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  • Hickam Airman receives Bronze Star with Valor

    The military awarded an Airman its eighth highest honor during a Sept. 13 ceremony at the Aloha Conference Center. Special Agent Gregory Carmack, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, was presented The Bronze Star with Valor as his wife, Natalie, son, Joshua, and daughter, Melissa, watched

  • AIrfield inspection reveals excellence

    Eielson Airmen recently established themselves as being among the best in the Air Force during the 2007 Air Traffic System Evaluation Program and the Air Force Weather Standardization and Evaluation Program inspection. According to Capt. Jeffery Byman, 354th Operations Support Squadron Airfield

  • 'Jeopardy!' honors AF's 60th birthday

    The answer is "Video clues taped at Kadena Air Base." The question, Alex, is what will be featured on the Sept. 27 episode of the long-running game show "Jeopardy!" The show will honor the Air Force's 60th anniversary with video clues and an Air Force questions panel which will highlight current Air

  • Airmen make AFSO 21 successful

    The Air Force's top smart operations leader said Airmen and their ideas are critical to the success of the service's efforts to improve efficiency during a visit here Sept. 17. "Individual Airmen are incredibly important to the success of AFSO 21, said Dr. Ronald Ritter, special assistant to the

  • Inert weapons dropped for first time in Koa Lightning exercise

    The 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron here went "wheels up" for exercise Koa Lightning September 16 and 17. But this exercise is a little different than previous Koa Lightning's. For the first time, bomber aircrews get to drop ordnance. "Dropping inert munitions over the bombing range in Hawaii is a

  • "I am an Airman" Gen. Hester speaks at AF Birthday Ball

    General Paul V. Hester Commander, Pacific Air Forces Listen to Gen Hester's Speech "I Am An Airman" (audio file)I Am An Airman General Hester: In the early 1990s Lynda and I were assigned to Kadena Air Force Base in Japan. You will remember, those who have lived in the Pacific before, we were

  • Commemorating the Air Force's 60th Birthday

    Sixty years ago--President Harry Truman set the wheels in motion that directed the establishment of the United States Air Force. It was a move that broke tradition. It was move that changed military culture. And, it was a move that put airpower in its proper place--as the preeminent purveyor of the