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Defense schools work to raise awareness, prevent suicides

July 9, 2009

WASHINGTON: Officials from Defense Department schools are taking on the tough topic of suicide to prevent what is a leading...

NASA research to help aircraft avoid ocean storms, turbulence

July 8, 2009

WASHINGTON: NASA officials here are funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms...

Air mobility, tanker support key elements of Global Thunder

July 8, 2009

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE: Air Mobility Command airlift and tanker support were key contributors to Exercise Global Thunder 2009 that...

Airmen train with Army to become JTACs

July 7, 2009

HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii: Rain and mud may not have been forecasted for radio operators, maintainers and drivers' training...

Twelve-nation consortium ready for first C-17

July 2, 2009

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: Officials of the12-nation Strategic Airlift Capability, or SAC, consortium will celebrate the activation of the operational...

Airmen in Europe test threat responses

June 30, 2009

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: Airmen from six U.S. Air Forces in Europe bases competed in the 2009 USAFE Chemical, Biological,...

Airpower: Predator employs Hellfire missile

June 30, 2009

SOUTHWEST ASIA: Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during...

Tinker Airmen make mark in ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

June 29, 2009

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE: Airmen of the 552nd Air Control Wing's E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System here had a...

Airborne Early Warning Commanders Conference attracts worldwide audience

June 29, 2009

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE: Commanders from around the world gathered for the Executive Multinational Airborne Early Warning Commanders' Conference June...

Bomber crews improve mission skills at Northern Edge 2009

June 26, 2009

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska: The 96th Bomb Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., deployed here for exercise Northern...