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  • Staff Sergeant: Making the grade

    Throughout the Air Force, Airmen devote a considerable amount of time and energy to promotions within the enlisted force structure. Senior Airmen looking to promote to staff sergeant have already begun to develop supervisory and leadership skills through responsibilities given to them while on the

  • Profiles of the B-1: Crew Chief

    The B-1B Lancer can travel faster than the speed of sound and carry a payload of 75,000 pounds, which makes it far more complex than the wooden, gasoline-powered flyer the Wright brothers used. This elaborate configuration requires the B-1 to use a dedicated maintenance team to keep it in the

  • This month in history: World War II fosters modern motorcycle clubs

    America's history with motorcycles begins in the early 1900's when a motorcycle was essentially a bicycle fitted with a small motor. This mode of transportation, according to William Dulaney of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies in his 2005 research article, was a "relatively affordable

  • This month in history: The Declaration of Independence's story

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These 35 words are the second statement of the Declaration of Independence and formed

  • Tending to the flock - Why the 887th ESFS chaplain refuses to be left behind

    He's a consistent, comforting presence just in the background of the 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron's guardmounts, sometimes bearing cookies, sometimes a joke and sometimes just a prayer or two for any who wants one. He doesn't wait for Airmen to come to him with their problems, rather

  • This month in history: Black Hills explorer Jedediah Smith dies

    He was the quintessential mountain man one would find in any tale of explorers carving out the wild and untamed western portion of the United States. He was a trapper, hunter, businessman and diplomat. A grizzly bear literally tore off his scalp and he asked a fellow explorer, while in the middle of

  • A better life in Afghanistan: Part 2 in 3 part series

    Master Sgt. Dewane Brown, Medical Embedded Training Team mentor at a forward operating base in Afghanistan said in a March interview, "The Afghani people want a better life in Afghanistan. They want a life without war and a reason to live." Sergeant Brown is normally assigned as the NCO-in-charge of

  • Who Killed the Red Baron? Controversy still lives 91 years later

    He never, despite popular culture, fought against Snoopy flying atop his doghouse. Nor is he a proprietor of frozen pizza. Yes, he really did exist. In the skies above Vauz sur Somme, France, April 21, 1918, the highest-scoring ace of World War I was shot down by enemy fire and died. Almost

  • Airman 'kills' in USAFE volleyball tournament

    With the clock ticking down, the score tied in the deciding fifth set and an international crowd looking on, player five jumped for the kill; securing the match point of the Allied Component Command Air Headquarters Ramstein Inter-Nations Championship Volleyball game held at Lakenheath Air Base,