News

  • Honor Guard spends time with elderly

    Senior Airman Jeremiah Necaise, Senior Airman Johnathan Rosales, Airman 1st Class Camren Smith, Tech. Sgt. Damon Snead, Columbus Air Force Base Honor Guard members and The Honorable Robert Smith, Mayor of Columbus and Columbus AFB Wingman, pose for a photo May 15, 2017, at the Windsor Retirement

  • Bat survey

    In 2015, an endangered species of Indiana bat was found in Northeast Mississippi. The range of the bat would include an area extending to Hwy. 82 and includes Columbus Air Force Base. During the 2015 annual review of the Columbus AFB Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan, the US Fish and

  • Rainy days don’t stop Team BLAZE

    Weather can be tricky to predict and it takes highly trained professionals to read the signs and make the call to fly or not to fly.

  • In-Service Recruiter briefs Airmen on AFRC

    Master Sgt. Dustin Ballingham, 908th Airlift Wing Recruiting Squadron Recruiter, briefs Airmen May 10, 2017, at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Ballingham talked about the Air Force Reserve Command, programs for transitioning, the benefits the Reserves has to offer and more. (U.S. Air Force

  • Fireworks on the Water returns to Columbus

    The Fourth of July will once again be celebrated with live music and fireworks over the Stennis Lock and Dam in a patriotic salute to our nation’s 241st birthday.Fireworks on the Water 2017 is a free, open-to-the-public initiative between Visit Columbus, the community and Columbus Air Force Base

  • CAFB moves forward with Air Force Community Partnership Program

    Columbus Air Force Base hosted its second Air Force Community Partnership meeting on Wednesday at the Columbus Club. Over 70 base and community members attended this meeting to share their new ideas of how to create better partnerships between the base and the local Columbus community.

  • Team BLAZE is green for Earth Day

    For the last 47 years, April 22, Earth Day, has been a day where the focus is on the environment. Columbus Air Force Base is all about being ecofriendly and making sure that our mission to Produce Pilots, Advance Airmen and Feed the Fight doesn’t compromise the environment.The first Earth Day was in

  • SAPR office hosts bingo

    Dr. Marcia Stewart, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program Manager, and Carla Neal-Bush, SAPR Victim Advocate, host SAPR Bingo at the Columbus ClubApril 26, 2017, Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The SAPR office put on many events during the Sexual Assault Awareness Month including a 5K