Hundreds show for fallen Marine's return home

About a thousand people lined Harmon Drive from the 12th Flying Training Wing headquarters to the main gate here the morning of July 26 to honor fallen Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brandon Lara as a motorcade bringing his body home passed. The 20-year-old from New Braunfels, Texas, was on his second tour

Chief Roy honored at special breakfast

Photo essay: Drone recovery

A crew from Florida Offshore demonstrated the recovery of a BQM-167 Air Force Subscale Aerial Target recently in the waters off of Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.  The Florida Offshore crew is contracted through the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron to help recover sub-scale drones after they are shot down

War hero brought home, laid to rest after 40 years missing in action

As three rifle vollies rang throughout Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery July 27, the sounds meant a Vietnam War veteran who had been missing in action for more than 40 years was finally home to rest . Active-duty members, retirees and their families gathered at Chief Master Sgt. Quincy Adam's final

Air Force team to assess Iraqi air defense needs

Air Force officials are sending an assessment team to Iraq to look at how the Iraqi military can field an air defense once American forces leave in 2011. The team is expected in the country shortly, said Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, during a roundtable July 28

Air Force doctor wins national award

An Air Force doctor here was one of 10 receipients recently selected for the 2009 American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Award. Capt. (Dr.) Angelique Collamer is a physician, teacher and researcher assigned to the 59th Medical Wing, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, but works in the

Lackland officer wins Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Award

The operating room flight commander at the 59th Surgical Operations Squadron here recently was selected the 2009 recipient of the Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Military Award at the field grade officer category by the Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated. Lt. Col. Jacqueline Mudd will be presented with the

Families, volunteers essential to nation's defense, says Reserve Affairs chief

Family support is vital to the more than 700,000 members of the National Guard and Reserve who have been called to duty since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the assistant secretary of defense for Reserve Affairs said here July 27. "The only way that we can sustain that kind of effort is by having

Photo essay: Working the night shift

Airmen from the 100th Air Refueling Wing here participated in an operational readiness exercise in preparation for an operation readiness inspection later this year. The exercise is designed to prepare Airmen to do their jobs in a deployed environment and in a worst-case scenario. View the

New process to drastically change programmed maintenance

A C-130 Hercules is scheduled to arrive at Robins Air Force Base July 31 to mark the beginning of what is expected by Air Force officials to be a dramatic change in the way aircraft maintenance is done. The Air Mobility Command plane will be the first validation aircraft for high-velocity