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  • Fighter wing deploys to wild, wild west

    From the ground, the Barry M. Goldwater Range looks like you've been transported to the set of a 1960's Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. The air is dry enough to taste and the ground barely sprouts an occasional cactus. The mind can only envision what creepy kinds of scorpions slither along these

  • Missouri's 'Walkin' Joe' once walked as 442nd Citizen Airman

    The Air Force has produced scores of general officers who have risen through the enlisted ranks to become commissioned officers. Certainly, the 442nd Fighter Wing has enjoyed its own success in commissioning its enlisted Citizen Airmen into the officer corps. However, the wing has the distinction of

  • Wing teams up for total force training

    The lines between active duty and the Air Force Reserve blurred a little more at the 442nd Fighter Wing in February as it partnered with the 81st Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, the sameA-10 unit it deployed with 10 months ago. Twenty pilots from the 81st, part of the 52nd

  • Reservist featured in VFW PSA

    A little can say a lot. That's the hope Tom Talbert, communications manager for the Veteran's of Foreign Wars national headquarters in Kansas City, has for three little words said by the 442nd Fighter Wing's Master Sgt. Todd Sieleman. Sergeant Sieleman, the non-commissioned officer in charge of

  • Reservist sets 'bench' mark for AF A-10 canopy repairs

    When the 442nd Maintenance Squadron needs to repair one of the wing's A-10 canopies, they mount the Plexiglas domes on a work bench called a "canopy rigging fixture." The problem is the canopy rigging fixtures they and other Air Force Warthog maintainers have had to use over the years are designed

  • 442nd team wins intramural basketball championship

    The 442nd Fighter Wing's over-30 intramural basketballers took home the Whiteman Air Force Base championship trophy for the fourth time in five years Feb. 15 in the base gym. The 442nd defeated the 509th Security Forces Squadron 41 to 32 at the end of regulation in a game marked by tenacious defense