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  • Team Nellis and Creech welcome new ALS graduates

    64 Airmen graduated ALS (10-C) at the officer's club March 25. The award winners and the graduating class are below: The ALS Award Winners Are: John Levitow Award SrA David Schmidt57th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronEagle Flight Academic Award SrA Cruz Belardo57th Maintenance SquadronEagle Flight

  • Campaigns, ribbons raise awareness of issues in April

    "Hurts one... Affects all!" is the theme for April's awareness campaigns. April is designated nationally as Child Abuse Prevention Month, Alcohol Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Nellis' helping agencies are working together to get the message out. At various displays around

  • Nellis supports National Nutrition Month

    In recognition of March as National Nutrition Month, Nellis Air Force Base is providing events to educate the community about healthy eating habits. The events held throughout the month include: a cooking demonstration from the Le Cordon Bleu College of culinary arts, a kid's nutrition class at the

  • Green Flag 10-5 in progress at Nellis, Fort Irwin

    Southern Nevada and Southern California residents will see increased military aircraft activity as the Air Force hosts exercise Green Flag-West 10-05 through March 26.Missions will be flown from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., twice daily with takeoffs around 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. with missions

  • Thunderbirds ready for 57th season

    The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds" flew their acceptance show here March 11 and were approved by Gen. William M. Fraser III, commander of Air Combat Command, to start their 2010 show season."The acceptance show is the culmination of the hard work and dedication by our

  • COMACC discusses issues, priorities during visit to Nellis

    Gen. William M. Fraser III, commander of Air Combat Command, discussed ACC's priorities and focus areas with Airmen here during a visit March 10th to 12th.Topping the list of the command's priorities is taking care of Airmen."It's not the hardware or platforms making the mission happen -- it's the

  • DFAS outlines myPay changes, security enhancements

    A year after the Defense Finance and Accounting Service first launched the myPay Web-based pay account system in 2000, less than 500,000 military, military retirees, annuitants and federal civilian employees were listed as online users. Today that number has increased to approximately 3.7 million

  • USAFWC commander bans use of Spice for Nellis, Creech Airmen

    Nellis and Creech are a focal point of testing, training and tactics for the Air Force. This mission requires Airmen who are prepared, both mentally and physically, to take on the challenge of not only training for current overseas contingencies, but executing them as well. While the use of certain

  • Past, present Shooters unite at Nellis

    "Do you remember when..."That was the beginning of countless stories of flying and fighting as remembered by 55th Fighter Squadron "Shooters" alumni who joined current squadron members at a reunion in Las Vegas.Nearly 20 pilots from every decade since World War II, many of them former squadron

  • Panjshir Penguins making Afghanistan a better place

    While workers in the Steel City concentrate their efforts on building the new Consol Energy Center, two Pittsburgh natives and die-hard Penguin fans, are working to build a better Afghanistan.In the north-eastern Afghanistan province of Panjshir, U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Jason Smith, deployed from

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