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  • Team Dover hosts McChord Civic Leaders

    Nineteen honorary commanders and civic leaders from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, came to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for a three-day Community Relations Tour, June 7-9, 2017.The purpose of hosting the CRT was to expose JBLM members to the similar and unique missions of another Air

  • Touch-and-Go: FTU heads to Texas

    The C-5M Super Galaxy Formal Training Unit conducted its final training flight June 8, 2017, at Dover AFB prior to its move to the Lone Star State.

  • LIBERTY WING CHANGES COMMANDERS

    Col. Craig C. Peters assumed command of the 512th Airlift Wing in a ceremony today inside an aircraft hangar here. The colonel’s previous assignment was at Beale Air Force Base, California, where he served as the wing commander for the 940th Air Refueling Wing, Air Force Reserve Command. 

  • Councils pave way to solve global mobility challenges

    Squadron, group and wing leaders at Travis Air Force Base, California, meet regularly to discuss ways to improve mission capability and solve problems for each of the base’s aircraft, the KC-10 Extender, C-5M Super Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III.

  • AMC continues to pursue fuel efficiency initiatives

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill.  -- From electronic flight bags to flight management system modifications, Air Mobility Command Airmen are contributing innovative and cost-saving ways to enhance the command’s fuel efficiency. According to Lt. Col. Vince Zabala, AMC’s fuel efficiency program manager,

  • Snapshot: NASCAR weekend comes to Dover

    The Jess Zimmerman Band performs live during the biannual NASCAR Social June 2, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The band is associated with Victory Weekend, an organization that travels to select NASCAR races to perform for thousands of first responders, veterans, military and law enforcement

  • 18th Air Force commander visits Dover AFB

    Newly-appointed 18th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Giovanni Tuck and 18th Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Todd Petzel visited Dover Air Force Base June 5as part of a multi-base trip to meet the command’s Airmen and acclimate himself to the Team Dover’s capabilities and challenges.Tuck assumed

  • Driver honors Airmen on the track

    NASCAR driver Jennifer Jo Cobb, through her organization Driven2Honor, hosted female Team Dover Airmen for a VIP experience June 2, 2017, at Dover International Speedway, Delaware.

  • Operation Colony Glacier: Bringing servicemembers home

    Operation Colony Glacier, an annual mission to recover remains and aircraft debris from a 1952 crash of a U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster II onto Colony Glacier, began June 5 and is scheduled to continue until June 30.