• Airmen create works of art with metals technology

    Off Japan's east coast, The Continental Plate and the Pacific Ocean Plate meet to form the Japan Trench.On March 11, 2011, the downward pressure from the Continental Plate on the Pacific plate suddenly released, causing it to surge more than 200 feet upward, triggering a magnitude 8.9 earthquake -

  • Dedicated crew chiefs honored by 90th Fighter Squadron

    "General, when is the last time you washed a rental car?"The story of how a crew chief responded to Air Force Gen. William Creech in the 1970s when asked what the maintainer liked about the Dedicated Crew Chief Program, reverberated through a hangar at the 90th Fighter Squadron on Joint Base

  • Thai combat controllers, U.S. air support operations make it rain

    Fliers and ground crews got used to a lot of foreign accents throughout Red Flag Alaska 15-3.However, for U.S. and coalition C-130 Hercules pilots, one unique accent that routinely pierced the steady droning noise of their Pratt and Whitney motors came from Royal Thai Air Force combat

  • Big impact: 3rd MUNS Airmen train to build munitions

    'The United States Air Force, dropping warheads on foreheads since 1947.' Many have heard this phrase before, perhaps chuckled, and moved on.Those who hear it may attribute the glory to the brave men and women piloting fighter jets every day, but few think, 'Where do the bombs come from; and how

  • 3rd ASOS conducts joint 'jump week' with 1 Geronimo troops

    Two doors on the aircraft flew open with a bang and the wind pulled and tugged, trying to grab whatever or whoever it could.The jumpmaster yelled "Go! Go! Go!" as the Airmen and paratroopers fell like a hail of arrows.Kodiak Solstice jump week is hosted by the Air Force 3rd Air Support Operations

  • 3rd ASOS Airmen remember their fallen with a 24-hour run

    Each year, members of the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron's Tactical Control Party organize and participate in a 24-hour run challenge to honor the 10 fallen TACP family who were killed in combat and training operations in the last 20 years.The 24-hour run challenge is a worldwide competition to

  • 3rd Wing looks back at ‘tremendous’ 2014, forward to new year

    As a new year starts, the 3rd Wing has already begun to gear up in support of exercise Sentry Aloha, an annual aerial combat exercise focused on offensive and defensive counter measures. However, before they begin the many operations they will support in 2015, Air Force Col. Charles Corcoran, 3rd

  • Airmen vie for top load-crew distinction

    "You just have to do it right and do it slow," said Airman 1st Class Dominic Hobbs, an aircraft armament systems specialist with the 90th Aircraft Maintenance Unit.That advice works - as long as your definition of "slow" is less than 35 minutes.When loading 2,000 lbs of explosives and hundreds of

  • Airman continues the family business

    Dana Walker is from a family focused on science. Her father and her siblings have careers in different sciences and Walker herself chose to become a meteorologist in the Air Force."I could have done practically anything and I picked weather," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Walker, 3rd Operations Support