JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) — A doctor from the 59th Medical Wing received multiple honors recently for his research in treating wounded service members. Lt. Col. (Dr.) Vikhyat Bebarta, the director of the 59th MDW En Route Care…
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The Air Force mistakenly issued medical benefits to more than 1,000 voluntarily separating airmen earlier this year, and is now revoking those benefits. Airmen separating under the Voluntary Separation Pay program — a major component of the cash-strapped Air Force’s…
Typhoon washes away 3 U.S. Airmen
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon made landfall in central Japan this morning after washing three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea the previous day, killing at least one. Elsewhere in the Pacific, a separate typhoon whipped the Mariana Islands, including…
Dover tail flash flies around the ‘Monster Mile’
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFNS) — The Dover tail flash is blue, yellow, black and white, has the head of an eagle, depicts the Liberty Bell, proudly displays the name “Dover,” and normally is only found adorning the tail…
Airmen deliver Ebola treatment facility to West Africa
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) — Airmen from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, partnered with representatives from the U.S. Public Health Service Sept. 26, to deliver a modular medical treatment center, as part of a government-wide effort to support humanitarian relief…
Air Force reluctantly accepts the Global Hawks
(Air Force Times) While the plan to keep new, unmanned Global Hawks over the aging manned U-2 has support among top Defense Department officials, the top combat general in the Air Force says it is not the best military solution.…
