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  • Exercise introduces Navy expertise to air-centric operation

    Several federal, state and local agencies from across the United States and Canada participated in Vigilant Shield '11, an exercise geared at training and evaluating tactics, techniques and procedures to ensure interoperability of Department of Defense assets in support of the president's National

  • ¿Donde está el avión perdido? Sergeant Barrera knows

    An aircraft is overdue at its scheduled landing site. It has American passengers aboard and is on a humanitarian mission to Mexico. The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center calls Mexican rescue officials for help in locating the aircraft. The problem? Neither rescue entity has someone available who

  • AFRCC assists in search for missing aircraft with four onboard

    The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here worked with Wyoming Department of Military Affairs and Fremont County Emergency Management to search for a small aircraft with a father and three of his sons on board that went missing Oct. 25.According to the Mooney M20J's flight plan, it was en route

  • Sudden passing of AFNORTH employee comes as shock to all

    A well-known and highly regarded civil servant with Air Forces Northern's Installations & Mission Support Division passed away suddenly Oct. 20.Retired Air Force Master Sgt. Prince A. Smith Jr., a former Security Forces superintendent, died of a heart attack in his home. At the time of his death, he

  • AFRCC assists Mexican RCC in locating fatal plane wreckage

    In a sad turn of events that resulted in the death of four Americans, the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here assisted the Government of Mexico during a search for a small aircraft that had gone missing near the U.S.- Mexico border Friday.The Beechcraft plane, carrying members of the "Flying

  • NORAD exercise planned for Washington, D.C.

    The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 11-01 beginning Wednesday in the National Capital Region, Washington, D.C.The exercise is comprised of a series of training flights held

  • NORAD deputy visits CONR, Canadians

    The last time he was here, he was the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region deputy commander, construction of the Killey Center for Homeland Operations was still on the drawing board, and Hurricane Katrina relief operations were in full swing.How time and circumstances

  • 601st AOC earns AF-level award for Haiti relief operations

    Forces from the 601st Air & Space Operations Center here earned the highest praise from the Air Force Chief of Staff for their contributions to Haiti after the island nation was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake Jan. 12, 2010.Air Forces Northern's 601st Air Mobility Team, made up of airlift

  • Aviation Coordination Command draws down at Tyndall

    Operations at the Aviation Coordination Command established at the 601st Air and Space Operations Center to support the Deepwater Horizon cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico have wrapped up, according to 601st AOC officials."We have drawn down operations completely as of today," said Lt. Col. Mark