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  • Silver Flag trains Support Airmen

    Approximately 10 Airmen from several units across the Air Force and Air Force Reserve participated in the 622nd Force Support Silver Flag contingency operations training exercise Jan. 23 through 28 here. The Silver Flag training facility is responsible for educating students in classroom and field

  • 30 APS travels to Dobbins to deliver equipment, conduct training

    Approximately 29 members of the 30th Aerial Port Squadron from here, traveled to Dobbins Air Reserve Base, for a scheduled off-station 3-Day Unit Training Assembly event during the January UTA earlier this month.The training event, hosted by the Transportation Proficiency Center schoolhouse,

  • Combat Arms training

    Qualifiers aim and shoot at targets at the Dobbins shooting range Jan. 9, 2015 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. Qualifiers were required to fire two shots to the large center mass circle and one shot to the head as part of a failure to stop drill, said Master Sgt. Bryan Reeves, 94th Airlift Wing

  • Blended Retirement Talking Points

    Blended Retirement Talking Points• There is no need to be anxious about the blended retirement system in the current FY2016 NDAA. Everyone who is currently serving as well as those who enter the force on or before December 31, 2017 is grandfathered under the current military retirement system.

  • January is National Blood Donation Month

    The U. S. Air Force has a long history when it comes to our national blood donation system. The system dates all the way back to World War II when the Army-Air Corps/U.S. Air Force created the capabilities to transport much needed blood products from the United States into the many campaign

  • Desert Storm 25 years later: Gulf War veterans recall experiences

    Sunday notes the 25th Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm. U.S. and coalition forces began attacking Iraqi military forces Jan. 17, 1991, to oust them from Kuwait, transitioning operations from Operation Desert Shield to Operation Desert Storm.More than 500,000 American servicemembers deployed to

  • Life goes on, but not the same

    Four years ago Jan. 12, I received a phone call that completely changed my life. I woke up to news that my best friend Robby had been killed. For several hours I felt paralyzed before I broke down. I poured through all the photo albums I had looking at pictures of us from when we were kids hanging

  • Colorado Reservists, C-130s to support Southwest Asia airlift operations

    Approximately 150 Air Force Reservists and four C-130s from Colorado’s 302nd Airlift Wing have begun a four-month deployment to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.  Assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing based at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, the aircrew, aircraft

  • 94th FSS welcomes new commander

    Maj. Wallace Collins receives the 94th Force Support Squadron flag from Col. Marty Hughes, 94th Maintenance Support Group commander, marking the assumption of command for the 94th FSS on Jan. 10, 2016 in Verhulst Hall at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Andrew J.

  • 94th AES welcomes new commander

    Lt. Col. Michael Boles assumed command of the 94th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Jan. 10 in the 22nd Air Force Media Center at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. “28 years in the medical community: that is what we call a subject matter expert,” said Col. James DeVere, 94th Operations Group commander,