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  • Airmen show support with blood donation

    Tammie Berry, Mississippi Blood Services, prepares to draw a donation from Staff Sgt. Viviana Chalfonte, 14th Medical Operations Squadron Force Health Management noncommissioned officer in-charge, Dec. 9, 2016, at a blood drive on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. MBS is a non-profit blood

  • 14th SFS, local law enforcement strengthen ties with joint DUI training

    Local Police Department officers and 14th Security Forces Squadron Defenders participated in a Joint DUI Training Dec. 6 – 8, 2016, at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Tech. Sgt. Nathan Sullivan, 14th SFS NCO In-Charge of Standardization and Evaluation, said the training’s purpose was

  • Team BLAZE volunteers for Happy Shop and Wrap

    Team BLAZE members participated in the Happy Fund Shop and Wrap Dec. 8, 2016, at the Columbus Club.  Monetary donations to the Happy Fund were used to buy gifts for local underprivileged children for the holiday season. The program was established by the late George “Happy” Irby, long-term staff

  • Heman-Ackah receives leadership highlight award

    Tech. Sgt. Jordan Boothe, BLAZE 5/6 member, right, hands Airman Ryan Heman-Ackah, 14th Operations Support Squadron Aviation Resource Management Apprentice, left, the BLAZE 5/6 Leadership Highlight award Dec. 5, 2016, at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Heman-Ackah was nominated by his

  • Moody selected to host Lebanese A-29 training

    Moody AFB will be hosting Lebanon Air Force members as they conduct training on the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft. The program is scheduled to begin early 2017 and run through the end of 2018.

  • Team BLAZE celebrates Green Dot with interactive tree

    Daisy Jones-Brown, 14th Flying Training Wing Green Dot Coordinator, sets up an interactive Christmas tree representing the Green Dot program Dec. 2, 2016, in the Wing Headquarters building at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Members can read a red dot and choose a green dot to set over it based

  • Gosney family leads Columbus Christmas Parade

    Representing the 2,479 men and women of Columbus Air Force Base, Col. Doug Gosney, 14th Flying Training Wing Commander, and his wife, Beth, led the Columbus Christmas Parade in a horse drawn carriage piloted by Willie Shumpert and Becky Laughlin Dec. 6, 2016 at Main Street. Columbus Air Force Base

  • Volunteers gather cookie donations for junior Airmen

    Team BLAZE volunteers bag cookies donated by the base populace in the youth center Dec. 5 at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The cookies were bagged and given to Airmen residing in the dormitories as part of the Airman Holiday Cookie Drive. (U.S. Air Force photo by Elizabeth Owens)

  • AFW2 provides recovery, transition for warriors

    Imagine waking up alone in a hospital bed, not aware of your surroundings, and a pit of fear overcomes you within seconds as you ask, “What happened? How did I get here?”  If an Airman woke up tomorrow and realized they were hospitalized after an incident that amputated a limb or worse, their

  • AETC launches Innovation Challenge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxNDYHl2wZQThe AETC Innovation Challenge launches across the command today and continues through February 2017. AETC members are encouraged to submit innovative ideas for awards.“Every day, Airmen across our command find innovative ways to employ resources and get the