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  • Patient Safety Awareness Week

    During the week of March 4 to 10, communities across the country are hosting a variety of events and sponsoring initiatives as part of Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation. Each year, NPSF sponsors Patient Safety Awareness Week to encourage hospitals to

  • Poison Prevention Week educates Icemen

    For the past 45 years, National Poison Prevention Week has worked to educate and inform consumers of the dangers of unintentional poisonings. These efforts have contributed to a significant decline in injuries and deaths. "Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional

  • Raptors arrive at Kadena

    Ten F-22 Raptors arrived here Saturday and Sunday for the first-ever overseas deployment of the Air Force's newest air supremacy aircraft. The aircraft assigned to the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., started their deployment to Kadena almost 10 days previously with a stop at

  • Airmen support local community, children

    Airmen came together for the 19th Annual Bowl for Kids' Sake at the bowling center Feb. 17 with hopes of making a difference in the lives of children throughout the Fairbanks community. More than 100 bowlers and 23 volunteers took part in the day-long bowl-a-thon hosted by Big Brothers, Big Sisters

  • Cope Tiger 07 wraps up Feb. 9

    The skies over Korat Air Base, Thailand are now silent and all aircraft are in the chalks as Feb. 9 marked the end of Cope Tiger 2007. Cope Tiger 2007, a multilateral exercise between the Royal Thai, the Republic of Singapore and U.S. Air Forces, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps, ran from

  • Civilian guards test new uniform

    Civilian guard members of the 18th Security Forces Squadron got a new look when they began wear testing a prototype uniform Feb. 8. The civilian guard uniform was designed to match the Airman Battle Uniform. Its lighter color was the result of feedback from civilian guard members. "Our civilian

  • 36th OG reactivates, gains new commander

    The 36th Operations Group was reactivated after more than a decade to serve as the focal point for the Air Force's expeditionary operations taking place on Guam. The 36th OG will assume the mission of the 36th Expeditionary Operations Group and establish a permanent command structure for deployed

  • Teaching ROK forces to survive the unthinkable

    Members of the Republic of Korea army and air force joined with Wolf Pack members Tuesday near the base track to practice the unthinkable: decontaminating themselves and equipment in the event of a chemical or biological strike on them or the base. Supported by the 8th Civil Engineer Squadron