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  • Ellsworth Airmen return from Southwest Asia

    Approximately 400 Ellsworth Airmen were met with sirens, cheers and hugs from anxious family members when they returned home from a deployment to Southwest Asia in support of missions in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. "We're very proud of all that they have accomplished and

  • Ellsworth mourns loss of Airman

    Chief Master Sgt. Robert E. Hoyt died at approximately 11:30 a.m., Jan. 21 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chief Hoyt, 43, was superintendent of the 28th Security Forces Squadron. Chief Hoyt, a native of Vero Beach, Fla., joined the Air Force in August 1987, and had been stationed at

  • Air Force leave revised

    The changes made in April 2011 to Air Force Instruction 36-3003, Military Leave Program include revised rules related to determining the first and last day of chargeable leave, emergency leave requests, permissive temporary duty and educational leave of absence. The rule for determining the first

  • Ellsworth Airman receives Purple Heart

    "We were coming out of the area around Tikrit in the lead navigation vehicle," said Wiedmer. "We'd just gone around a roundabout, and the front gunner truck had already passed the IED, when BOOM!"Staff Sgt. Christopher Wiedmer, a 28th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle maintainer from Ellsworth

  • Ellsworth kicks off Red Flag training exercise

    B-1 Bomber aircrews assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron and support personnel are scheduled to fly a group of combat training missions over the Nevada Test and Training Range from Jan. 20 to Feb. 3. The Ellsworth Red Flag advance team is scheduled to depart Ellsworth on Jan. 18 with the rest of the

  • Round two of VERA/VSIP begins

    Officials announced that a second round of voluntary early retirement authority and voluntary separation incentive pay incentives is under way as part of the Department of Defense's requirement to maintain civilian funding at FY10 levels. The first round of VERA/VSIP was used as a voluntary means to