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  • The history of Andersen’s Rota Walk

    In a couple of weeks Andersenites will make the annual Yuletide pilgrimage known as Rota Walk, one of our base's most beloved traditions. This evening stroll is not just good for the heart, but for the spirit as well, since the denizens of Rota Drive will be going all out to provide a Christmas

  • Protect yourself from phishing scams

    Email provides a convenient and powerful communications tool that few in today's fast paced world can live without. Unfortunately, it also provides scammers with an easy means for luring information from unsuspecting victims. This form of Internet fraud is called phishing. The term, pronounced

  • Wireless security on your home network

    Most of us probably remember when owning a computer was a luxury rather than a necessity. A decade or so ago only the lucky and the wealthy had a personal computer in their home and a network was something reserved for large corporations. In today's modern household everyone has to have his own

  • Practicing good operations security at home, online

    The term operations security (OPSEC) is commonly used in the Air Force. What does that mean to service members and their families? How can they apply good OPSEC practices at home and when online? The goal of the OPSEC program is to keep potential adversaries from discovering our critical

  • Wolf Pack does its part during peninsula combat employment exercise

    Staff meetings and conference calls are the norm for Thursdays at many fighter wings throughout the Air Force. But for leadership here, an exercise inject from higher command, requiring the wing to prepare for imminent hostilities is just another day at the office, even when it comes during a

  • From Russian tanks to Air Force trombones

    Staff Sgt. Vladimir Tchekan's life reads like a real-life movie script. After all, he's dodged tanks, was a musician in a popular rock band and even helped orphans in Thailand. Sergeant Tchekan isn't a movie star, but he is living the American dream - Air Force style. Born and raised in Moscow,

  • Honoring our Heritage; Airman returns 65 years after attack

    After 65 years, an American Airman returns to Oahu, Hawaii, to remember Dec 7, 1941, and share his story with his family. Assigned at what was then Bellows Army Air Field in September 1941, Private Raymond D. Stehle helped train new recruits in the U.S. Army Air Corps. "I was there to train new

  • Family reunites after Katrina’s devastation

    From one tragedy comes a story of encouragement, a story of reunion and renewal, which inspires many of us to hold fast to ideas of hope in even the most desperate of times. This story comes from a young girl who, with the help of her parents, dreams to share her story with others. Gabrielle Moore,

  • Show ‘em ‘The Lights’

    Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Pelfrey makes up in character anything he may be missing in his 5-foot-4-inch stature, as he demonstrated with his recent speech during a senior NCO induction ceremony here. With an eastern Tennessee twang that northerners may have to work at to understand, Chief Pelfrey

  • 18 AES provides in-flight patient care

    Most hospitals have winged "angels of mercy." At the 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, these "angels" work on winged hospitals. Doctors, flight nurses and aeromedical technicians are among the 18th AES members transporting and treating patients throughout the Pacific region. "We are capable of