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  • Getting ‘readi’ for cyber readiness

    In February, Team Fairchild will undergo its first ever Command Cyber Readiness Inspection.This is a Defense Information Systems Agency-led inspection designed to assess the security posture of Fairchild's unclassified and classified networks compliance with DISA security policy and directives."All

  • Town Hall Meeting raises questions concerning force shaping

    The 92nd Force Support Squadron personnel held town hall meetings Jan. 7 and 9, for enlisted and officer Airmen regarding the new force shaping programs, which will affect more than 700 Airmen across Fairchild. The Air Force as a whole is planning to downsize by approximately 25,000 Airmen and 550

  • Local media members travel to Transit Center at Manas

    From Dec. 10-17, local media near Fairchild Air Force Base were immersed firsthand in a week in the life of a deployed Airman from Fairchild going to the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. The purpose of the media embed was to help the local community see exactly what Fairchild crews do every day

  • Fairchild's Finest: Senior Airman Ilya Demchuk

    Name: Senior Airman Ilya DemchukUnit: 92nd Civil Engineer SquadronDuty title: Contract Officer RepresentativeWhat do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild Air Force Base? I am a liaison between the Contractor and the 92nd Contracting Squadron. Currently, I oversee contracts to ensure that the

  • Fairchild Airman earns STEP promotion to technical sergeant

    Tech. Sgt. Vikas Kumar received his technical sergeant stripe under the Air Force's Stripes for Exceptional Performers program during a 92nd Medical Group commander's call at the base theater Dec. 18, 2013.Kumar serves as the 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron Aerospace & Operational Physiology Flight

  • Rules regulate target shooting, recreation on state trust lands

    State trust lands provide a habitat for native wildlife and access for a wide range of recreation activities, but have necessary rules designed to keep people safe. State trust lands are managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, the Washington State Department of Natural

  • Legal preparedness helps deployment readiness

    Airmen preparing to deploy typically have personal property, money or a family that will be left behind. Bills, car, a household and all sorts of other things need to be managed while deployed. These are a few things to start thinking about early to ease the stress of departure and leaving family

  • Force shaping town hall meetings

    The Air Force is planning to downsize by approximately 25,000 Airmen and as many as 550 aircraft over the next 5 years. This reduction will make the service smaller than ever as an Air Force, and these "shrinking pains" will be felt in countless units and families across the Air Force. As Air Force

  • Fairchild participates in Wreaths Across America

    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 Fort Wright Cemetery in Spokane, Wash., and the Washington State Veteran's Cemetery in Medical Lake, Wash., Dec.