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  • Hot maintenance

    Carrying out maintenance on Team Dover's fleet of C-5M Super Galaxies and C-17A Globemaster IIIs can be challenging at times, but extreme heat and humidity can add additional challenges during the summer months. Throughout the hottest months of the year, Team Dover Airmen from the 436th and 512th

  • Team Dover gets fit in July

    The 436th Airlift Wing is gearing up to dedicate the month of July to a number of different fitness events and challenges beginning July 1, 2015, here.This initiative, named Fit4Freedom, will commence with a 24/7 fitness center access registration drive that will continue for the entire month where

  • Supporting the needs of our future leaders

    In the military, the act of being uprooted every couple of years or more, commonly known as a Permanent Change of Station, is always possible for military members and their dependents.Established Air Force and base programs have assisted those affected by a PCS as a whole but here at Dover Air Force

  • Locking up a repeat: 436th SFS season gets off to rocky start

    This story is the first in a five-part series highlighting last year's intramural softball team's attempt to defend their title.In any sport, there are pros and cons to winning the championship. You prove you are the best and you validate all your hard work, but you also paint a target on your back

  • Behind the scenes at the creation of an Airlifter newspaper

    Have you ever wondered how you are able to read articles in the Airlifter like you are doing now? Have you ever seen yourself in the base newspaper and thought, "How and where is the paper even made?"Well in order to produce a single copy of the Airlifter, it takes a joint effort between the 436th

  • Commissaries serve as Feds Feed Families collection sites

    Commissaries are serving as collection points for the Feds Feed Families campaign, which began June 1 and ends Aug. 31 at participating stateside military installations.During the campaign, participating installations help collect items most needed by food pantries and then donate them to area food

  • When tour guides become tourists

    A group of volunteers, used to teaching the air mobility mission, were recently given the opportunity to learn about advancements in Team Dover's largest aircraft.A group of 16 volunteers from the Air Mobility Command Museum toured a static C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter with 9th Airlift Squadron crew