Medical clinic celebrates 50th anniversary

The 92nd Medical Group clinic turns 50 years old this year and its history is a testimony to the ever-changing, highly adaptable people it employs. The medical group can be traced back to the horse cavalry era and the battles across the Spokane Plains. Perhaps as early as 1858, the medical unit

A career of caring

If you've deployed out of Fairchild, you've met Tech. Sgt. Carlos Ramossanchez. He was the smiling fellow handing you a box of cookies or a book to make your journey a little easier.If you're the spouse of one of those deployed Airmen, you've met Sergeant Ramossanchez at the Airman and Family

'Remote Control' plays at Fairchild

SERE Challenge pushes competition to the limit

The 22nd Training Squadron at Fairchild hosted the SERE Challenge Aug. 10, a multi-sport event that pushed competitors' stamina and strength to the limits.Featuring individual and team competitions, the event pitted hard-core Team Fairchild Airmen against one another in ten physically grueling

Families gain insight into deployment process

The troops were starting to get rowdy. About half way through an intelligence briefing preceding their special mission, mutiny was setting in amongst the ranks. "No, no, no" one of the deploying troops screamed out from the back of the room, interrupting the lieutenant colonel's briefing. Another

Train like you fight

Reserve exercise stresses mission readiness

Forty-one health care specialists from the 604th Medical Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit at Fairchild, "deployed" to Camp Airey on base Aug. 3-6 for a four-day medical readiness exercise.Airmen from the 604th MDS regularly deploy on a volunteer basis to Southwest Asia, but the unit has not

Fairchild's KC-135 saves lives in Aeromedical evacuation mission

While the KC-135 Stratotanker was originally designed to extend the length of other aircrafts' flight times, aircrews at Fairchild are also using the airplane for a completely different mission - to extend medical care to critically injured patients. Tanker aircraft began augmenting the Air Force's

Visitors flock to Fairchild for Skyfest

A record-breaking crowd estimated at 125,000 visitors turned out this weekend for Skyfest 2006, the base's air show and open house. Eclipsing the previous record of 123,000 set in 2004, this year's Skyfest featured Airmen from all professions from Team Fairchild representing the Air Force and its

Washington Air National Guard joins Operation Jump Start

The 141st Air Refueling Wing, Washington Air National Guard, deployed a small portable expeditionary aeromedical rapid response package for Operation Jump Start July 31. Operation Jump Start is the National Guard' s mission supporting Customs and Border Patrol to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.A