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  • Food is fuel, Fairchild’s flight kitchen

    If you have been to the Warrior Dining Facility, chances are you’ve walked past what is called the flight kitchen, but only a fraction of team Fairchild members have ever entered it.

  • Fairchild Airmen serve as first responders for the community

    As members of the United States Air Force, Fairchild Airmen are held to a higher standard to serve their country and give back to their local community. For some Airmen, utilizing their military skills to work alongside Spokane County Fire District firefighters has provided them a way to give back

  • Fueling around with the mission

    Adorned with training computer terminals and dark leather couches, the staging area for the fuels distribution team has the tense air of any waiting room. Refueling equipment operators can be seen pouring over the latest training materials, going over safety checklists and reviewing daily schedules,

  • Why is that road on base called "Bong" Street?

    Bong Street is named after Richard I. Bong, America’s “Ace of Aces.” While flying the P-38 Lightning fighter in the Pacific during World War II, Bong achieved 40 aerial victories, the most by any pilot in United States history.Bong grew up on a farm in Poplar, Wisconsin, and began flight training in

  • Team Fairchild command chief retires

    While Chief Master Sgt. Christian Pugh, 92nd Air Refueling Wing command chief, was going through Basic Military Training the trainers put all the Airmen in room, gave them a piece of paper and told them to write down skills the new trainees had. Pugh was able to fill up both sides of the paper.

  • Aero repair keeps aircraft flying high

    Fairchild Air Force Base is home to nearly 35 KC-135 Stratotankers, most of which are approaching their 60th birthdays. With little rest for the lynch pin of global reach air refueling in sight, these KC-135s rely on a highly-trained, responsible group of maintainers to keep them in the air.The 92nd

  • Medic gets FOMT certification, works directly with flying units

    Those wearing flight suits might seem a little out of place at the 92nd Medical Group clinic here. However, when the story is discovered, the attire becomes another palpable symbol of Total Force Integration and One Team One Fight.Senior Airman Tara Harvard, 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron flight

  • F-86 wreckage rediscovered 60 years later

    In September 2015, a small team with the United States Forest Service gathered more than 60 miles from Fairchild Air Force Base to begin surveying land near Timber Mountain, Washington, in the 1.1 million acre Colville National Forest.After hours of surveying, they came across aircraft wreckage with

  • An Air Force love story: mil-to-mil marriage can work

    On Friday nights at MacDill Air Force Base, 16 lieutenants would meet for fun and games. For one of them, a special night there would change his life.“We would go to the officers club and play a lot of crud,” said Lt. Col. Matthew Coleman, 92nd Operations Support Squadron commander. “I just remember