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  • X marks the spot

    Crabs, mermaids, seaweed creatures, sailors, parrots, crocodiles, Sam the Clam, beach bums and Jolly Rodger, all came to the Youth Center on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to tell the story of Blackbeard the Pirate and his hidden treasure, August 8, 2014.The Missoula Children's Theatre, based in

  • Maintaining the C-5 fleet begins at Dover

    "Delivering today's airlift..." are the first words of Team Dover's mission. But how do we ensure the Air Force's largest aircraft stay in the skies and continue to deliver cargo down range and provide humanitarian relief?The answer is having qualified maintainers whose job are to troubleshoot and

  • Through Historian's Eyes

    As famed Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, David McCullough, once said, "History is who we are and why we are the way we are." Academically and publically, this quotation easily applies to levels of history that are on the scale of general topics such as the world, Western Civilization,

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • AFMAO wins Dover Iron Chef competition

    The tension of two competing teams was almost as thick as the aroma of food cooking in the Patterson Dining Facility kitchen here - so thick you could have cut it with a knife during the Dover Iron Chef competition July 24, 2014.Based loosely on the popular television show "Iron Chef America," two

  • MXS upsets top-ranked CES in intramural softball

    The 2014 intramural softball playoffs are right around the corner and teams are laying it all out on the field to secure their spot in the postseason tournament.The 436th Maintenance Squadron defeated the number one ranked 436th Civil Engineer Squadron 13-11 in an American League intramural softball

  • MARE: What you need to know

    There will be an upcoming force protection and anti-terrorism major accident response exercise here, Aug. 1-6 to test the base's response capabilities for real-world emergencies.The MARE exercise is an annual base training requirement that consist of simulated emergency events. However, these