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  • Raise a glass, make a speech with Toastmasters

    Toastmasters International celebrated its 90th birthday last year and, for the first time in recent history, Airmen at Fairchild Air Force Base can celebrate with them.Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1924 that operates for the purpose of helping members

  • Event honors fallen heroes

    Team Fairchild, the Spokane community and the families and friends of fallen veterans gathered to place wreaths upon veterans' burial stones in support of Wreaths Across America at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake, Wash., Dec. 13, 2014.The Wreaths Across America event is

  • Fairchild welcomes new Command Chief

    As a 12-year-old, Christian Pugh already knew he wanted to be in the military and make a career out of it. Little did he know he would become the senior enlisted leader for more than 2,000 Airmen, and advise his commander on enlisted force issues.As the new command chief of the 92nd Air Refueling

  • Tool to safeguard PII integrated AF-wide

    Air Force officials integrated the Digital Signature Enforcement tool Air Force-wide Dec. 5, providing Microsoft Outlook email users with an interactive, automated virtual assistant to help ensure the security of personally identifiable information."I can't overstate the operational importance of

  • Mutual-aid HAZMAT exercise strengthens response capabilities

    Team Fairchild hosted it's first-ever mutual-aid hazardous materials emergency response training exercise with members of the Spokane, Wash. emergency responders here, Dec. 8-11.Agencies involved include Spokane City Fire Department, Kootenai County emergency management, Spokane City EM, a 92nd

  • The Boom Podcast, Dec. 12

    This week Staff Sgt. D.J. Ayres and Senior Airman Corrine Jones discuss the change of tobacco prices on military bases, the ceremonial end in the Afghan combat mission, bomber training area expansion and much more. This is Senior Airman Jones's last episode.YouTube:

  • Fairchild Airman selected for commission

    A Fairchild Airman was 1 of 10 candidates selected for commission Nov. 10 as part of the Biomedical Science Corp Direct Accession Program. Tech. Sgt. Vikas Kumar, the 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron aerospace and physiology flight NCO in charge, competed against enlisted, line officers and cadets

  • Operation Cookie Drop a success

    Spokane's Lilac Festival FAB 14 assisted the Officer's Spouses Club with Operation Cookie Drop Dec. 8 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.Operation Cookie Drop is an annual event where they drop distribute bags of cookies to the Airmen living in the dormitories here.