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  • VITA program at Fairchild here to help

    Why pay to have your taxes filed? With one phone call to Fairchild Air Force Base's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance center, volunteers are standing by to help file returns for free."At the Fairchild tax center, the volunteers are all members of the Department of Defense community, so you can count

  • Fairchild helicopter pilot wins AETC award

    A helicopter pilot from the 36th Rescue Flight was awarded the Air Education and Training Command Aviator Valor Award for the year 2012.Capt. Ashly Barnes, the standardization and evaluation liaison officer, 36th Rescue Flight, distinguished herself as a pilot during a mission to save the life of a

  • Hanging out at the survival school

    Survival, evasion, resistance and escape students from the SV80B class performed hoisting techniques during a training exercise Jan. 25.The SV80B course provides emergency and recovery training in the event of an isolating incident.

  • Listen, Learn and ASIST

    The base chapel staff hosts a suicide intervention course February 21-22 to teach Airmen how to help someone who may become, or is already, suicidal. The two-day applied suicide intervention skills training course, known as ASIST. Chaplains at Fairchild have taught for the last two years. Since it

  • New mobile app keeps Team Fairchild informed

    Anyone who ever wished there was an app to find out what's going on at Fairchild Air Force Base can wish no more. Fairchild has joined the ranks of a dozen other bases that have implemented such technology during the past eight months. The free application for smart phones and tablet

  • And make it a double

    Kelsey Mathison draws a unit of blood using the Haemonetics machine which allows the donor to give a double unit of red blood cells. The Inland Northwest Blood Center parked the parking lot of the Exchange, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Jan. 25, 2013. The advantage of donating a double unit of

  • Air Force leaders deliver budget guidance to force

    Air Mobility Command officials recently released guidance to help prepare for potential fiscal cutbacks if sequestration is not resolved by 1 Mar."Flying operations at Fairchild, not directly related to readiness, will be curtailed and only mission-critical TDYs will be approved," said Col. Brian

  • The Commanders Jazz Ensemble performs in the Inland Northwest

    "The Commanders Jazz Ensemble," from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., performed in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox Theater in downtown Spokane, Jan. 20. The theater is a restored 1931 art deco theater, which reopened in 2007 as a regional performing arts center. The 18-member musical group

  • 92nd ARW garners another AFOUA

    Most Airmen assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing are in need of a device for their ribbon rack.The wing recently garnered its second Air Force Outstanding Unit Award in as many years.Airmen assigned to the 92nd ARW between Aug. 1, 2011 and Aug. 31, 2012 are eligible for the award."Members of the

  • Team Fairchild honors MLK Day

    The Spokane Community Mass Gospel Choir performs during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Ceremony in the chapel at Fairchild Air Force Base Wash., Jan. 18 ,2013. The ceremony honored, remembered and celebrated King's contributions to the civil rights movement.