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  • Development and Training Flight gets a head start

    “Zero week” at basic military training is packed with roaring voices and intense instruction. It’s the time trainees are taught basic drill, facing movements and marching.   The 940th Air Refueling Wing’s Development and Training Flight is getting a head start. Two of Beale’s NCOs, one who is a

  • Bowling tournament strikes morale boost

    The 940th Air Refueling Wing headquarters staff won the unit’s first lunch-hour bowling competition Feb. 10th, 2017. The event was hosted at the beginning of the unit training assembly by the first sergeants of the 940th as a way to boost morale and ignite esprit de corps amongst units.  “We set up

  • Banquet recognizes Airmen’s hard work

    The 940th Air Refueling Wing held its Outstanding Airmen of the Year banquet Feb. 11, 2017, at Beale Air Force Base, California.   The OAY is an annual event, which commemorates the hard work of Airmen and civilian employees throughout the past year.   The nominees and their guests first attended a

  • Palace Chase, Front offer alternatives to active duty

    Every year, thousands of individuals raise their right hand and commit to serve in the military as either an enlisted member or an officer. While some choose to serve for many years on active duty, others might elect to leave, but that doesn’t mean they can’t continue serving.“When you make a

  • Wing welcomes new Yellow Ribbon rep

    The 940th Air Refueling Wing has its own Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program representative for the first time in nearly two years.Senior Master Sgt. Ellie Torres, superintendent of nursing services at the 940th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, started an extended active-duty tour Oct. 1 to help unit

  • ISR Airman honored during AFA Conference

    Staff Sgt. Aaron Tobler was one of the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year recognized during the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2016. Tobler is a geospatial intelligence analyst with the 50th Intelligence Squadron, Beale Air Force

  • Maj. LaPray takes command of 940th Force Support Squadron

    Maj. Alicia K. LaPray assumed command of the 940th Force Support Squadron from Lt. Col. Emily D. Dierhka during a change of command ceremony, Sept. 10, 2016 at Beale Air Force Base, California. Col. Roderick T. Grunwald, 940th Mission Support Group commander, was the presiding official and spoke

  • Beale Reserve wing stands up historic CE squadron

    Lt. Col. Bradley G. King assumed command of the 940th Civil Engineer Squadron from presiding officer Col. Roderick T. Grunwald, 940th Mission Support Group commander, on Sept. 11, 2016, at Beale Air Force Base, California. The 940 CES provides reserve emergency response and firefighting capabilities