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  • Dagger Point: Major Edwards shares his experience of getting shot down

    (Dagger Point is a multi-part series focusing on Air Commando history.) On April 12, 2004, Maj. Steven Edwards was the flight lead of a two-ship formation of MH-53s on a resupply mission enroute to Fallujah, Iraq. While on their way, they had to stop at a landing zone to deliver ammunition. The

  • One Air Force family's story on autism

    By now most of you have seen the awesome film footage of Jason McElwain, the 18-year-old team trainer, who was given the chance to dress out with the seniors for the basketball team’s final game. From obscurity, he went on to hit six three-pointers in the last minutes of the game. The true miracle

  • Reflections of times gone by: Women in the military

    The women of the Air Force Enlisted Village shared stories of their experiences in the military at a brown-bag luncheon held at Eglin Air Force Base March 8 as a part of their Women’s History Month observation. The group of 20 ladies shared smiles and snacks, while the women of the yesterday’s

  • Survival training tests aircrew’s mettle

     As the sun began to steadily fall from the pastel colored sky, giving way to chilly evening breezes, six drenched aircrew members grew miserable. Fatigue, hunger, dehydration, heat, cold and plain discontent seemed to be themes of combat survival training Tuesday at Grand Bay Wildlife Management

  • Air Force awards Airman for medical readiness

     The Air Force Medical Service named a staff sergeant assigned to the 347th Medical Group as their Outstanding Medical Expeditionary / Operation Readiness Noncommissioned Officer of 2005. Staff Sgt. Cordell Roberson, currently a network administrator for the 347th MDG, received the award for his

  • Saving lives — saving careers

    He answered the call from 21 Airmen, driving 273 miles in a three-month time frame while using his own gas. For his service Airman 1st Class Benjamin Rowe, 16th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, was named Airmen Against Drunk Driving Volunteer of the Quarter. During the past year, Airman Rowe is

  • Kadena sergeant’s kindness reaches across the miles

    The Air Force Enlisted Village may be more than 7,000 miles away, but it’s still close to the heart of one 353rd Special Operations Group first sergeant. Master Sgt. Steven Hoshaw, first sergeant for the 353rd Operations Support Squadron, recently spearheaded a fundraising drive at Kadena Air Base,

  • Two chiefs find acceptance, opportunity in Air Force

    He grew up in the South when segregation was the law of the land. He remembers seeing “Whites only” signs and attending George Washington Carver School, an all-black school, until desegregation was enforced in 1969 and he was bused to the “white school.” His family also had a cross burned in their