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The Veterans Memorial Plazas annual Memorial Day ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Monday at 5191 Willing St., Milton, in remembrance of the brave men and women who gave their lives while serving our country. The plazas ceremony activities are as follows: Introductions: Don Salter, Santa Rosa County Veterans Memorial Foundation Presentation of the colors: Milton High School ROTC Invocation: Retired U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Joe Orren National anthem: Oaklee Riley, Milton High School grad...

18 MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. - U.S. Air Force staff and faculty assigned to the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee learned emergency response skills, mid-May, to help ensure safe and prepared classrooms as on-campus attendance increases. U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Kirk Lewellyn and Master Sgt. John Champion, training managers assigned to the 134th Security Forces Squadron, instructed TEC’s Airmen in life-saving skills. The security for...

By Master Sgt. Mike Smith, I.G. Brown Training and Education Center / Published May 11, 2021 Scrapbooks of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown, the first Director of the Air National Guard, maintained from 1962 to 1974, contain select correspondence, speeches, and images. Stored at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee, they hold hundreds of documents. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith) Air Force Brig. Gen. I.G. Brown presents th...

By Senior Airman Lawrence Sena, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs / Published May 06, 2021 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daschia Lawrence, 92nd Healthcare Operation Squadron medical technician, prepares equipment for a COVID-19 vaccine administration at the Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 27, 2021. The total-force members include the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard from 24 bases across the co...

Michigan ANG “carries the torch” for Air Force communication networks in Europe Photo By Staff Sgt. Bethany Rizor | Members of the 110th Wing (pictured from left to right), Senior Airman Donovan Wentworth, 110th Communications Flight; Staff Sgt. Jennifer Rumsey, Tech. Sgt. Justin Oosterbaan, Lt. Col. Daniel Fawcett, Tech. Sgt. Robert Zellers, Master Sgt. Brian Leonard, Tech. Sgt. Lewis Banks, Staff Sgt. Robert Rainone, 217th Air Component Operations Squadron and Staf...

By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 1, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WIESBADEN, Germany — Some U.S. military personnel and their families used the extra time at home during more than a year of coronavirus restrictions to hit the books. This year, 1,360 students recei...

By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 1, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WIESBADEN, Germany – Some U.S. military personnel and their families used the extra time at home during more than a year of coronavirus restrictions to hit the books. This year, 1,360 students recei...

10 This isn’t your father’s rapid runway repair. Eight Airmen from the 169th Civil Engineer Squadron (169CES) joined Pacific Air Forces and U.S. Navy engineers to participate in an Expedient and Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair (E-ADR) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at McEntire Joint National Guard Base (JNGB), South Carolina April 21-28, 2021. The demonstration simulated the rapid repair of a battle damaged runway. Swamp Fox engineers were joined by engineers...

Date Time JBER debuts innovation project during Polar Force 21-5 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Airmen implemented innovation project URSUS to speed up the deployment process during exercise Polar Force 21-5, March 29 through April 2. The team, which was led by Capt. Jamey Shuls, 773rd Logistics Readiness Squadron director of operations, designed and conceptualized URSUS in partnership with the air staff’s Tesseract innovation team and The collaboration between JB Elmendorf-Richardson Airme...

19 MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. -- Fifteen staff and faculty assigned to the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee recently completed a 60-day fitness challenge to enhance their wellness and prepare for approaching U.S. Air Force physical fitness assessments. “The objective was two-fold: to help participants kick start a complete and healthy wellness transformation and to help prepare our members physically for the PT test projected to resum...