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  • Fairchild Food Pantry celebrates one year of support to the base community

    The process to a permanent change of station with family, especially in the middle of a pandemic, can be an arduous one, including the usual stressors of housing, childcare, and spousal employment. The last thing any family wants to worry about is where their next meal is coming from.“On the heels

  • Lt. Col. Street: Overcoming cancer through connectedness, resiliency

    Lt. Col. Michael Street, 92nd Operations Group deputy group commander, began his journey fighting stage four rectal cancer after being diagnosed in April 2016. Street was only 38 years old at the time of his cancer diagnosis with a survival rate of 12% within the first five years of being diagnosed.

  • AFSOC Gains Valuable Training from Fairchild Tankers

    Fairchild KC-135 Stratotankers globally support many mission types as Air Mobility Command’s premiere air refueling wing and has put the recently reactivated 97th ARS to work training with C-130 aircrews that undertake dangerous flying missions.

  • Fairchild hosts, completes Mobility Guardian exercise

    Fairchild Air Force Base hosted U.S. Airmen, Soldiers, and Marines, along with international partners from around the world, as they worked together to practice joint coalition operations in support of Air Mobility Command’s Mobility Guardian 2019 exercise, in Washington, Sept. 8-28.

  • Stay alive to enjoy the ride: free motorcycle safety class

    Team Fairchild 92nd Air Refueling Wing safety officials are providing a free intermediate motorcycle safety class scheduled to inform and train Airmen on current policies at 8 a.m., at the installation motorcycle range July 26.The intermediate motorcycle safety class is being held to mitigate risks

  • Fairchild rocks Global Thunder

    Several Fairchild KC-135 Stratotankers stand ready near the alert facility in the gloom of a frosty November morning; the airfield is tense, yet quiet. A klaxon abruptly sounds; proceeding, dozens of aircrew and maintainers charged out onto the flightline within seconds, beelining to the waiting

  • "676" Stratofortress static display stands proud

    There's a story behind everything, and it holds true to the B-52 Stratofortress static display in the Heritage Park near the entrance of the base.The B-52, serial number 56-0676, is a D model and has a long and impressive history. It was delivered to the Air Force in August 1957, and its first

  • To honor with dignity

    These Airmen spend countless hours perfecting minuscule movements in unison. Remaining superb, regardless of severity in temperature or size of crowds, they stand steadfast throughout every funeral and ceremony, honoring all who have served.

  • Fairchild spouse offers more than just a dance class

    Everyone gives back to the Air Force community in their own way. Adriana Bruton, a military spouse here, gives back to the community by providing dance classes at the base gym for all members of Team Fairchild.

  • Fairchild's Finest: Senior Airman Joshua Thaxton

    Nominee's Rank/Name: Senior Airman Joshua ThaxtonUnit of assignment: 92nd Civil Engineer SquadronDuty title: Requirements and Optimizations Water and Fuels Systems Maintenance RepresentativeHome town and state: Beulah, MichiganWhat do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild AFB?I conduct wing-wide CES