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  • AF Reserve celebrates 67 years of service

    For many Airmen, April 14 will be just another Tuesday. But to members of the Air Force Reserve, it will be a day to reflect on how each and every one contributes to the Air Force mission.On April 14, 1948, the Army Air Corps Reserve transferred to the Air Force, officially becoming the Air Force

  • A Day at the Museum: Global Hawk: Workhorse of Recon

    The Global Hawk flies missions all around the world. One of those landed at the Museum of Aviation's Century of Flight hangar - so to speak.The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial reconnaissance system designed to capture real-time information for wartime efforts as

  • Female U-2 pilot blazes trail through society and space

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly amongst the stars? Have you ever stared into the night sky hoping to catch a glimpse of a shooting star? Could you imagine flying 70,000 ft. above the earth, gliding through the darkness completely isolated from all of civilization below?Lt. Col.

  • Members bid farewell to AMDS commander

    Lt. Col. Julie M. Clement, 940th Aerospace Medicine Squadron commander, said her goodbyes to her fellow wing members at her luncheon, Feb. 7, at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.As the 940th AMDS commander for the past four years, she's been responsible for the medical readiness of more than 1,100

  • Beale community celebrates MLK event

    Nearly 80 local residents celebrated the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend with a 1.5 mile march from Yuba City's Sutter County Courthouse to the Balanced Life Christian Center in Marysville.Participants held hands and sang songs during the march. Some walkers held handmade

  • Former Airman sentenced to 18 years in drunk-driving death tells story

    He was born into an Air Force family, moving around from Florida to Okinawa to Oklahoma. He played outdoors - climbing trees and swimming. In high school at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, he taught swimming lessons before his father, an Air Force major, retired to Shawnee, Okla."My parents were

  • Holidays are time to reach out to those who may need help

    For some, the holidays come and go crazy fast with Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's. For others it doesn't go by fast enough. They find no fun at the office holiday parties rife with games others consider to be the highlight of the party.  While

  • DOD releases 2015 military pay, compensation rates

    The Defense Department announced the 2015 military pay and compensation rates for service members Dec. 22, with most service members receiving a 1 percent increase in basic pay.The new rates for basic pay, basic allowance for housing (BAH), basic allowance for subsistence (BAS), and the cost of