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  • AMC instructs youth development professionals in 4-H basics

    Air Mobility Command Headquarters instructed 19 youth coordinators from six AMC bases to take part in 4-H "101" and resiliency training here March 13-16, to learn and share best practices for Air Force youth development. "Head, heart, hands and health" are the four H's in 4-H. This conference, based

  • AFRC focuses on parent, child relationships

    The Air Force Community Assessment covers topics including personal and family adjustment, individual and family adaptation, community well-being, deployment, resiliency, post-traumatic stress and help-seeking behaviors.The survey is designed to assist helping professionals working in chaplains'

  • 92nd ARW commander stresses importance of Wingman intervention

    The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Wing Commanders' Guide was sent out to wing commanders recently and contains statistics, facts and talking points to help leaders encourage healthy conversations among their Airmen, which senior leaders say is paramount to eliminating sexual crimes in the

  • Artists needed to help create display for SARC

    The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office here needs artists to design T-shirts for Sexual Assault Awareness Month coming up in April.The Clothesline Project, which according to the base Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, Jessica Bradshaw, was created to give victims of violent crimes a

  • Fairchild and Air Force History (Jan. 30 - Feb. 4)

    Listed below are significant historical events that occurred during the week of 29 Jan - 4 Feb at Fairchild Air Force Base.Jan. 31, 1998: In support of U.S. national security objectives in the Persian Gulf, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing deployed personnel for Operation Phoenix Scorpion II.Feb. 1,

  • Former Fairchild commander passes away Dec. 19

    Col. Donald L. Keplinger, United States Air Force (retired) passed away Dec. 19, 2009, in Mesa, Ariz., surrounded by his family and listening to Sinatra's Come Fly with Me. Colonel Keplinger was the 92nd Bombardment Wing commander at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., from June 1971 to April 1973. He

  • Fairchild’s name 56 years old

    On July 20, 1951, Spokane Air Force Base was officially named Fairchild during a base dedication ceremony. The base was named for Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and a Bellingham, Wash., native. The keynote speaker at the event was supposed to be Gen. Hoyt S.

  • 50 Years Ago - 93rd ARS receives USAF's first KC-135

    Last August, the Air Force celebrated the 50th anniversary of the roll-out of the KC-135 Stratotanker. Fairchild held a week-long celebration, to include a heritage flight involving local civic leaders and media. It was an appropriate homage to the venerable aircraft that has meant so much to this

  • Wing historian relives joys, trials of old Fairchild KC-135 airframe

    "Start the water!" When I was a copilot in the KC-135A model here at Fairchild back in 1979, that order from the aircraft commander filled me with excitement and anxiety -- excitement because we were starting our takeoff roll and anxiety because I never knew if the aircraft's water injection system