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  • World War I aviation drama coming to Air Force’s national museum

    One of the nation’s premier historical aviation events will bring the excitement and adrenaline of World War I air power to the National Museum of the United States Air Force Sept. 30 - Oct. 2.The Dawn Patrol Rendezvous World War I Fly-In will feature vintage reproduction World War I aircraft flying over the museum, with aircraft launching from and
  • Raptor completes avionics testing, advances to next phase of acquisition

    The F/A-22 Raptor recently finished avionics Engineering Manufacturing Development, or EMD, testing here, and surpassed 2,592 flight hours, pushing the aircraft testing one step closer to taking its place as the premiere weapon system of the U.S. Air Force. "This Mission-Avionics testing tied in system effectiveness (can we accomplish the mission),
  • AFMC headquarters overhauls office symbols

    Alphabet soup isn't the staple in the joint-forces world that it is in the Air Force. If you're at a joint job and you need to talk to somebody in personnel, you don't look for the two-letter symbol, DP. You look for the number, 1, preceded by J, for Joint. So does everybody else, regardless of their branch of service.Beginning Oct. 1, everyone at
  • Systems group adds technology to mix of Hurricane Katrina relief support

    While millions of tons of relief supplies are flowing into the Gulf Coast daily, the Operations and Sustainment Systems Group here is shoring up the vital flow of communications to the hurricane-stricken region. Hours after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the group's team of communications, logistics, contracting and acquisition experts were
  • Robins Air Force Base lends helping hand to Katrina evacuees

    While hundreds of Robins Air Force Base Airmen headed into the Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, some of the personnel who remained reached out to those who were seeking a place of refuge in Middle Georgia. Christine Parker, Robins Family Support Center director, said they are working to help Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph
  • Hill Air Force Base deploys Airmen to aid Katrina victims

    A total of 17 active-duty members from Hill Air Force Base have deployed to various locations to aid Hurricane Katrina victims. One active duty member from the 75th Contracting Squadron left Saturday for the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans to provide contracting support to Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of
  • Controllers get surprise visit from evacuee

    Just days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall devastating the Gulf Coast region, Latifa Johnson gathered her children, packed a few belongings and trekked from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., to the safety of Robins Air Force Base, Ga.What the wife and mother of three - ages 12, 6 and 4 - thought would be at most a weekend stay has since turned
  • Tinker Air Force Base shows its purple suit

    The Family Support Center at Tinker Air Force Base is doing its part to help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by providing temporary housing and support for displaced families from Mississippi. As of Sept. 7, the center helped three families settle into the community by providing medical services, food, clothing and other needed items. According to
  • Captain Mangione wants to be a millionaire

    When this story is published, Capt. Gregory Mangione, a physician assistant in the 88th Medical Group's orthopedic unit, will be a millionaire -- or not.He will have been a contestant on an episode of the popular television show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" the first weekend in October. However, don't ask him how he fared. He won't tell you.
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