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  • 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.

  • Fairchild Airman awarded Bronze Star for meritorious achievement

    Chief Master Sgt. Richard Penny, 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron superintendent, received the Bronze Star Medal by Col. Brian Newberry, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander, Dec. 13, 2013, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash.The chief was recognized for his meritorious achievement while he was deployed as

  • Maintainer honors the fallen

    During many funerals, the base honor guard performs Taps, a musical piece usually played from a bugle or trumpet, to honor a fallen veteran. Most of the time, the honor guard team will use a bugle with a recording placed inside because finding a live musician with the skill to play is hard to come