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  • Snapshot: Cadets sharpen skills at competition

    Cadet Julie Dumont, Caesar Rodney High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, stands at the position of attention while waiting for judges to test her military knowledge and inspect her uniform during the 2017 Delaware State JROTC Drill Competition April 8, 2017, on Dover Air Force Base, Del.

  • Security Forces Hones Their Skills

    Members of the 436th Security Forces Squadron recently got a chance to train side-by-side with Delaware’s finest. Approximately 30 Delaware State Policemen visited Dover Air Force Base to help the airmen practice some basic, but vital skills.The mission of the 436th Security Forces Squadron is to

  • AMC Test and Evaluation Squadron conducts benchmark

    AMC Test and Evaluation Squadron (AMCTES) conducted a benchmark C-5M Cybersecurity Adversarial Assessment, becoming the first test of this kind conducted on an AMC aircraft, and among the first conducted on any Air Force Major Weapons System. AMCTES Test Directors coordinated the development of

  • AFMES, helping bring loved ones home one FRS at a time

    Processing of Family Reference Samples have previously been performed by the sections of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System Department of Defense DNA Registry but has been moved to a section specifically devoted to that mission.In October 2016, the Family Reference Sample-Laboratory Automation

  • Snapshot: Team Dover honorary commanders tour 436th MXG

    Air Reserve Technician Master Sgt. John Greene, 512th Maintenance Squadron metals technology section NCO in charge, watches Katrina Sullivan, 512th Mission Support Group honorary commander, cut through a piece of angle iron using a plasma cutter during a tour of the 436th Maintenance Group March 29,

  • ‘I say no more because’ spoken by Team Dover

    Team Dover kicked off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with wing senior leadership and base personnel placing “No More” campaign posters with their own individual message on the graffiti wall located in the base Fitness Center, March 31, 2017.Each campaign poster had “I say no more because” preprinted

  • Snapshot: AFMAO gets dog therapy

    Senior Airman Sarah Cruz, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations personal effect s specialist, pets “Tilly,” a PAWS for People dog, during a visit from PAWS for People, March 28, 2017, at AFMAO on Dover Air Force Base, Del. “Tilly” and her owner, Tammy Tatoian, are a part of a program which provides

  • DAFB Honor Guard honors Tuskegee Airman

    The Dover AFB Honor Guard performed military honors at a funeral service for retired Maj. John L. Harrison, Jr., World War II veteran and Tuskegee Airman, March 31, 2017, at the Chapel of the Four Chaplains at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign Kicks Off at Dover

    The annual Air Force Assistance Fund campaign kicked off this week at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. The campaign, which is in its 44th year, will run until May 1. The campaign raises funds for four Air Force charities – the Air Force Aid Society, the Air Force Enlisted Village, the Air Force