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  • AFSOUTH Airman presented with the Purple Heart

    An Airman assigned to the 612th Air and Space Operations Center was presented with the Purple Heart at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., April 4.Staff Sgt. Darren C. Fackler, a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialist, was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action during a deployment

  • New Horizons engineering assistant makes a difference

    Two airmen arrive at the construction site of the future Crooked Tree Primary Government School in a three-quarter ton truck, step out and unload a few tools of their trade. Staff Sgt. Joel Bradley, an engineering assistant assigned to the 823rd Red Horse Squadron, carries a tripod over his left

  • 12th AF takes down active-shooter during exercise

    Members of the 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern) A4/7 Directorate employed tactical defense skills to subdue an assailant during an active-shooter exercise at the 12th AF headquarters building on Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., April 4. Master Sgt. Paul Azevedo, who portrayed the perpetrator while

  • New Horizons’ supplies arrive at Belize port

    Nineteen containers arrived to the port of Belize April 2 on U.S. Army Vessels Runnymede and Brandy Station.The containers were filled with supplies for New Horizons, a U.S. Southern Command exercise providing medical and dental treatment as well as constructs needed structures, such as classrooms,

  • 612th SPTS brings 24/7 ops to SOUTHCOM AOR

    Located in the bright and sunny Sonoran desert of Southern Arizona at Davis-Monthan AFB, the 612th Support Squadron carries out its mission twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The squadron's primary mission is to support the United States Southern Command's ongoing task of Countering

  • Medic shows courage after rocket attack

    Three weeks after arriving to her deployed location in Afghanistan, insurgents showered then-Tech. Sgt. Angela Blue's base with 80-millimeter mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire.During the attack, she received a radio request to report to the Afghan National Army side of the

  • Active shooter threat at Holloman mitigated

    Nearly every Air Force installation conducts regular exercises to practice what to do in an active shooter scenario, but what many participants in these exercises may not realize as they're crouched underneath a desk is that these procedures save lives. Last year at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.,

  • Cold War drone calls Beale home

    Overshadowed by the SR-71 Blackbird at Heritage Park sits a lesser known piece of military history, the D-21 Drone. The mission of the D-21 was to provide high altitude aerial reconnaissance carrying a single high-resolution camera over a pre-programmed location and eject its hatch containing the

  • Air Force selects 2nd ever Enlisted Legislative Fellow

    The United States Air Force has announced Senior Master Sgt. Lavor Kirkpatrick, 12th Reconnaissance Squadron imagery analyst instructor, as its 2nd ever Enlisted Legislative Fellow. There were 21 nominations for this year's Secretary of the Air Force Legislative Liaison fellowship. Col. Phil