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In the wake of sequestration, Air Force leaders are calling upon airmen to share their best money-saving ideas through the Every Dollar Counts campaign. U.S. Air Force graphic: Robin Meredith Since Air Force Special Operations Command is at the tip of the spear, both in garrison and deployed, Air Commandos are in the best position to identify potential cost-saving measures, according to Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel, AFSOC commander. The Every Dollar Counts campaign began Wednesday. Both uniformed and civilian Air Force members can part...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley has announced his plan to step down June 21 as the Air Force's top civilian after serving for nearly five years. Air Force News Service graphic "It's been an honor and a privilege to serve with our Air Force's great Airmen," Donley said. "Their accomplishments have been nothing short of impressive and I'm humbled to be a part of this team. The Air Force has been a way of life for so much of my career, I know it will be bittersweet to say farewell." Donley was confirmed a...
FT. GEORGE G. MEADE — Since 1953, the Air Force's air demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, have captivated spectators across the world and showed its audiences what the Air Force's aircraft are capable of. For two years, Lt.Col. Nicole Malachowski surprised audiences not just in the air, but especially when she stepped out of the cockpit of the fighter jet as the first woman to be accepted for a seat on the Air Force's premier show team. U.S. Air Force photo: Tech. Sgt. Justin Pyle Then-Maj. Nicole Malachowski prepares to t...
FORT MEADE, Md. — After Mildred McDowell left the Air Force in 1949, she had one regret — that she no longer had her Women's Army Corps uniform. Fortunately, the year before she died, someone read a story about her life and sent her a replacement. When McDowell died at the age of 104 on Nov. 15, 2012, she was buried in her uniform in Ramsey, Ill., about 75 miles north of Scott Air Force Base. Graphic by Sylvia Saab "She was very proud and pleased that she would be able to be buried in her uniform," said her grand-nephew, Cha...
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — No matter how far women were kept away from combat roles, they were never far from harm and the opportunity to rise above and beyond the call of duty. Graphic by Sylvia Saab Two nurses face tragedy during Operation "Babylift" at the end of Vietnam. An explosion blew out a pressure door of a C-5A Galaxy as it took off from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam, April 4, 1975, forcing it to make an emergency landing with 313 passengers and crew, including 250 orphans. The plane was the first to depart in s...
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — In 1960, Chief Master Sgt. Grace Peterson became the first female chief master sergeant. She was not only the first female chief master sergeant; she was part of the original group of senior NCOs to be selected for the rank of E-9. At the time of promotion, Peterson was the first sergeant of a 400-person Women in the Air Force, or WAF, squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. Chief Peterson entered military service in New York City soon after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that thrust America into the W...
FORT MEADE, Md. — The Air Force's acceptance of women into the force dates back to long before the first "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978. In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps took the unheard-of step of forming and employing two women's aviation units. That same year, a unit of flight nurses who had not yet quite finished their training, were sent into North Africa on Christmas Day following the Allied invasion in November of that year. And the history of women — civilian and military — was forever changed. WASPS...
WASHINGTON — The Air Force released the results of the service-wide health and welfare inspections that were completed in an effort to emphasize an environment of respect, trust and professionalism in the workplace. "Every airman deserves to be treated with respect. They also deserve to work in a professional environment," said Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff. "I've talked with airmen across the force, and believe that some units were not meeting those standards. It's simply unacceptable that we have p...
