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  • GTC not only helps Airmen, but base as well

    The government travel charge card program is a resource the Air Force uses to assist members with making official travel reservations such as temporary duty assignments, deployments and permanent change of stations. The program helps Airmen make purchases for airline tickets, hotels, rental cars,

  • Fairchild has its first-ever DCP exercise

    The 92nd Air Refueling Wing held its first-ever disease containment plan exercise Aug. 16 - 18. The scenario that was tested contained a mass-disease outbreak.With a combination of the wing's exercise planners, inspectors, the exercise evaluation team and the medical group - the wing had a chance to

  • 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