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  • Spouses get a taste of mission

    From fire truck to KC-135, family members of the Mission Support Group got a hands-on tour of Fairchild Wednesday. During the group's first-ever Spouse Orientation, spouses and children spent little more than half a day attending interactive demonstrations and mini field trips covering a large

  • Center of Excellence opens its doors to first set of redeployers

    The kids are getting restless; the TV can only hold their attention for so long. Families are waiting in the break room, waiting for their Airmen, waiting for reunion, waiting. Twenty-two maintainers and two KC-135 crews returned to Fairchild Monday after a deployment to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan,

  • VITA representatives for tax year 2006 announced

    Volunteer Income Tax Assistance representatives will prepare federal income taxes, free of charge, for all active-duty, retiree, National Guard and Reserve servicemembers and their dependents at Fairchild. Not only will they be available to assist members in filing their taxes, the VITAs will have

  • Fairchild welcomes Honorary Commanders

    A new group of Fairchild Honorary Commanders were officially welcomed during a reception at the wing commander's residence Saturday night. Local business and civic leaders, Honorary Commanders are chosen based on their ability and willingness to carry the Fairchild story to friends and associates in

  • Medications being used to harm instead of heal

    Most parents know to keep medicine out of the hands of small children. However, toddlers and pre-schoolers aren't the only ones sneaking into cabinets and causing trouble. Many teenagers and young adults are now using over-the-counter and prescription drugs as an easy and cheap way to get high, said

  • Airman helps deployed members become citizens

    Servicemembers deployed to a combat zone receive expedited processing of their Naturalization packages. One of the duties I assumed when I arrived at Bagram Airfield placed me in charge of immigration here, and on Veteran's Day I coordinated the naturalization of 61 soldiers. The naturalization