• Flight safety reduces mid-air collisions

    Fighter jocks, private flight instructors, student and recreational pilots all share the most advanced cockpit system in aviation: the human eye. Failure to "see-and-avoid" is the number one cause of mid-air collisions according to the Federal Aviation Administration Special Use Airspace information

  • SJ NCO directs security forces support for Southwest Asia wing

    Tech. Sgt. Albert Branch is a security forces craftsman with the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at a non-disclosed base here.As a security forces Airman, Sergeant Branch supports all security and force protection efforts for a deployed wing, the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, of more

  • Former enemy pilots share their story with SJ community

    Two years ago, they were long-lost enemies brought together by a series of coincidences that showed war for what it often is: a disagreement between friends who just haven't had a chance to meet yet. Since that time, former enemy pilots retired Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry and Nguyen Hong My formed an

  • AF officials release names of master sergeant selects

    Sixty eight technical sergeants here received news of their selection for promotion to master sergeant May 27.Air Force officials selected 24.85 percent of eligible technical sergeants for promotion. The average score for those selected was 341.18, with an average time in grade of 4.49 years and an

  • For Beth and a cure

    As darkness fell on Raleigh's Glenwood Avenue, 567th REDHORSE Squadron Commander Col. Tim Lamb maintained a steady pace -- the same light jog that had carried him, in just under three hours, some 15 miles.To passers-by, the sight of a lone runner making his way down the sidewalks that line one of

  • Comedian shares laughs, serious message with SJ community

    At some point in everyone's life they make a bad decision, some people are able to find their way back onto the straight and narrow path and others continue down the path of destruction. Bernie McGrenahan began abusing alcohol in eighth grade. A lifestyle of heavy drinking and partying cost him a

  • Seymour Johnson Airmen visit veterans

    In celebration of the National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans, Airmen from Air Force Sergeant's Association Chapter 371, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base honor guard and various 4th Fighter Wing squadrons visited veterans at Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center to show their appreciation, May 21.

  • AF education changes imminent

    The Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support will no longer fund any retests for college-level exams due to budget constraints and low pass rates beginning Oct. 1.DANTES provides funds for exams in the College Level Exam and Excelsior College Exam Programs as well as DANTES Subject

  • Gone but not forgotten

    To some people the thought of completing a marathon is overwhelming, but for the 567th RED HORSE Squadron commander it did not seem like enough, he began a 81.4-mile run May 20, 2010, to celebrate his wife's memory. Col. Tim Lamb ran from Duke Hospital in Durham where Beth, his wife, received cancer

  • CAPTF armament advisor makes Afghans proud

    Master Sgt. Raymond Rogers Jr. stands and watches two Afghanistan National Army Air Corps weapon loaders put new 12.7 mm rounds into the Yak-B Gatling gun of an MI-35 Hind E attack helicopter. He stands with a smile on his face. The kind of smile a proud parent or teacher could understand. For