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  • Fairchild's Finest: Airman 1st Class Cynthia D. Padilla

    Fairchild's Finest is a weekly recognition program that highlights top-performing members of Team Fairchild.Rank/Name: Airman 1st Class Cynthia D. PadillaUnit of assignment: 92nd Comptroller SquadronDuty title: Finance Services TechnicianHometown and state: Yakima, WashingtonWhat do you do on a

  • AF COOL program prepares Airmen for professionalization

    The Air Force has introduced a program that enables credentialing for a variety of Air Force Specialty Code-related skills. Those credentials can then be applied for use in the civilian sector following separation from the military.The AF Credentialing Opportunities Online, a Total Force enlisted

  • Confidence gained through SERE combat survival training

    Early on a Saturday morning, students load onto a bus headed to a destination unknown to most of them. The bus gears turn and wheels screech as it creeps toward its course. A destination more than 70 miles from base, deep in the Colville and Kaniksu National Forests.Upon arriving at the national

  • Airfield systems specialists keep tankers safe

    The 92nd Operation Support Squadron airfield systems specialists balance today's readiness with tomorrow's modernization by ensuring all equipment on the airfield is up-to-date and working within specified standards.Air traffic controllers and pilots depend on them to ensure the systems and

  • Lost WWII wallet returned by Spokane neighbors, Airmen

    Simply by volunteering to sort a bag of donations, Kelsey Nearing didn't know she would activate a chain of events that would bring neighbors and siblings together.Recently, Nearing was sorting donations for the Rocky Cove Youth Ranch intended to be part of an annual fundraising event. In the

  • The lost mission: Fairchild's bombers and the FICON project

    More often than not, as the sands of time ebb and flow, and as the people and events of days of the past move further away while we try to cope with the here and now, much is forgotten.Few realize there were two B-29 Superfortress bombardment groups stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base in the late

  • Mission Monday: Medical maintainers nurse base operations

    Doctors receive a lot of credit for saving peoples' lives directly, and they should. Still, have you ever wondered where the equipment doctors use to preserve life comes from and who is responsible for keeping it in working order?The three Airmen who comprise the 92nd Medical Support Squadron

  • Fairchild's Finest: Senior Airman Stephon Sharief

    Fairchild's Finest is a weekly recognition program that highlights top-performing members of Team Fairchild.Rank/Name: Senior Airman Stephon ShariefUnit of assignment: 92nd Operations GroupDuty title: Group Unit Deployment Manager and Boom OperatorHometown: Grand Forks, North DakotaWhat do you do on

  • Fairchild's Finest: Staff Sgt. Michelle Malinao

    Rank/Name: Staff Sgt. Michelle MalinaoUnit of assignment: 92nd Medical Operations Squadron Mental Health ClinicNominee's duty title: Mental Health TechnicianHometown: Manila, PhilippinesWhat do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild AFB? I oversee the mental health element. I schedule patient

  • A1C to Lt. Col. returns to Fairchild as squadron commander

    "If you asked me when I left this base 23 years ago,  'Hey, do you think you'll be showing back up at Fairchild to be a squadron commander?,' I would have said, 'Not a chance'," reflected  Lt. Col. Matt Coleman, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing chief of safety, soon to be commander of the 92nd Operations