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  • USAF AMMOS graduates 24th class, 300th student

    The United States Air Force Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Officer School achieved a significant milestone, graduating its 300th student since the school opened its doors in 2002 June 22. Class 12A is the 24th class to graduate from the USAF AMMOS Combat Support Course. The graduates, all from

  • Voting assistance available for absentee voters

    Elections have begun and the Federal Voting Assistance Program here has geared up to help military and U.S. citizens to register to vote.The FVAP can help people request their ballots for absentee voting in their states' primaries during the next few months and the general election Nov. 6.The

  • Midway White III

    Midway White III is designed to quantify and improve cave characterization, standardize attack planning processes, and increase weapons employment consistency and lethality.

  • AF discontinues ITDY dependent travel, transportation allowances

    Air Force officials announced a change to transportation and travel allowances for Airmen tasked with 365-day extended deployments, commonly referred to as an indeterminate TDY. Effective July 1, the Air Force will no longer refer to a 365-day extended deployment as an ITDY since there are

  • Severing the chain reactions that can lead to suicide

    Those last few words of the argument ring in your head as you pour another drink. Checking Facebook makes everything worse, and the more you drink the worse your thoughts become - and the worse your judgment about the situation gets.Eventually, the growing voice inside your head telling you to end

  • Nellis’ Freedom Fest has small town feel, huge city sound

    Three-year-old Landen Birzer has never missed a Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Fourth of July Celebration. One of his first words was "Wow!" during last year's show. This year's show will feature Birzer's "ooh's and aaah's, as well as an opening 8 p.m. Naturalization Ceremony for three active duty

  • Nellis medical center graduates first resident class

    The 99th Medical Group Family Medicine Residency Program is graduating its first class today.The FMR graduation ceremony marks the end of the residents' three-years of post-doctoral, supervised practice, signifying the six graduating doctors met the rigorous standards required for them to practice

  • Nellis lights the way for energy conservation

    Nellis Air Force Base, in a continuing effort to promote energy efficiency, is replacing the lighting in several aircraft hangars with more efficient fixtures."The hangar project was identified in a 2010 energy audit funded by Air Combat Command," said Jeff Blazi, Nellis Energy Manager. The 2010

  • Search and recovery continues for Creech AFB Airman at Lake Mead

    Local authorities continue to perform search and recovery operations for 28 year-old Staff Sergeant Antonio Tucker, a remotely piloted aircraft crew chief for the 432d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here who disappeared after leaving his rental boat on June 23. The operation changed from search and

  • Meeting new people at Paintball

    Senior Airman Daniel Middaugh, Nellis Air Force Base honor guard trainer, plays paintball as part of the Nellis Air Force Base chapel's outreach program event held June 8, 2012. The chapel outreach program affords Airmen opportunities to get out and meet new people. This event had more than 100

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