FEATURES

  • Shop smart, shop free at Airman's Attic

    Among couches, coffee tables, racks of clothing, laundry baskets, and shelves stacked with dishes and household appliances, reigns an atmosphere of excitement: Airmen and dependants are selecting free goods to take home. Such is the normal mood at the Airman's Attic, a volunteer organization

  • U.S. Air Force Weapons School: Producing premier weapons officers since 1949

    Before the Aggressor aircraft attacked their first "blue team," before the Thunderbirds amazed audiences across the nation, before the "blue team" got their first kill on the "red team" in Red Flag operations, back when Nellis Air Force Base was still Las Vegas Air Force Base, there was the U.S. Air

  • One-of-a-kind mission, serving a one-of-a-kind force

    Throughout the Air Force's illustrious history, the self-sustained ability to provide recovery and assistance operations to downed aircrew and allies located behind enemy lines has always been an integral element in maintaining a superior air and space power. The men and women of the 66th Rescue

  • Pilots bid adieu to Thunderbird duty

    "Bittersweet." It was a word that crossed the lips of two Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds pilots as they described their feelings about leaving the unit. Majors Ed Casey and Nicole Malachowski performed the last show of their two-year tours as pilots for the Thunderbirds at

  • COMMENTARY - Commander for a day

    For the past eight months, I've woken up at the same time every day knowing I go to work with a set schedule as a family practice clinic medical technician. My workday is extended on rare occasions when I have patients who require additional attention. But on Nov. 15 I stepped out of my comfort zone

  • Cancer: One Airman’s struggle for life

    "God works in mysterious ways... if I wouldn't have been trying to get a breast augmentation, I would have never found out that I had breast cancer," said Tech. Sgt. Marsha Granger, a vehicle maintenance and analyst technician with the 820th RED HORSE, and breast cancer survivor. It's been one year

  • Fifty years in a blink of an eye

    "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e. e. Cummings "What will I do next? I've got rehearsals with Chippendales ... no... I'm going to be a greeter at the commissary ... no ... I have a lot of home projects that I let go for many years and I'm going to catch up on them. I was

  • Airman by day, gladiator by night

    "Do something amazing," says the Air Force, and so the Airmen do - from putting their uniform on in service for their country to helping at a homeless shelter on their time off. Every once in a while, one of them gets to do not only something amazing, but something quite out of the ordinary. Senior

  • Commentary - Attitude of gratitude

    As I babysat my friend's 2-year-old daughter, quite a restless little peanut, we read a whole library of colorful, educational toddler books. One in particular caught my attention -- a book about complaining. The story was about a girl who was never happy, causing her parents to worry and her

  • Famed astronaut traces steps back to Air Force

    An aged man dressed in a blue flight suit standing behind a wooden lectern stared intently at the crowd gathered in front of him. His warm smile welcomed the attention as he knows his aviation story is about to be heard. It was 60 years ago when Buzz Aldrin, whose name would later be in history