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Air Force Reservists from the 940th Civil Engineer Squadron, from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., (from left to right) Master Sgt. Frank Stroup, Staff Sgt. Tatiana Ignacio-Espejo, Master Sgt. Donald Claunch, Staff Sgt. Jason Sanchez, and Master Sgt. Daniel Fisher, hand out gifts, school supplies, toys and more to children at a school in La Ceiba, Honduras during an official visit March 18, 2006. 940 CES is part of Combined Joint Task Force New Horizons 2006 in Honduras, and is building a new school for these children. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Rudolph Bartley)

May 5, 2006

940th CE builds Honduran school

Air Reserve Technician, Staff Sgt. Pete Gibson, 940th Maintenance Squadron Structural Maintenance technician, and his son Tommy, 6, work together to install an air lock on a KC-135T panel at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. Tommy came to work with his dad as part of the Bring your Daughters and Sons to Work Day April 27, 2006. "He [Tommy] always asks me questions about what I did at work and I thought it would be good for him to see what I do," Sergeant Gibson said. "He's very inquisitive and remembers what he sees."

April 27, 2006

Bring your daughters and sons to work

Air Force Reservist Staff Sgt. Timothy Trollope, 940th Maintenance Squadron structural maintenance technician, plays softball at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey while deployed as part of the 385th Air Expeditionary Group Dec. 11, 2005. (U.S. Air Force Photo by 1st Lt. Michael Wimberly)

March 30, 2006

Safety tips for the playing field

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Baseball and softball season is starting again, along with many other sports. Here are some tips to keep safe on the field: • Use breakaway bases, many players get injured while sliding into bases. The number of these mishaps could be significantly lowered by installing breakaway bases on playing fields. A breakaway base is snapped onto grommets

March 30, 2006

Sexual harassment not tolerated

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when any of the following situations occur: • Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly as a term or condition of a person’s job, pay, or career. •

Civilian employers saw this view April 2, 2005 from a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling a KC-10A Extender above the Pacific Ocean west of San Francisco. The 940th Air Refueling Wing conducts orientation flights and other outreach programs to help inform civilian employers about the mission their employees support. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brooke Mayberry)

March 30, 2006

April News Briefs

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — News briefs is a list of unit events and information.Civilian bosses to see air refueling The 940th Air Refueling Wing is planning a employer orientation flight in June. This flight will give about 50 civilian employers an up-close-and-personal-view of the unit’s air refueling mission. Traditional Reservists assigned to Beale Air Force Base will

3/21/2006 - LOS GIRASOLES, Honduras -- Air Force Reservists and Honduran soldiers greet local children near the worksite where the 940th Civil Engineer Squadron is building a school here. New Horizons 2006-Honduras is a joint training exercise between the U.S. military and the Honduran government that will improve the quality of life for the local people. When the exercise concludes in May, the Joint Task Force here will have constructed a maternity clinic, four schools and provided free medical care at 14 different locations in and around La Ceiba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. William A. Smith William, Jr.)

March 30, 2006

Joint task force takes first steps to securing future

LA CEIBA, Honduras (AFPN) — Civil Engineers from the 940th Air Refueling Wing are working here as part of a four-month long joint training exercise between the U.S. military and Honduran government, dubbed Operation New Horizons 2006. Joint Task Force, or JTF, Asegurar el Futuro, or “Securing the Future,” conducted the New Horizons mission and provides engineer, medical and

Master Sgt. Arnie Cervantes, crew chief, 940th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, tests the communication flight controls on the ground during an exercise March 4 at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brynna Bryant)

March 30, 2006

Exercise, Exercise, Exercise!

Capt. Heidi K. Palmer, 30, an Air Force Reservist assigned to the 940th Civil Engineer Squadron, died March 15 in a traffic accident while on duty in Honduras. (U.S. Air Force Courtesy Photo)

March 29, 2006

Beale Reservist killed in Honduras traffic accident

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Airmen here are mourning the loss of Capt. Heidi K. Palmer, 30, an Air Force Reservist assigned to the 940th Civil Engineer Squadron, who died March 15 in a traffic accident while on duty in Honduras. The minivan in which she was traveling was struck head-on by a heavy truck, instantly killing Capt. Palmer. Another Airman in the minivan was also

March 17, 2006

Beale's High Flyer Warrior Spotlight

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A 940th Air Refueling Wing Reservist was recognized in the base newspaper's Warrior Spotlight for the first time in January.The High Flyer, Beale Air Force Base's newspaper, recognizes a different Team Beale warrior each week.  Staff Sgt. Tatiana Ignacio-Espejo, 940th Civil Engineering Squadron engineering assistant, is the first 940th member to be

U.S Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe Simpson (foreground), a jet engine mechanic with the 940th Air Refueling Wing, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., repairs a housing filter on a KC-135R an active duty aircraft assigned to RAF Mildenhall, England here Thursday December 22, 2005 Incirlik AB, Turkey. (U.S Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.)

March 17, 2006

940th OG, MXG successful GWOT deployment

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Troops from the 940th Operations and Maintenance Groups completed another successful deployment in support of the Global War on Terror. Nearly 120 citizen warriors, along with four 940th Air Refueling Wing KC-135T Stratotankers, performed rotating de-ployments for six weeks to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. They provided air-to-air refueling and