FEATURES

  • Troops to Teachers helps Airmen serve after separation

    For many service members who are separating from the military, finding employment that utilizes prior training or skills gained while serving can be difficult.For Airmen who are honorably discharged from their military commitment and have an interest in 'serving' again as an educational instructor,

  • From Airmen to Rangers: RAC First step to coveted Ranger tab

    As one of the most physically and mentally demanding schools in the U.S. military, the U.S. Army Ranger School builds leaders through its strenuous training. For Airmen seeking to attend Ranger School, they must first make it through the Ranger Assessment Course.The RAC is a 15-day course that is

  • ‘Line-D’: Delivery service of munitions world

    With both of his hands on the steering wheel, Senior Airman Kevin Villaran, 57th Maintenance Squadron munitions line delivery crew chief, stares at the open road in front of him.Although there are no other vehicles in sight, Villaran maintains his current speed of 10 miles per hour to ensure his

  • Shedding light on patient advocates

    "Let me see what I can do for you," is the most common phrase a patient is likely to hear from Master Sgt. Bryan Anderson, 99th Medical Group patient advocate.With more than 73,000 active duty, reservist, dependents and retiree patients enrolled for care at Mike O'Callaghan Federal Medical Center,

  • FCC Provides a Home Away From Home

    Traditional child care is just that, traditional. Normally running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at most off-base day care centers or from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Child Development Centers here, in-home care is one of the options left for shift workers with little ones."Family Child Care is here to help

  • Always vigilant: Command post provides oversight, assistance

    With her eye on one of the dozens of computer monitors in the windowless command post work center, Senior Airman Sarah Myers, 99th Air Base Wing Command Post junior controller, fields one of roughly 500 phone calls she normally encounters during a 12-hour shift. As Myers picks up the phone, she

  • 99th CES ‘plumbers’ keep mission flowing

    In one of the older buildings on base, tucked away amid the hustle and bustle on the Nellis flight line, Senior Airman Cameron Smith and his wingman are alone.With his tool box in hand, he assesses the job order his team was called out to take care of - a clogged toilet. As the lights in the

  • 1st MEB, CAOC-Nellis participate in Marines Large Scale Exercise

    U.S. Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Camp Pendleton, California, trained with Combined Air Operations Center-Nellis to enhance the Marines' command and control by integrating the air component into the largest annual Marine Corps, Large Scale Exercise-14 from Aug. 8 to 14,

  • 'Getting to know you': Nellis' newest mayor discusses hopes, goals

    Col. Richard Boutwell was recently named the 99th Air Base Wing commander.Boutwell came from the Pentagon in Va., where he served as the chief of the Force Application Division, Joint Staff/J8.As the new 'Nellis Mayor' he will lead more than 12,000 assigned personnel at Nellis and Creech AFBs, and

  • Running toward better health, wellness

    When someone first hears about the 99th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Health and Wellness Center's six-week running program, they probably think of a program aimed only at improving an Airman's 1.5 mile run time. Don't be fooled by the program's title. The truth is, the Cardiorespiratory Endurance,