Fairchild Airmen rescue hiker, son

Airmen from the 336th Training Group saved a 50-year-old man from a mountaintop near Wenatchee, Wash., Saturday night. Patrick Ward had been hiking with his son, who contacted local authorities when his father began suffering from acute mountain sickness."When you go up in altitude, your body

Two in two weeks; 36th Rescue Flight rescues another victim

Fairchild Airmen rescued a 52 year-old female mountain biker Wednesday near Thompson Pass, Idaho after she flipped over her handlebars and injured her ribs and back. The victim, Paulette Kirby, was on a single-track mountain bike trail participating in the six-day Idaho Expedition Race when she hit

British soccer coaches teach Fairchild youth

Fairchild Youth Programs hosted a British Soccer Camp for base youth Aug. 8 - 12. This is the fourth year that the base has offered this camp for Fairchild youth during summer months.Challenger Sports, a United Kingdom-based company, approached the base in 2008 with the idea of providing summer

Fairchild Exchange making the grade with back-to-school sales

The new school year is just around the corner and the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is here to help students with all their school needs. Everything from supplies to clothing, the Fairchild Exchange has it in store for students and parents. The Exchange is making it easy to stay hip with the

Team Fairchild goes green in a ‘Concrete’ type of way

Contractors who are working on Team Fairchild's new runway are crushing tons of concrete from the old runway and going 'green' by recycling it.The suggestion came about in October of last year when Fairchild started laying out the blueprint for its brand new $43 million runway."When the contractors

Deployed Fairchild Airmen helping to break records

Just over halfway into 2011, Airmen with the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron here have already shattered more than a dozen records.These Airmen once again proved they have what it takes to raise the standard and set the bar high; they flew 493 sorties in July, breaking the Transit Center's

Deployed Fairchild K-9 supporting Manas mission

A decade of service is more than most military members serve; in fact with the deployment tempo and demands for military working dogs, it's on the higher end of a MWD's service as well. But, Lucky is not a typical dog. At 10-years old this Belgian Malinois is the oldest MWD at the Transit Center.

36th Rescue Flight secures save 662 -- Fairchild Airmen rescue SERE student

A student attending the Survival Evasion Resistance Escape training course in the Colville National Forest, Wash., was rescued Tuesday after he went into anaphylactic shock following a bee sting.The student, 1st Lt. Andrew Metzger, was practicing evasion techniques when he was stung.Three Airmen

Master Sgt. welcomes his son to Fairchild

The phone text read: How would you like me to come home permanently? When he received the text, his first concern was if his son was hurt, then he wondered if he got kicked out. He was relieved when neither was the case, then the text read: I'm coming to Fairchild with you... As of two weeks ago,

Fairchild beats time limit by 32 secs during maintenance skills competition