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  • A tip for success: Know your color

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center is now offering a course that teaches Team Fairchild to understand and adapt to their peers True Colors.The Airman and Family Readiness Center offers a True Colors course, based on a personality identification model, to help unit members understand

  • Fairchild crews participate in airstrikes against ISIL

    Fairchild aircrews are actively participating in support of the mission against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant known as ISIL.U.S. military forces and partner nations, including the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab

  • Enlisted Spouses Club steps up to keep Airman's Attic running

    Starting this month, Team Fairchild Enlisted Spouses Club members will be spending their free time as volunteers, keeping the Airman and Family Readiness Center's Airman's Attic up and running.Due to fiscal year budget changes, contracted positions are no longer being supported and the Airman's

  • Washington gets their money worth with the Guard

    Washington State Governor Jay Inslee hosted a group of approximately 50 Washington National Guardsmen and first responders at the Governor's Mansion in Olympia, Washington, Sept. 29, to honor them for their contribution to the State Route 530 slide.The formal ceremony started out with appetizers and

  • Army Rangers conduct two-week military exercise at JBLM, Fairchild

    Rangers from 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment stationed at JBLM will conduct a military training exercise Oct. 6-17 at JBLM and Fairchild AFB, Washington. Units from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field,

  • First Hispanic female general: Brig. Gen. Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti

    Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti was a pioneer as the first Hispanic female to obtain the rank of brigadier general in the United States Air Force in 1985.She attended Regina School of Nursing and received a nursing diploma. Since she worked on the base and decided to join the Air Force in 1958. She began

  • First Air Force Latina pilot: Lt. Col. Olga E. Custodio

    Lt. Col. Olga E. Custodio made U.S. military history by becoming the first Hispanic female pilot in the United States Air Force. Not only did Custodio become the first female Hispanic pilot, but she was the first Latina to complete U.S Air Force military pilot training.Custodio was born in San Juan,

  • Early Ford V-8 Club experiences Fairchild mission first-hand

    The Early Ford V-8 Club members received a base tour Sept. 26. The tour consisted of 36 members including several retired veterans from different branches of the military.Fairchild hosted a tour that held stops at aerospace physiology, a KC-135 Stratotanker static display, the dining facility,

  • Final wing run of year

    Members of Team Fairchild participated in the last wing run of the year at here Sept. 26.The run allowed Airmen to enhance their unit cohesion through team morale and welfare, and covered about 1.5 miles around base, starting and ending in Miller Park.

  • The Boom Podcast, Sept. 26

    The Boom Podcast connects Team Fairchild socially with Air Force headlines, Fairchild news and other current topics of discussion. It's designed to be informational and entertaining as well as engaging.Check out below for this week's edition: