Holiday Cookie Drive

Ellsworth providing staging area for FEMA team

In an effort to supplement local recovery efforts in areas affected by severe weather conditions, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency established a Joint Field Office at Ellsworth Dec. 2.FEMA staff - 75 in all operating out of space in the Air Force Financial Services Center - will be

Operation Desert Fox: Recalling the 15th anniversary of the first B-1 combat operation

"I was eating in the mess tent when those photos hit the screen ... the whole tent cheered. I'm not sure I've ever felt anything like that."Those words were relayed by Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Taliaferro, Air Combat Command plans and programs deputy director, during a fond recollection of when the images

AF announces additional force management programs to reduce force size

Air Force leaders announced force management programs Dec. 11 designed to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.Fiscal 2014 force management initiatives are in addition to the announcement made in July, stating the Air Force will implement

Ellsworth commissary now scanning IDs

Commissaries are now scanning customers' Department of Defense ID cards at checkouts as the Defense Commissary Agency continues its pursuit to deliver a 21st century benefit.The commissary at Fort Lee, Va., became the first store to scan ID cards on Oct. 22 as the first part of an agency-wide

Breakfast with Santa

Families of deployed Airmen receive trees

Countless families from across the base made their way to the 28th Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation office Dec. 6, to pick up one of 235 free Christmas trees donated by tree growers from around the nation. The trees, courtesy of the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation were delivered by freight

Tree lighting ceremony

Passenger, CWT Sato Travel office move

The Passenger Travel and Carlson Wagonlit Sato Travel office is now located in Room 109D in the Deployment Center (Bldg. 7510). The office moved from its previous location at 1924 Lemay Boulevard Dec. 5, and is now co-located within the Installation Deployment Readiness Center section. For more

12th AF leaders visit Ellsworth

Ellsworth hosted a visit from Lt. Gen. Tod D. Wolters, 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern) commander, Dec. 3 and 4, and took the opportunity to showcase 28th Bomb Wing Airmen accomplishing the mission at the home to two of the nation's three B-1 combat squadrons.During his visit, Wolters hosted an