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  • AFMC promotes 'Be Active' physical activity challenge

    During April and May, Air Force Materiel Command will promote its 'Be Active' Team Challenge. Be Active is a command-wide initiative designed to help the AFMC workforce increase physical activity levels and heighten awareness of proper back care. Participants will receive a FREE copy of the Mayo

  • Division ensuring vital systems sustained

    Battle Management's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division here is working to ensure the abilities of the system that warn the president and national command authorities of attacks will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.Officials from the division awarded a $28 million sustainment task

  • C-17 Drag Reduction testing aims at saving fuel

    From testing synthetic biofuels to "vortex surfing," Edwards AFB is on the forefront of finding new ways to cut fuel costs for the Air Force.The latest venture is currently underway at the 418th Flight Test Squadron where a test team of Air Force and Boeing personnel has just completed the first

  • Crosstalks aimed at improving KC-135 service

    Experts from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the Air Force Reserve, National Guard Bureau and the Legacy Tanker Division conducted a customer support visit to Tinker Air Force Base and at two other bases, March 14-18, to listen to unit concerns regarding KC-135 "Stratotanker" support and

  • Utah vets are ready for the solar industry

    Chase Warner is from a small Wyoming town with rustic charm, a small grocery store that closed at 6 p.m. and an industry based in agriculture.For Warner, this wasn't enough. He joined the National Guard, enrolled in college and pursued a marketing degree, but when he graduated the only industry near

  • Commentary: Spring Wingman Day to focus on spiritual resiliency and fitness

    "Resilient, Agile Workforce" ... this is the goal, the end-state of what we in the Office of the Command Chaplain desire for all of Air Force Materiel Command. We believe Comprehensive Airmen Fitness (CAF), which is founded on the Air Force's four domains of fitness (physical, mental, social and

  • Air Force announces new AFMC command chief

    Air Force officials announced March 24, 2016, the assignment of Chief Master Sgt. Jason L. France as the command chief sergeant of Air Force Materiel Command. He is currently the command chief master sergeant of the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The command's

  • AFSOC commander to Robins AFB: We trust you

    Due to the work of the C-130 Air Force Special Operations Command Acceleration Flight here, the "quiet professionals" of AFSOC can rest assured that an AC-130 gunship will be at their disposal whenever and wherever the mission calls.During a tour of 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maintenance