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  • Key Spouse Program bridges communications

    While it's inherent for military members and their families to expect the unexpected - short-notice deployments, permanent change of station orders, new missions, new people, new places - it doesn't mean it's always comfortable or easy to manage.To help prepare its members for such events, Air

  • F-4 Phantom Jet Moved to Permanent Display at Eastern Air Defense Sector

    A restored version of one the U.S. Air Force's most renowned combat planes is now on permanent display outside the Eastern Air Defense Sector. Perched on a pedestal 15 feet above a small pond at the facility's southwest edge, the imposing 47-year-old F-4 Phantom jet demands attention. "The elevated

  • 1 AF-AFNORTH hosts military, local medical leaders

    Col. (Dr.) Robert Todaro, Command Surgeon, First Air Force - Air Forces Northern hosted an AFNORTH Medical Networking Meeting November 10 with local community medical leaders to help foster relationships and share the Tyndall story and Air Forces Northern mission.Along with members of his staff,

  • 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