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  • Safe Grilling

    Annually, a fire department responds to over 7,900 home fires involving grills. Outdoor grilling is one of the most popular ways to cook food, but when used improperly can cause harm. "Complacency is the root of most barbecue accidents or fires," said Master Sgt. Thomas Gervais, 8th Civil Engineer

  • AAFES Senior Enlisted Advisor talks to Kunsan Airmen

    The top Army and Air Force Exchange Services enlisted leader met with Wolf Pack Airmen during a discussion forum June 8 to talk about the services and supoprt AAFES provides to them.Chief Master Sgt. Jeffry D. Helm, AAFES senior enlisted advisor, talked to Airmen about numerous concerns regarding

  • Kadena airfield operations flight 'tops in AF'

    There's never a dull day for the 18th Operations Support Squadron's airfield operations flight. The flight responsible for providing air traffic control, radar approach control and airfield management operations at one of the busiest airfields in the Air Force was recently recognized as the best in

  • Test cell Airmen prep F-16 engines for flight

    An F-16 engine testing facility called the "Hush House" is anything but what its name implies. Outside the soundproof structure, the decibels from roaring engines are hardly detectable. However, inside jet engines run at ear-splitting full-volume afterburner, as 35th Maintenance Squadron aerospace

  • Social media: an amplifier for the good, the bad - and the ugly

    In early May, an internet video showing two Iraqi children being mocked by a soldier from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, drew news media attention and prompted an ongoing investigation by the Army."Military members have to understand the connection between what they do online and what they do in the real

  • Social media offers new avenues for info

    In April, the Air Force opened up some web sites that have not been available on government networks for quite a while, if ever. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more are now available to people via the base computer network.While the Airmen of the 18th Wing Public Affairs Office constantly work to

  • U.S., Bangladesh prepare to kick off Pacific Angel mission

    More than 55 U.S. military personnel from the active, Guard and Reserve components arrived here June 10 to begin preparation for the third iteration of Operation Pacific Angel, a U.S. and Bangladesh humanitarian operation scheduled here through June 16. Operation Pacific Angel is a joint and

  • Airmen perform heroic actions during plane crash

    Two Airmen stationed here jumped into action and put themselves in harm's way June 1 while rescuing survivors from a Cessna 206 plane crash. A plane that took off shortly after 5 p.m. from Merrill Field went down moments later into the side of a Fairview building, injuring four people and killing

  • Joint Attack training

    Four AH-64 Apache helicopters assigned to the 4-2 Attack Battalion, Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea, fired Hellfire missiles at targets at an air-ground range 20 miles outside of Kunsan Air Base, during a Joint Air Attack combat readiness training session, June 3. During the four day training

  • Conservation officers review base bear policy after incident

    Due to recent events on Elmendorf Air Force Base, the 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron's Natural Resource Conservation Agency is making some changes to their bear safety briefings and information for regarding human interaction with black bear on and around Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.Four girls,