• Team effort results in successful exercise

    Airmen participating in the Major Accident Response Exercise were faced with a weapons transport that had come under enemy fire, resulting in injured casualties, a contamination spill and an ignited B-61 missile. Firefighters, security forces, medical, explosive ordinance and munitions personnel all

  • Are you "dental-ready?"

    Part of the Whiteman Dental Clinic's mission is to ensure servicemembers are "dental-ready" before deployment or a tour overseas. With five dentists, 19 enlisted technicians and two civilians on staff, they are ready to serve. According to Master Sgt. Steve Winslow, NCO in charge Dental Operations

  • Whiteman members to be honored at SNCO induction ceremony

    Thirty-eight technical and master sergeants will be inducted into the senior noncommissioned officer tier during a ceremony at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Mission's End Club here. The ceremony recognizes technical sergeants who have displayed the potential for assuming the next higher enlisted grade and

  • 442nd Airmen promoted in September

    Seventeen 442nd Fighter Wing members were promoted in the month of September. They are: Airman Matthew Nall 442nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Senior Airman Jesse Farris 442nd AMXS Joshua Giliberto 442nd Maintenance Squadron Sarah Knauff 442nd AMXS Kirk Simon 442nd Logistics Readiness Squadron

  • The spirit of volunteerism

    My family recently took a vacation in Wisconsin. We finally settled in the Wild Rivers Country of the Northwoods in a little town called Florence. On our drive up U.S. 51 my wife and I noticed a lot of tall white pines on both sides of the road. It was unusual in the sense that the trees were

  • ACC commander launches IGNITE Campaign

    ACC, your command is getting ready to fundamentally change the way we do business - and you are critical to its success! The world is fast accelerating into a digital age breaking down longstanding linear processes that served the modern western world and our Air Force so well. Technology and

  • 442nd Fighter Wing: Full-time force with part-time citizen Airmen

    Twenty years ago, the Air Force Reserve served the role of a strategic force held in reserve, ready to take over domestic active-duty Air Force functions in the time of a national crisis. Since the first Gulf War in 1991 however, this paradigm has changed drastically. Today, the Air Force Reserve,

  • 509th firefighters bring the heat

    Several enlisted and civilian firefighters participated in the simulated aircraft fire to keep their qualifications and skills up to date. The exercise is conducted once a year and firefighters are put into several different scenarios where they are forced to react quickly and accurately.See the