• 61 members of Team Whiteman selected for promotion

    The Air Force has selected 5,604 tech. sgts. for promotion to master sgt. Sixty-one members of Team Whiteman are included in that number. Congratulations on your selection for promotion. 509th Medical Group Louis DeSomma and Shane Lacaillade 509th Bomb Wing Raul Betancourt, Richard Clark, Mark

  • Safety is Stupid

    Ours is an extremely bright corps of dedicated Airmen, by any measure among the most educated military forces on earth. One of the hallmarks of intelligence, you would think, is the ability to keep yourself from dying. Yet year after year, unfortunate Airmen are needlessly lost to vehicle mishaps,

  • Farewell, Team Whiteman

    While my time as the 509th Bomb Wing command chief comes to an end I can't help but reflect on you, our wing and the mission. The 509th BW has a proud heritage of fighting and winning and I am proud to have worn the patch of the mighty 509th twice in my career! Each and every one of you has done

  • Sidebar: Testimony of a satified Egress customer

    Editor's note: On March 22, 1982, while flying an A-10 Thunderbolt II on a two-ship training mission in the skies over Germany then 1st Lt. Jim Preston, forward deployed from R.A.F. Bentwaters, England, found out what it is like to have to use the A.C.E.S. II ejection seat. Fortunately, it was an

  • 442nd egress troops deal with A.C.E.S.

    In the early days of aviation, pilots had very few options and very little hope of surviving if they had to leave their aircraft in flight during an emergency. Typically, the outcome was fatal. Over the years, as technology developed, those chances improved as first, parachutes were developed, and

  • Surveys provide insight for Air Force Reserve leaders

    When the chief of Air Force Reserve wanted to know what is important to reservists, he borrowed Air Force research methodology to create an Internal Communication Assessment Group. The Air Force Reserve ICAG is a group of reservists completing online surveys to provide Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner

  • Force Protection is everyone's business

    Contrary to popular belief, terrorism is by no means a new concept.Traditionally a tactic of the weak, it can be dated to 1st Century A.D. with the use of assassinations. However the word "terrorism" derived from the French Revolution in the 1790s in which the government instilled a systematic state

  • More than 190 members of Team Whiteman graduate

    More than 190 members of Team Whiteman graduated from the Community College of the Air Force, State Fair Community College, Park University and Webster University. A graduation ceremony was held at the Mission's End May 11 to honor the graduates. The Graduates are: Community College of the Air