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  • 940th Wing's intelligence mission adds new squadron

    Almost 50 years after it was retired, a guidon bearing the unit numbers "718th " was unfurled once again at a ceremony, June 7, 2011, acknowledging the activation of the 718th Intelligence Squadron, a new Air Force Reserve Command unit at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. The new squadron is a

  • 940th Wing assumption of command

    Colonel Kevin G. Cavanagh assumed command of the 940th Wing during a ceremony here May 14.Colonel Cavanagh comes to Beale Air Force Base from the 310th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. where he served as operations group commander.Colonel Cavanagh entered the Air Force in 1985, receiving

  • Vice pinch-hits for wing commander

    "If you don't want to be at the plate with two outs and a man on third when your team is a run down, then you shouldn't be in the game. This is ninth inning stuff." The analogy refers to the many challenges Col. John Trnka, vice wing commander of 940th Wing, a Reserve tenant unit at Beale Air Force

  • 2011 air show brings base and community together

    The skies above Beale Air Force Base roared with the sound of jets and the buzzing of high performance aircraft as community members looked skyward during the 2011 Beale Air Show, April 30- May 1. The air show gave community members an opportunity to interact with Beale airmen and view unique

  • Reservists train, provide medical care during Belize exercise

    Three 940th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Reservists from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., are among more than 42 Air Force medical professionals currently deployed with the 459th Expeditionary Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Joint Base Andrews, Md., to the developing Central American country of

  • 940th AMDS dentist promotes during mission

    Capt. Vincent Chiappone, 940th Aerospace Medicine Squadron dental officer, was selected for promotion to major while on humanitarian deployment to Belize, Mar. 30. Chiappone and two other 940 AMDS Reservists, Major Michael Dailey and Staff Sgt. Karie Covey, are part of a medical team that deployed

  • Magnets illustrate the wingman concept poignantly

    Pardo's Push was an aviation maneuver carried out by Capt. Bob Pardo in order to move his wingman's badly damaged F-4 Phantom to friendly air space during the Vietnam War. Pardo, with his back-seater, 1st Lt. Steve Wayne, and wingman Capt. Earl Aman, with his back-seater, 1st Lt. Robert Houghton,

  • 713th COS joins Operation Tomodachi total force team

    While concurrently supporting combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a total integrated force of Active, Guard and Reserve Airmen are supporting humanitarian relief efforts in Japan following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan March 11.The Air