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  • Ellsworth Contractors Work With Tribe to Destroy Bombs

    Contractors from the 28th Civil Engineering Squadron and Native American Engineering detonated four spent munitions Oct. 3, 2011 on the Air Force Retained Area of the World War II era Badlands Bombing Range on Pine Ridge Reservation 20 miles southeast of Phoenix, South Dakota. The spent munitions

  • Cadets perform flood relief work in South Dakota

    Approximately 150 Air Force Academy cadets removed sandbags and cleared flood debris Sept. 29-Oct. 2 here.The cadets travelled to South Dakota to spend the weekend participating in a flood cleanup as part of the Academy's Cadet Service Learning program. The Cadet Wing performs approximately 40,000

  • Atomic veterans visit Ellsworth

    Eight surviving veterans of the 509th Composite Group along with their friends and family visited Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Sept. 28 as part of the group's annual reunion.The 509th CG is the World War II unit that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945. During

  • Downed Trees

    The Commander's Action Line is a forum for the Ellsworth community to make suggestions or voice concerns about Ellsworth directly to Col. Mark Weatherington, 28th Bomb Wing commander. QUESTIONAbout a year ago, I checked with the Fraud, Waste and Abuse office concerning having access to the downed

  • Free Online Tutoring for Military Families

    As we settle into the new school year, I'd like to remind military families there is a free and extremely helpful resource available to them and their children at www.tutor.com/military. Children of military members can find support they need, should they need it, to be successful students.The site

  • Limited power outage to occur Oct. 1

    A power outage will occur Oct. 1, 2011 in Buildings 115, 1011, 1008, 905, 2405, 1301 from 7 to 9 a.m. Building 1007 will be on generator backup during that time. The outage is necessary so the 28th Civil Engineer Squadron can replace a power pole.

  • 28th FSS announces October events

    The 28th Force Support Squadron has updated their October 2011 events list to reflect all of the events available to the Air Force community here.To view the calendar, click here.

  • Ellsworth Airmen keep cargo, people rolling ahead

    Airmen from the 28th Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Terminal Operations Center teamed up with augmentees from the 28th Civil Engineer Squadron Sept. 23 to successfully load cargo destined for a forward operating location onto a C-17 Globemaster III.The task of transporting people and cargo in and