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  • Dover’s Contingency Response Squadron modernizes its fleet of trucks

    The 512th Contingency Response Squadron received four new light service support vehicles in June 2025, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.The unit acquired the military trucks through the National Guard and Reserve Equipment Appropriations process. NGREA allows for Reserve component equipment

  • Advancements in the Identification Efforts for the Cabanatuan POW Camp

    The identification of missing service members, especially those who were Prisoners of War (POWs) in past conflicts, has profound impacts not only on the military community but especially on the living relatives of those lost. In many cases, the family members play key roles in identifying those

  • Honorary Commanders fly high with 3rd AS

    Judy Schlott, 436th Health Care Operations Squadron honorary commander, sits in the flight deck of a C-17 Globemaster III during an orientation flight at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 10, 2025. Honorary Commanders received an orientation flight to gain knowledge of airlift operations with the

  • New Dover AFB Command Team hits the ground running

    U.S. Air Force Col. Jamil Musa, left, 436th Airlift Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Elijah Edwards, center, 436th AW command chief, walk through the Patterson Dining Facility during a command team immersion tour at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 3, 2025. The new command team toured

  • Always ready: 436th OSS/AFE certify aircrew equipment

    U.S. Airman Adrian M. Hernandez, 436th Operations Support Squadron Aircrew Flight Equipment apprentice, uses a scot tester on an aircrew oxygen mask at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 3, 2025. The AFE team provides inspections and maintenance for flight safety equipment such as aircrew oxygen

  • Precision ensures 436th LRS Readiness

    U.S. Airman 1st Class Shanelle King, 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron material management inspection apprentice, writes while inspecting parts at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 2, 2025. As part of the Material Management Flight within the 436th LRS, King is responsible for ensuring

  • Musa takes command of the 436th AW

    Col. Jamil Musa took command of the 436th Airlift Wing from Col. William ‘Chris’ McDonald during a change of command ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, May 30, 2025.Maj. Gen. Charles Bolton, Eighteenth Air Force commander, presided over the ceremony.“Team Dover extends its impact globally,”