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  • 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

  • Ellsworth's hard-working, award-winning active duty 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

  • Nose art competition commemorates anniversaries

    The 28th Bomb Wing Public Affairs office is accepting graphic designs for distinctive and symbolic nose art in good taste to be painted on one operational Ellsworth B-1 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the B-1 arrival at Ellsworth and the 60th anniversary of the Air Force. The competition

  • 12th AF vice commander shares thoughts with Airmen

    Brig. Gen. Joseph Mudd Jr, 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern vice commander, visited here Jan. 25 and 26 as guest speaker for the 28th Bomb Wing Annual Awards Banquet, discuss current operations for 12th Air Force, and talk about what AFSO-21 holds for America's Airmen. He described the big

  • Helpful tips - treat, prevent cold-weather injuries

    On average, 700 people in the United States die annually of hypothermia, which is when the body' s core body temperature drops below 95. Low body temperature can be classified as mild, moderate or severe. Frostbite and frostnip are classified as mild and are caused by exposure to cold temperature

  • A Deployment Cycle; Part 2 of a series

    The B-1 controls the destiny of many Ellsworth servicemembers. It determines where they will work, live, travel on temporary duty, and, ultimately, deploy. Several months ago, B-1s were assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia. Although the location changed, the rhythm of