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Chief Master Sergeant Ezekiel A. Ross is the Command Chief of the 316th Wing at Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington, Maryland. In this role, he advises the commander on all enlisted force matters and on issues regarding the welfare, readiness, utilization, morale and quality of life for personnel across five wings, three headquarters, more than 80 tenant organizations, as well as 60,000 Airmen and families in the National Capital Region and around the world. The 316th Wing supports...

Madras Army Airfield served as a training facility for World War II pilots The population of Madras almost doubled with the influx of military personnel The United States involvement in World War II led to a need for combat training of Army Air Force pilots and crews. Training operations were scattered throughout most of the West in isolated regions. In January of 1943, the Army Air Force announced that the war effort would include a training base in Madras. The Air Force ordered plan...

Listen • 2:03 From left to right: Amy Biggers, Virginia Beach, VA; Nathan Ramage ofFalcon, CO; Delvano Brown of Gaithersburg, MD; Shane Brown of Colorado Springs, CO; Giahna Brown of Woodbridge, VA; Elijah Engelby, Colorado Springs, CO; Benjamin Nevoraski of Virginia Beach, VA
 
 The nearly one-year-old Space Force graduated its first seven enlistees on Thursday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. They graduated alongside more than 700 regular Airmen, reciting the...