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  • Nellis selected to host new joint military working dog training program

    Air Force leadership selected Nellis Air Force Base as the location of a new joint military working dog training program in late November. The leadership made their decision after Nellis graduated its beta test class of 15 security forces dog handlers and their military working dogs Nov. 9. This

  • Spice use incompatible with military mission

    Nellis and Creech are focal points of the testing and training of tactics for the Air Force due to the exercises conducted on the Nevada Test and Training Range. These unique missions require Airmen who are prepared, both mentally and physically, to take on the challenge of not only training for

  • Trees for Troops distributed at Nellis

    For the fifth year in a row, Nellis and Creech Airmen gathered Dec. 10 at the base chapel at the crack of dawn to unload a shipment of more than 650 Christmas trees--just a fraction of the more than 55,000 trees that were shipped to military bases nationwide and to bases in the Middle East.In

  • Nellis rescue pilot retires after career in four branches of service

    The term most people might use to describe Major Yonel "Yogi" Dorelis' career is "one-of-a-kind." However, Major Dorelis doesn't see it that way. Despite retiring Dec. 10 after a highly unorthodox, 28-year long military career in which he served in all four U.S. armed services, spent over a decade

  • Air Force rolls out new travel card program

    The Air Force is rolling out a new travel card program that will change the way Airmen finance their travel. The new Controlled Spend Account cards have already been issued to a few members and the transition will be complete in spring 2011. There are four primary differences between the Government

  • Weapons School students apply skills during graduation exercise

    The U.S. Air Force Weapons School completed its biannual two-week graduation exercise Dec. 9. The mission employment phase exercise is the final part of the six-month Weapons School Graduate Course and it provides an opportunity for the students to showcase their newly-acquired skills."The Air Force

  • 2010 Combined Federal Campaign comes to a close

    The Combined Federal Campaign ends Wednesday, Dec. 15. The CFC is an opportunity for military and civilian government employees to donate charity. More than 25,000 charities are included in the campaign. There is no limit, minimum or maximum, to the amount of money that an individual can donate.For

  • Helicopter pilot receives Cheney Award

    An HH-60G helicopter pilot received the Cheney Award from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz here Oct. 15 for the rescue of two critically injured Marines in Helmand Valley, Afghanistan. Maj. John G. Mangan, the assistant director of operations for the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air

  • Award-winning chapel staff in place at Nellis

    As you look around the Nellis Air Force Base chapel facilities, you will notice some drastic changes: a new fellowship area is under construction and four new chaplains and two new chaplain assistants have arrived since June. The new Wing Chaplain, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Walter Bean, who arrived in

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