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  • Boxing veteran trains ringside with Fairchild Airmen

    Growing up in a professional boxing home, with constant training, matches and running his family's boxing camp, Coach Danny Graves has grown to appreciate the fine art of his intense sport and now shares that appreciation with Fairchild Airmen. Graves, age 68, is currently a coach for the USA

  • Essay winner wins for the second year in a row

    Club members and their families were given the opportunity to win an Air Force Clubs Membership Scholarship this year by submitting a one page 500 word essay on "who or what inspires you to be successful and why?"A total of 156 entries were submitted to the Directorate of Services, Operations

  • Staying Mentally Healthy

    Editor's Note: This article is the second in a 4-part series on Comprehensive Airman Fitness. The goal of CAF is to help Airmen, Air Force civilians and family members become more resilient and better-equipped to deal with the rigors of military life by promoting mental, spiritual, social and

  • Airman becomes father to triplets while deployed

    Deploying can be a disorienting experience in and of itself. Senior Airman Harley Wicks, 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Transportation at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., left for Afghanistan the day after Christmas last year knowing that he was about to be the father of triplets.Wick's

  • Torchlight Parade lights up the streets

    The 75th Anniversary of the Spokane Lilac Festival's Armed Forces Torchlight Parade was held last weekend in downtown Spokane, Wash. Approximately 160,000 people among the community including veterans and active duty service members all went out to see the parade.The mission of the Spokane Lilac

  • Vision for all

    The Fairchild Air Force Base optometry clinic is not only here for active-duty military members, but dependents and retirees as well.The clinic offers two appointments each day for patients specifically "other than active-duty" beneficiaries. In addition, any appointments available within 10 days

  • Jumping to conclusions

    Survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists performed static line and free-fall jumps from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter Nov. 6, 2012. A static line is a cord attached at one end to an aircraft and the other to the parachutist. As they fall from the aircraft, it causes the line to deploy their

  • Golden West Brass brings holiday cheer to Fairchild, Spokane community

    Five brass players of the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West stationed at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., came to Fairchild to bring holiday cheer to Airmen and families as well as touring the local community Dec. 13 and 14, playing holiday classics such as "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and

  • Team Fairchild 2012 year in review

    2012 was a busy year for TeamFairchild. The installation opened a new $18.8 million fitness center as well as two newly-renovated dining facilities and broke ground for a new headquarters building. Top Air Force performers Tops In Blue and the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard team visited Team Fairchild