Volunteer opportunities

Below is a list of volunteer opportunities at Fairchild and within the local community. Volunteer opportunities: Stamp Out Hunger Volunteer for the Letter Carriers Food Drive May 9. Second Harvest needs more than 100 volunteers to help load donated bags of groceries into trucks at 10 postal stations

Fairchild briefs

The following is a list of upcoming Fairchild events, education briefs and volunteer opportunities. Highlighted Events: Traffic direction during Bloomsday Volunteers are needed to direct traffic during the Bloomsday event May 2. Those who are interested can call Michael Waldrip at 981-4085. A&FRC

Team Fairchild earns high marks at IG outbrief

Deel hosts Easter egg hunt

Lifesaving exercise demonstrates Fairchild capabilities

Introduction to the Holocaust

The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our Nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust. For 2008, the Days of Remembrance are 27 April through 4 May, and Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is Friday, 2 May. Why is the Holocaust important to study? What do you

Simulators help trim training costs at Fairchild

As the Pentagon looks for ways to cut defense spending in Washington, Fairchild Air Force Base here in Spokane is looking at ways to trim its own budget as well. One way they're trimming costs is putting people behind the controls of an aircraft simulator instead of the real thing. There are some

Three shots, three kills, no exceptions

The captain of a US-flagged merchant ship who was rescued from pirates off Somalia over the weekend is on his way home, but the talk now has turned to the Navy SEALs who helped make his rescue happen. Navy SEALs aboard the USS Bainbridge were able to snap off three shots on three pirates, killing

TRICARE Helps Families Face Autism

Autism delays the development of important life skills. Most people may take these social and communication skills for granted, but autism-related delays and problem behaviors usually start in infancy and can last a lifetime. Life is challenging not only for the diagnosed child, but for parents and

New CE initiative saves money

Fairchild's Environmental Restoration team recently initiated the use of a new environmental sampling technique which will produce comparable data to previous methods while lowering costs and producing very little wastewater. A passive diffusion bag sampler was deployed in an environmental