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  • 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

  • Update: Wing construction projects on track

    Several construction projects on Whiteman Air Force Base are moving closer to completion, the most visible of which is a new building for the 303rd Fighter Squadron. The building, which will be a state-of-the-art facility, is nearing 90 percent completion, according to Ken Nugent, the deputy base

  • Citizen Airmen from medical squadron answer a compassionate calling

    Storage shelves at the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility here are loaded with bandages, syringes and pills of all sizes. The staff here isn't short on anything they need as they serve wounded troops flying in daily on C-17s and KC-135s from Iraq and Afghanistan. They know that such items are