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  • Team Dover Airman competes on AF National Pistol Team

    As a child, Tucker Sears grew up in Graham, Texas, with his three older brothers learning how to shoot BB guns and eventually moving up to .22-caliber rifles.This love of guns led to plenty of hunting trips with his brothers and grandfather.  But when Sears was 12 his oldest brother, Terrence Sears,

  • Special Olympics supported by volunteer Airmen

    With a look of joy on their faces, medals around their necks and sweat on their brows, each and every cyclist earned a sense of accomplishment.Team Dover came out in force as 115 Airmen volunteered their Saturday morning to support more than 70 athletes to compete at the 2015 Special Olympics

  • Wing commander marks halfway point

    One down; one more to go. It has been one whole year since Col. Michael Grismer, 436th Airlift Wing commander, walked across the stage and was handed the 436th Airlift Wing's unit flag, symbolically marking the commencement of his command.Now one year later, he recounts the Eagle Wing's

  • Team Dover participates in Air Force Community Partnership initiative

    Air Force changes require coordination from all involved in the change and Team Dover and Kent County community members are working side-by-side through Team Dover's P4 initiatives-- Public-Public; Public-Private Partnership-- to help make change possible.The program, commonly known as "P4," is an

  • Suicide: A preventable outcome

    Many people have been affected by a suicide in one form or another, whether it is the loss of a family member or a friend. The month of September has been designated as National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month in an effort to create cognizance for suicide prevention, and Team Dover is doing

  • AFMES transitions to Defense Health Agency

    The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System has a history dating back to the 1950s and early 1960s which evolved by the expansion of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology's field of study that included a forensic pathology registry in 1958.In 1959, the Military Environmental Pathology Division was

  • Operation KUDOS/TUDOS

    For children, watching their parents go off on a deployment can be a dramatic and frightening experience.  Team Dover recently hosted an event to help make that experience a little less scary for children.The 2015 Operation Kids/Teachers Understanding Deployment Operations (KUDOS/TUDOS) took place

  • Prescription Drug Take-Back Sept. 12 at the Dover AFB Commissary

    On Sept. 12, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the 436th Security Forces Squadron along with the 436th Medical Squadron/Pharmacy and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its tenth opportunity in four years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially