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  • Fairchild Air Force Base leadership pose with members of Greater Spokane Incorporation May 21, 2018. Yvonne Batts presented the Air Mobility Command Abilene Trophy to the Greater Spokane community at GSI. Spokane competed with other AMC communities for best community support to their corresponding AMC bases. This is the fourth time Spokane has won the trophy. (From left to right) Col. Alan Hart, 92nd Maintenance Group commander, Col. Scot Heathman, 92nd Air Refueling Wing vice commander, Todd Mielke, GSI chief executive officer, Yvonne Batts, Abilene Trophy committee member, Kevin Twohig, Spokane facilities district, Chief Master Sgt. Lee Mills, 92nd ARW command chief.

    AMC Abilene Trophy presented to Greater Spokane Incorporation

    Fairchild Air Force Base leadership stands proudly with members of Greater Spokane Incorporation as Yvonne Batts presents the Air Mobility Command Abilene Trophy to the Greater Spokane community at GSI, May 21, 2018. Spokane competed with other AMC communities for best community support to their corresponding AMC bases. This is the fourth time
  • LIFT 2017 highlighted 19 storytellers during the course of one day when they shared stories of inspiration, innovation, character and leadership. The storytellers were a diverse group of professionals who have led and inspired in a variety of venues: military, community, business and life. (Courtesy Photo)

    LIFT 2017 Team awarded PACE Leadership Impact Award

    The year of 2017 brought many things to Fairchild: an airshow, additional aircraft and the launch of a summit known as “Leaders Inspiring for Tomorrow.” The conference was the first of its kind amongst military audiences, earning its creators a 2017 Profession of Arms Center of Excellence Leadership Impact Award.
  • The main inlet fuel coupling is an essential part of the multi-point refueling system, creating a seamless flow of fuel from the fuel line into the MPRS pod. As the first aircraft metals technology Airmen to ever attempt to reverse engineer the part, it took Staff Sgt. Steven Doucette, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology shift lead, and Staff Sgt. Steven Bultemeier, 92nd MXS aircraft metals technology craftsman, three weeks to have a finished product. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sean Campbell)

    MXS Airmen get innovative, save AF dollars

    Fairchild Airmen use early generation equipment and aircraft every day to support the global air refueling mission; most of it built and manufactured over 50 years ago. This equipment requires precious care, expert craftsmanship and innovative maintenance to stay mission capable. The 92nd Maintenance Squadron Hydraulics Flight and Fabrication Flight are two maintenance back shops who specialize in keeping early generation equipment and aircraft delivering effective warfighter capabilities at the right place at the right time.
  • ALS graduation 18 Delta

    Top graduates honored at ALS

    Congratulations to the following Airmen of Airman Leadership School Class 18 Delta, who earned top honors during their recent ALS graduation ceremony: Levitow: SrA Juston Cunningham, 92d Operations Support Squadron Commandant: SrA Jerel Laws-Mosley, 92d Force Support Squadron Academic: SrA Tyler Ellingson, 92d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Distinguished: SrA Jerel Laws-Mosley, 92d Force Support Squadron SrA Jessica Dillow, 92d Medical Operations Squadron
  • A school liaison provides support for military families transitioning in and out of Fairchild and acts as the “middle man” between the base, military families and the local community. Fairchild is surrounded by 11 different school districts, all offering various resources, extracurricular activities and academics. (Courtesy Photo)

    Boxes, bubble wrap, a new school

    A school liaison provides support for military families transitioning in and out of Fairchild and acts as the “middle man” between the base, military families and the local community.

  • Healthy Disciplinary Practices for Parents

    We often joke about how when our children are born they don’t come with an owner’s manual; after a long, stressful day we might wish there was a rule book to help us engage with our children when they are being just that---children. We might reach our limits with our child and after talking, yelling, warnings, or threats, we might lose our cool and control. For some, we might wonder about the rules around physical discipline toward our children.
  • Oregon Air National Guard Airmen from Kingsley Field and civil engineer officers from multiple locations across the U.S. pose for a photo after a structural live fire exercise at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, April 18, 2018. Kingsley Field firefighters, who lacked adequate training facilities, and civil engineer officers, who required fire marshal certification, both seized an opportunity for joint training with Fairchild during a week-long training effort. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jesenia Landaverde)

    Fairchild firefighters lead training for ANG, community partners

    Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base firefighters lacked adequate training facilities and civil engineer officers from various locations across the country required fire marshal certifications, so they seized the opportunity to develop a week-long joint training effort with Team Fairchild.
  • Gonzaga’s School of Counseling tours Michael Anderson Elementary at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, April 17, 2018. The group visited the base education center, received a mission brief and had a tour at the elementary school to get an inside look at the resources available to military children. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mackenzie Richardson)

    AFRC, Gonzaga partner to educate

    The Comprehensive School Counselor Program began in 2014, the result of the partnership between Fairchild’s Airman & Family Readiness Center and Gonzaga University’s School of Counseling. The goal of the program is to provide information on military families, military education and military life to future educators, administrators and counselors.
  • (from left) Capt. Joseph Migliuri, 92nd Medical Group pediatrician, Capt. Neal Alexander, 92nd MDG maternal child flight nurse manager, and Airman 1st Class Levi Brown, 92nd MDG aerospace medical technician, review patient medical records prior to an appointment April 4, 2018, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. The pediatric team has implemented a new concept of operations: rewarding, efficiency, setting priorities and empowering team members, or RESET, to their system of patient care. Virtual appointments are offered to allow patients to receive the care they need from doctors without having to visit the clinic and has also allowed doctors to have more time to see more patients per day (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Whitney Laine)

    RESET improves pediatric care

    The 92nd Medical Group Pediatric Clinic implemented a new concept of operations: rewarding, efficiency, setting priorities and empowering team members, or RESET, to their system of patient care.
  • Fairchild Airman saves two children

    Fairchild Airman saves two children

    Master Sgt. Joshua O’Brien was walking with his family around Medical Lake enjoying a unseasonably-warm Washington winter day. As they made their way toward the waterfront, O’Brien noticed two young girls walking out onto the frozen lake when the girls suddenly fell through the ice into the water below.O’Brien immediately jumped into action, diving
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