• Hogfest ups the ante, deals a winning hand

    Several maintenance group Airmen won awards Dec. 5, 2009, at Hogfest, the annual award ceremony hosted at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo.With only 17 award categories, and more than 500 maintainers, competition was stiff. Each squadron and flight nominated Airmen for quarterly

  • Whiteman Tax Office to open Jan. 19

    Tax season is here again. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance is available to help taxpayers prepare their 2009 Federal and State tax returns. For those Team Whiteman members who need their taxes done, the Whiteman Tax Office will be open for business beginning Jan. 19, 2010, Monday through Friday, 8

  • ALS Class 10-B graduates

    The Whiteman Airman Leadership School Class 10-B graduated 30 future supervisors during a ceremony Dec. 17, 2009, at the Mission's End.Congratulations to the following award winners and graduates:The award winners were:John L. Levitow: Staff Sgt. Matthew McClarin, 509th Munitions

  • The Power of ‘thank you’

    My coworkers and I had been working for nearly two years to develop a business plan to purchase 60, C-17s with a set budget. There were many statutory and fiscal barriers to achieving the team's goal of buying the aircraft. It was an incredible undertaking that required long hours, weekend work and

  • Service, Sacrifice

    My dad served in the U.S. Air Force during and after Vietnam. My grandfather served in the Navy during World War II, each of them had some amazing stories of what they had done to serve our nation. My dad was a weapons system operator on F-111s and F-4s. As a kid, I had read many of my dad's

  • B-2: Calling Whiteman home for 16 years

    It emerges above the tree line with a quiet rumble - a slender, dark figure rising into the twilight of a frigid Missouri evening. The thin grey line grows into the shape of a giant wedge as the craft banks right, on course to destroy. The craft levels out and disappears into the clear, blue evening

  • Whiteman Airman attributes success to leadership, family

    Editor's note: "From the Frontline" is a weekly column highlighting currently deployed Team Whiteman members, or those who have recently returned from deployment. This week's deployed member is Senior Airman Steven Edwards.Whiteman Airman Steven Edwards is currently deployed to the 386th

  • 76 Whiteman members earn degree

    Congratulations are in order for seventy-six base members who recently received their degrees from the Community College of the Air Force, Park University and Webster University. The following Whiteman members graduated this fall:Community College of the Air ForceDaniel Abrams, Avionics Systems

  • Whiteman wins five awards - Best in ACC

    The Air Combat Command A1 annual awards, announced Dec. 3, included several winners from the 509th Force Support Squadron here.FSS garnered three team awards to include: Club of the Year, Fitness and Sports Program of the Year and Resource Management Program of the Year. Additionally, two members

  • Military spouses gain the right to choose legal residency

    On Nov. 11, 2009, President Barack Obama signed legislation giving military spouses the same right enjoyed by service members of picking their state of legal residence. The Military Spouses Residency Relief Act would affect issues ranging from driver's licenses and vehicle registration, to voting