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  • Red Flag-Alaska: Crew chiefs keep aircraft in flight

    Before and well after a flight, there are Airmen who take on the tremendous responsibilities of maintaining the aircraft, observing its safety, and providing pre- and post-flight maintenance. These Airmen are the crew chiefs. During Red Flag-Alaska 09-3, there are more than 100 crew chiefs working

  • Digitized C-130 lands at Hickam during test flights

    A Boeing C-130M landed here Aug. 4 while on a tour around the Pacific for an integrated systems evaluation. Having recently converted from analog to digital avionics systems, the bird and its crew spent eight days flying across international datelines and the equator to ensure all the upgraded

  • Hickam Civil Engineers deploy to Afghanistan

    Fifty-four Reservists from the 624th Civil Engineer Squadron, which falls under the 624th Regional Support Group, have been mobilized to deploy to Afghanistan for six months. This is a "partial" mobilization, meaning half the squadron is being mobilized as opposed to the entire squadron. Once in the

  • U.S., Japanese F-15 pilots train for Red Flag-Alaska

    U.S. and Japanese F-15 pilots began air-refueling training for the Red Flag-Alaska exercise in October. The day and night air-refueling training began July 27 and will continue through Aug. 7. Instructor pilots from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and Yokota Air Base, Japan, joined KC-135 teams from

  • Elmendorf SNCO earns Air Force shirt award

    Senior Master Sgt. Rita Felton, 3rd Medical Group first sergeant, was recently named the 2009 U.S. Air Force First Sergeant of the Year. At the time of her award, Sergeant Felton was the first sergeant for the 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron. "My commander, Lieutenant Colonel [Dean[ Hartman, called me

  • Timorese islanders receive 'house call'

    Four U.S. Air Force and three Royal Australian Regiment medical personnel provided basic family care support to 283 people in the tiny fishing village of Bikeli, Atauro in Timor Leste, July 22, in support of Operation Pacific Angel 09. The small group was flown to the island by the International

  • Reservists integrate with active duty to support TSP mission

    Reservists from the 302nd Fighter Squadron are assigned to the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here to support the U.S. Pacific Command commander's Theater Security Package mission in the Asia-Pacific region. Both the 302nd FS and the 525th EFS are units from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.

  • FOD awareness 'everyone's responsibility'

    It may be hard to imagine a small pebble or slivers of metal causing damage to the premier aircraft scattered about Air Force flightlines, but millions of dollars worth of cumulative damage over time to the Air Force's aircraft inventory has made senior leaders believers in foreign object