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  • Rooms for 500 -- Hawgsmoke Airmen benefit from prior planning

    In January Senior Master Sgt. Travis Stickels began planning to lodge approximately 500 Airmen and distinguished guests here for Hawgsmoke 2008, an A-10 bombing and aerial gunnery competition hosted this year by the 442nd Fighter Wing from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Sergeant Stickels' list of

  • Hawgsmoke 2008 to continue despite Air Force A-10 inspections

    "Hawgsmoke 2008," an A-10 bombing and gunnery competition scheduled Oct. 15 to 18 in Salina, Kan., will continue despite an Air Force time-compliance technical order (TCTO) requiring immediate inspection and repair of wing cracks in the A-10 fleet, which was issued Friday. The issuance of a TCTO was

  • 442nd Fighter Wing to inspect 11 of its A-10 aircraft

    The 442nd Fighter Wing, an Air Force Reserve Command unit based here, will examine part of its fleet of A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft to comply with an Air Force time-compliance technical order (TCTO) that requires immediate inspection and repair of wing cracks. The action was prompted due to an

  • Wing takes first steps toward ORI

    Citizen Airmen of the 442nd Fighter Wing took a big step Sept. 6 and 7 in preparation for next year's operational readiness inspection. Laden with Mission Oriented Protection Posture gear and other field equipment, the wing's 1,200 reservists executed tasks associated with a combat environment,

  • MOPP 4: Airmen endure, stay focussed

    EXERCISE! EXERCISE! EXERCISE! The 442nd Medical Squadron huddled around the hand-held radio like an old-time family would cling to a Zenith stratosphere floor-model radio as they hinged on every last word of a fire-side chat. Moans and groans were heard as the voice distributed the "bad" news to the

  • Reservists build associate fighter group at Moody AFB

    The Air Force Reserve Command has come to the Flying Tigers at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., in the form of Total Force Integration and, if the stand up of AFRC's 476th Fighter Group is successful as planned, the effort will likely be apparent to no one except perhaps the reservists themselves. A goal