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  • Fairchild Food Pantry supports Airmen and families

    The warm welcoming doors of Fairchild Air Force Base’s Food Pantry are open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday as well as the first Saturday of the month. Providing food, toiletries, baby supplies, pet food, and a friendly atmosphere, the food pantry is a haven of resources for service members.

  • Fairchild Airman from Belarus assists Ukrainians at home, abroad

    Tech Sgt. Artsem Ivashanka, 92nd Force Support Squadron manpower analyst, left his home in Eastern Europe in his early 20’s, determined to find better opportunities for himself. Ivashanka joined the Language Enabled Airman Program, LEAP, in 2015, allowing him to support the Air Force’s priorities

  • Contracting Airman shines as Air Mobility Commands Contracting Ninja 2022

    Business for the 92nd Contracting Squadron (CONS) has been booming, led by stellar servicemembers and civilians. One key member of the 92nd CONS team has stood out amongst his peers ensuring the unit’s mission can be completed with excellence.Senior Airman Clement Amoasi, 92nd CONS contracting

  • Team Fairchild's only active duty female firefighter answers the call

    The alarms ring, flooding the building with a sense of urgency. The captain of the St. Maries fire department rushes to the scene of an emergency, this time followed by a new volunteer firefighter, his 16-year-old daughter Layla Rice. “I’ve always wanted to be a part of something bigger than

  • Resiliency, one Airman’s journey from Ghana to joining the force

    Fourteen-year-old Rushwaya handed her one-way ticket to the gate agent, boarded the 24-hour flight heading to Washington D.C., and left behind all she had known. “I look back now at everything I’ve accomplished and realized my greatest strength is my resiliency," said Rushwaya.

  • 92nd SFS performs combat readiness training, creating mission-ready Airmen

    Airmen from the 92nd Security Forces Squadron participated in a Combat Readiness Training (CRT) program, simulating an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) environment at Fairchild Air Force Base. CRT is a locally designed program implemented at Fairchild to reteach and emphasize the basics of airbase

  • Puerto Rican Airman helps rebuild his community after Hurricane Fiona

    “I was out with my wife and family celebrating my birthday, and all I could hear on the news and think about was that another hurricane hit Puerto Rico and I felt devastated.”Hurricane Fiona made landfall September 18, 2022, and according to the Associated Press, preliminary investigations show