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  • Joint services prep Marines for Afghan deployment

    U.S. Joint Forces Command's joint fires experts helped train Marine battalion and regimental staffs preparing to deploy to Afghanistan during an exercise here.The recently completed Spartan Resolve exercise, conducted by the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, USJFCOM's Joint Fires

  • Underdog LRS bests Medical Group for base softball title

    The 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron completed their "Cinderella" run Aug. 2, winning the base intramural softball championship.The team had to come from behind twice against the 96th Medical Group to claim the title. In the double-elimination style tournament, LRS had to beat MDG in a

  • Major learns to get back up after fall

    Waking up alone, face down and bleeding, on the sun-baked granite rock after falling face-first 50 feet from the top of a mountain - that's where Air Force Academy Cadet David Garay found himself June 2, 1997, only one day after his 19th birthday.Garay, now a major, lived through the fall and

  • YoAFF ends, base initiatives continue

    Even though the Air Force's Year of the Air Force Family campaign ended July 31, base agencies said they will continue to work together to create the best support to military and civilian families here."Success was clearly defined by our participants," said Lisa Splinter, the installation's point of

  • Child care fees change to maintain quality services

    The Defense Department is adjusting its child care fees, adding categories for its highest income earners, to compensate for six years without fee range increases, Pentagon officials announced July 30.The department's Military and Community Family Policy Office has added three categories to the top

  • Library closes book on successful summer program

    Mission accomplished: Eight weeks, 311 young warriors, 30 programs and...countless books. Operation Read, a military themed summer reading program at the base library, concluded July 30. This year's military theme highlighted the "Year of the Air Force Family" and allowed military children to