb Airman Leadership School instructors at Joint Base Lewis- McChord, Wash., spend more than 172 hours in the classroom per class and with more than two dozen students per class and classes starting every six weeks they have done more for the U.S. Air Force than teach thousands of

  • JBLM Soldier completes ALS

    Airman Leadership School serves as an enlisted Air Force member's first professional military education course. Not only has the McChord ALS Julius A. Kolb developed leadership abilities in Airmen, but also has recently developed the skills of members in other branches of the service.Spc. Andrew

  • 627th CES enables Air Power World Wide

    "The mission does not happen without us."These were some of the first words Lt. Col. Michael Francis, 627th Civil Engineer Squadron commander, had for the returning members of the 627th CES, Jan. 27 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.From Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to Ethopia, Jordan and Ahmed Al