• Air Force EOD embeds with Army Units

    Doing it just because it sounds exciting has a long standing reputation as a major reason why some people lay in hospitals recovering from injuries sustained while having "fun." "It sounded like it would be exciting" is exactly how Senior Airman Aaron Skelton, 506th Explosive Ordnance Disposal

  • 57 Team Whiteman members promoted in November

    Fifty-seven Team Whiteman members were promoted during a promotion ceremony held Nov. 3 at the Mission's End. They are:Airman Alyssa Marie Highsmithesko, 509th Logistics Readiness Squadron William Robert Keeney, 509th Maintenance Group Kyle Timothy Schoon, 509th Security Forces Squadron Airman 1st

  • Whiteman DV Lounge dedicated to Maurine Achauer

    Heavy winds didn't keep more than 100 Team Whiteman and community members from attending a ceremony here dedicating the newly renovated Distinguished Visitors' Lounge in honor of long-time advocate for Airmen, Marine Achauer, during a ceremony Nov. 4 outside the Base Operations building. "Maurine

  • Air Force EOD embeds with Army Units

    When Secretary of Defense Les Aspin directed the Military Services to open more specialties and assignments to women in April of 1993, it opened a door that nine years later Angela Danene Olguin would walk through. Now, Staff Sgt. Olguin is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal journeyman with the 506th

  • 2009 Scholarships for Military Children Program now open

    November is a great time of year for many reasons - cool, crisp weather, tailgating at football games, Thanksgiving and fall colors, to name just a few. If you're a high school or college student and a child of a military family, you might want to add free college money to your list of favorite

  • Understanding secondhand smoke

    Secondhand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco smoke pollution. It is a mixture of the smoke from the burning of tobacco and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. The terms 'passive smoking' and 'involuntary smoking' describes the actual process of breathing SHS. SHS is similar