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  • Severe weather at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., has forced changes to the work schedule at the 442nd Fighter Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. William Huntington)

    Wing closed for weather

    Due to severe weather conditions and increased snow drift, Whiteman Air Force Base is closed Tuesday, Feb. 13.Members of the 442nd Fighter Wing are not required to report to work.Col. Steve Arthur, 442nd Fighter Wing commander, urges all wing members to be safe and do not drive unless absolutely necessary.Please call 1-800-260-0253 for further
  • An A-10 Thunderbolt II, or "Warthog," from the 442nd Fighter Wing takes off Jul. 4, 2006, on a combat mission from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. A new smart color multi-function display for the A-10 is designed to help pilots communicate better and provide greater situaltional awareness over battlefields in the Global War on Terror. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

    Wing's warthogs get smart

    You can build just about anything on a good foundation. Air Force Reservists of the 442nd Aircraft Maintenance and 303rd Fighter Squadrons are being reminded of that as five of the 442nd Fighter Wing's A-10s are being equipped with "smart" color multi-function color display systems. This technology, new to the A-10, is manufactured by the Raytheon
  • WHITEMAN AFB, Mo -- 442nd Civil Engineer Squadron members, U.S. Air Force reservists from the 442nd Fighter Wing here, pose for a group photo to commemorate their four-month deployment to Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, before returning home in January. During the deployment, they programmed and worked on more than $4.25 million in infrastructure projects to improve the base and airfield, as well as ongoing maintenance projects such as road repair. The 442nd Prime BEEF - Base Engineer Emergency Force - troops represented many of the squadron's occupational disciplines including firefighters, heating ventilation and air conditioning, electrical, structures, power production and utilities. Courtesy photo

    Stampede returns

  • United States Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, center, talks to reporters in the 442nd Fighter Wing's 5-bay maintenance hangar Jan. 20 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Senator Bond is flanked by Col. Steve Arthur, 442nd Fighter Wing commander, left, and Brig. Gen. Greg Biscone, 509th Bomb Wing commander. The Senator visited Whiteman, getting a tour of the base, a briefing from senior leaders and met with members of the media. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jason Burton)

    Senator Bond visits Whiteman AFB

  • Air Force and Department of Defense officials have mandated centralization of personnel functions in all branches of the military. The Air Reserve Personnel Center has developed a way for Air Force Reservists to handle their own personnel needs through the virtual-Personnel Center, Guard and Reserve portal, or vPCGR. It will replace some in-person visits to the local military personnel flight's office. (Photo Illustration/Maj. David Kurle)

    Personnel center transforming customer-service methods

    "The times, they are a-changing" may say it best for the Air Reserve Personnel Center, based in Denver, as it attempts its biggest change in personnel services yet through its Personnel Services Delivery transformation.Department of Defense and Air Force leadership mandated the change to centralize personnel functions through Web-based
  • WHITEMAN AFB, Mo. -- Air Force reservist, Senior Airman Bernie Conrad, 442nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, hands his personnel readiness folder to Charlynne Rojas, a civilian contractor with Whiteman's 509th Mission Support Squadron, for review as he works his way through the various stations of the base's deployment processing center. Airman Conrad, and nearly 300 fellow reservists, helped flex the 442nd Fighter Wing's deployment muscles during an exercise, Jan. 5-7, which focused on the Wing's readiness to deploy in support of wartime taskings. (US Air Force photo / Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)

    The green line

  • MANAS AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan -- Senior Airman Jonathan Gray, an Air Force reservist with the 442nd Security Forces Squadron deployed here, checks the security status of fellow 442nd SFS member, Staff Sgt. Edwin Crampton, upon his return from a patrol. US Air Force photo / Tech. Sgt. Daniel Heiser

    Guardians of hope: Reservists guard Manas, rebuild lives

    Thirteen Airmen from the 442nd Security Forces Squadron deployed to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan in March to provide security for military members going to and returning from Afghanistan. When the Airmen came home to Whiteman AFB, Mo, in September, they returned having accomplished their mission, and brought back a host of unusual and humbling
  • WHITEMAN AFB, Mo. -- Tech. Sgt. Leroy Sharbono, a 442nd Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment technician and an Air Force reservist, here, works on an aircraft jack stand, one of the many types of equipment the AGE shop is responsible for maintaining. US Air Force photo / Master Sgt. Bill Huntington

    Quiet professionals ensure wing's A-10s improve with A.G.E.

    If you thought age on an airplane was bad, think again. In the 442nd Maintenance Group, the AGE refers to Aerospace Ground Equipment and it's almost as vital as the aircraft in the completion of the Air Force mission. Anything from generators to gas-driven compressors to hydraulic test stands to heaters to maintenance stands used to get the
  • SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Then Tech.. Sgt., now Master Sgt., Jerry Hancock, an Air Force Reserve recruiter with the 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., points out Reserve benefits to a potential 442nd Fighter Wing recruit. Sergeant Hancock and recruiting team mate, Tech. Sgt. Ryan Noorlander, earned top Air Force Reserve Command recruiting awards in November. US Air Force photo / Master Sgt. Bill Huntington

    Wing's recruiters earn AFRC awards

    The 442nd Fighter Wing's recruiters rounded up some honors at the Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service banquet in Washington D.C., Nov. 2.The top in-service line recruiter gold medal was awarded to Master Sgt. Jerry Hancock. As the in-service recruiter at Whiteman Air Force Base, Sergeant Hancock is a familiar face to many former 509th Bomb

  • Commentary: Airmen in Afghanistan doing more than flying

    There's a lot happening in the War on Terror that doesn't make the front page.For more than four months I had the honor of serving in Afghanistan, along-side our wing's pilots and maintainers, as part of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing. I traveled extensively, covering Air Force stories across the country, from the volatile regions in the South,
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