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  • Airmen encouraged to 'discover the hills'

    Imagine this scenario: you are new to South Dakota (and maybe even new to the Air Force), have never been to the state before, the moving company has delivered your household goods and you've started your new job. Slowly, you are adjusting to the new location but wonder, what is there to do here on

  • Deployed 'Dirt Boyz' pave way for aircraft, Airmen

    Kettles filled with scalding tar, 300-degree asphalt, concrete chemicals that can burn skin -- these are the tools of the trade for heavy equipment operators who labor here under a scorching Iraqi sun. These Airmen, assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, are known as 'Dirt

  • Ellsworth Airman Leadership School students graduate

    Twenty-six enlisted members graduated from Ellsworth's Airman Leadership School and were recognized during a ceremony May 15 at Dakota's. The mission of ALS is to prepare senior airmen for supervisory duties and foster a commitment to the profession of arms. Award winners are: John L. Levitow Award

  • Chairman of Joint Chiefs sends Armed Forces Day message

    Today, American citizens will pause to honor those of you who accept the grave and honorable responsibility of defending our country. It is right we do so. The world remains a dangerous place. The hundreds of thousands of you who have deployed since September 11th -- many of you more than once --

  • Name the Tanker: Leaders seek inputs from Airmen

    Air Force senior leaders are asking all Airmen for suggestions on a name for the service's newest tanker aircraft, the KC-45A. "I've asked that we seek our Airmen's help to find a name for the KC-45," said Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne. "I prefer the name emphasize our heritage or our

  • Motorcycle decals show training accomplished

    Unit safety representatives here will begin distributing decals to active-duty members and Department of Defense civilians who are motorcycle riders as part of an Air Combat Command requirement. "This decal reiterates the importance of motorcycle safety and promotes the necessity of proper

  • AEF Evolution -- Implementing a tempo-based force generation construct

    An improved Global Air and Space Expeditionary Force construct will soon use a tempo-based rule set, building on the current 20-month cycle of five 120-day AEF pairs. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley recently approved the implementation of this tempo-based Global AEF force generation