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  • Agreement signed for integrated defense of Alaska

    Lt. Gen. Dana Atkins, Commander, Joint Task Force Alaska (JTF-AK), and Rear Adm. Gene Brooks, Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard District, signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday to facilitate coordination of the missions under the auspices of JTF-AK with those performed by U.S. Coast Guard

  • AMS captain receives Bronze Star

    A captain from the 732nd Air Mobility Squadron here received a Bronze Star Medal during a ceremony June 22. Capt. Karen Rupp, aerial port operations officer for the 732nd AMS, earned the medal for her service as commander of the 424th Medium Truck Detachment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  • Marines, Airmen, fuel up exercise Northern Edge

    Pacific Command's Exercise Northern Edge 2009 is allowing more than 200 aircraft the opportunity to train in nearly 120,000 square miles of airspace above interior Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska June 15-26. With the numerous aircraft in the air and massive amounts of mileage to cover during the

  • New Zealand proves fitting host for multilateral talks

    "With your basket, and with my basket, together we will feed everyone." This traditional New Zealand saying, translated into English from the Maori language, was referenced by Air Commodore Gavin Howse during the opening seminar of the Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium and Senior Enlisted Leadership

  • Asia-Pacific nations meet to discuss relief operations

    Representatives from nations throughout the Asia-Pacific region are meeting here to discuss multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations June 23-27. The talks are part of the 2009 Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium, co-hosted this year by the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the

  • AMC crew rounded up and ready to go

    The Rodeo team here has been rounded up, and they are ready to go. About 35 Arctic Warriors will compete in the Air Mobility Command Rodeo at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 18 to 25. Since 1962 the AMC Rodeo has been held to help improve the skills of air mobility professionals. The competition

  • Trouble on the ground mandates safety program

    An increase in runway incursions mandates all airfield drivers here to receive a briefing in preventing further flightline mishaps by September. "It's been noted that in 2008 there has been an increase of 49 percent in runway incursion rates caused by vehicles or pedestrians," said Tech. Sgt. Don

  • 'Vampire Bats' take to skies of Alaska

    Northern Edge 2009 is a joint training exercise connecting approximately 9,000 servicemembers from throughout the country and throughout the world, and involving more than 200 aircraft. Some of those service members and aircraft came from as far away as Kadena Air Force Base, Japan. Pilots and