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  • Flu prevention, immunization tips

    The 28th Medical Group reminds members that although flu season may begin in late fall, the most prevalent part of flu season is December through March. Influenza, the virus that causes the flu, is spread by droplets from the mouth and nose. If someone with the flu sneezes or coughs, the virus is

  • Third Party Collection Program

    The following questions and answers provide information about the Third Party Collection Program. The program directs military hospitals and clinics to bill private health insurance plans when beneficiaries receive care in a military treatment facility. The program includes all beneficiaries covered

  • Return from deployment: part 3 of a series

    Ellsworth welcomed home approximately 300 aircrew, maintainers, munitions specialists and other expeditionary combat support Airmen, Feb. 8, from a forward operating location in Southwest Asia. After a more than 20-hour flight, their chartered passenger aircraft touched down on a snowy airfield at

  • ACC funds Ellsworth buses for remainder of school year

    Ellsworth leadership received word today that Air Combat Command would provide the $150,000 necessary to continue school bus service for the remainder of the current school year. "We were faced with a tremendous challenge and through the joint efforts of a number of base organizations and ACC, we

  • Budget constraints could affect Ellsworth school buses

    Air Force-wide budget cuts, which are rapidly becoming hard realities for all Airmen, have the potential to force Ellsworth to discontinue school bus service in order to fund mission essential items. For more than 15 years, Ellsworth has supplied school bus services to base children using funds from

  • Ellsworth's hard-working, award-winning civilian members

    Ellsworth's annual award winners were announced Jan. 26 at the 28th Bomb Wing Annual Awards Banquet, themed, "The Best and Brightest." The keynote speaker was Brig. Gen. Joseph Mudd Jr., 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern vice commander. Masters of ceremony were, Senior Master Sgt. Fernando

  • Joint Operation streaks toward “New Horizons’

    An Air Force Reserve Command C-5A Galaxy loaded with two Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, and five pieces of support vehicles and ground equipment went wheels up Jan. 31st from here and made headway toward "New Horizons." New Horizons is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored readiness training exercise