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  • Can’t spell team without eat: 28th FSS wins AFGSC Hennessy

    Senior Airman Caprice Walker, a food services journeyman assigned to the 28th Force Support Squadron, checks the temperature of stuffed peppers inside the Raider Café at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 11, 2018. Having won the Hennessy award several times in the past, an award recognizing the

  • Santa flies with 28th OG giving gifts to families

    Santa Claus has been flying with the 28th Operations Group for the last 11 years delivering Christmas gifts to children enrolled in the Youth and Family Services Child Development Center in Rapid City, S.D.

  • Recognizing and preventing influenza

    Members of the 28th Medical group are ready to serve team Ellsworth if they are feeling sick. The influenza virus, affects roughly 64 million people a year. Symptoms can include fever, fatigue, dry cough, runny nose, chills, muscle aches, severe headaches and sore throat. (U.S. Air Force photo

  • TESC distributes 10,000 cookies to Airmen

    Homemade cookies sit on a table during the annual holiday cookie drive hosted by the Team Ellsworth Spouses Club at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Dec. 14, 2017. The TESC collected over 10,000 cookies donated by the local community and delivered them to more than 700 Airmen living in base

  • Ellsworth Airmen assist in wildfire consuming Custer

    Ellsworth Airmen worked side-by-side with more than 330 firefighters from districts across four surrounding states to combat a wildfire consuming Custer State Park that began Dec. 11.“A downed power line was the original cause to the fire, the winds were really bad that night and knocked a tree on

  • Menorah will light up Ellsworth for first time in 22 years

    For the first time in 22 years, the Ellsworth AFB Chapel is hosting a base-wide menorah lighting on December 19 at noon.The menorah will be lit at the Freedom Chapel to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. Anyone with base access is welcome at the event.Chanukah is a Jewish holiday

  • JTACs and aircrews participate in joint exercise over PRTC

    Ellsworth aircrews worked side-by-side with members of the 582nd Helicopter Group and Joint Terminal Attack Controllers from the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, during a joint-training exercise over the Powder River Training Complex from Dec. 4 to 8, 2017.The exercise provided each unit an

  • 2017 base tree lighting brightens up the holidays

    Alaina Lara, daughter of Senior Airman Ashley Sammelman, a metals technician assigned to the 28th Maintenance Squadron, reaches for one of the Christmas tree lights during the Base Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Dec. 1, 2017. This annual event provides Airmen and