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  • CONR supports successful Space Shuttle launch

    The Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region (CONR) and Air Forces Northern provided crucial airspace control and manning support to the successful launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis today.CONR ensured airspace sovereignty by enforcing the Federal Aviation Administration's

  • Aviator trapped in trees rescued

    The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here worked with local authorities to rescue an individual who crashed his glider near Altoona, Pa., Sunday afternoon."After the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system picked up the pilot's 406 personal locator beacon signal, we tried to contact

  • AFNORTH readies for cyber inspection

    Just as failure is not an option when it comes to 1st Air Force's homeland defense mission, neither is it an option when it comes to the upcoming Command Cyber Readiness Inspection May 17-21."This inspection is going to have a lot more teeth than previous ones, along the intensity lines of an

  • Air Forces Northern to support oil containment efforts

    At the request of U.S. Northern Command, and to assist the U.S. Coast Guard's efforts to contain the oil spill in the western Gulf of Mexico, Air Forces Northern is providing units to help disperse the spill and mitigate its impacts when it makes its way toward the shoreline.Under the command of the

  • 148th Fighter Wing gets new wings

    Fighter pilot Lt. Col. Reed Bowman was all smiles when the first F-16 Block 50 landed at the Duluth Air National Guard (ANG) Base April 27, 2010."You don't believe it till they're sitting on the ramp in front of you and you're ready to start work on them and we're there today," said Bowman, 148th

  • As mother battles cancer, son finds comfort with Air Force

    Ask a young child what he wants to be when he grows up, and you usually get responses like a teacher, a police officer, a fire fighter, a doctor, or even a pilot. But when a child responds with, 'I want to grow up with my mom at my side,' you know he is a child whose family bonds grow extremely

  • Air defense exercise to be conducted in Savannah area May 16-20

    The Savannah Air National Guard Base will host more than 200 Soldiers and Airmen, while a U.S. Navy destroyer will patrol Georgia coastal waters, and military fighters and helicopters and federal aircraft will cruise the skies while participating in a major North American Aerospace Defense Command

  • AFRCC assists with saving 330 lives in Tennessee

    After flash flooding of a nearby river in Millington, Tenn., the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here worked with the Navy, Coast Guard and local authorities to search for people trapped in buildings at a Navy installation Saturday.A levee breach on a nearby river caused flooding of up to five

  • Airmen train for firefighting mission

    Airmen from the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve are training with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System, or MAFFS, at the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center here April 26 to 30.Air National Guard and Reserve aircrews fly MAFFS-equipped C-130 Hercules aircraft that can dispense

  • AFRCC dispatches helos to stranded hikers

    The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here worked with National Park Service personnel at Death Valley National Park rangers to rescue five stranded hikers in Mosaic Canyon, Calif., early Sunday morning.The hikers had become trapped between two cliffs and were spotted by another hiker who phoned