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  • Honorary Commander nominated for NSF

    One of the ways in which the Air Force seeks to enhance its relationship with civilian leaders is through the National Security Forum.Mike Tatoian, Dover Motor Sports, Inc. chief operating officer and 436th Airlift Wing honorary commander, was selected and will attend the 61st Annual NSF May 6-8, at

  • APS rolls past the 373d TRS/MOS in intramural basketball

    The 436th Aerial Port Squadron improved to 8-1 on the season with a second half comeback victory over the 373d Training Squadron/Maintenance Operations Squadron in intramural basketball Feb. 20, 2014, at the fitness center here.The 436th APS were down eight points by half time, but rallied back to

  • Team Dover honors Delaware Veterans

    It is not every day that Team Dover Airmen have an opportunity to interact and pay tribute to Delaware's military veterans. Members of the Dover Air Force Base Top 3 organization lent their support in recognizing Delaware Veterans Home (DVH) residents who have called the facility their home for

  • Yearlong effort shifts U.S.' main Afghanistan air hub

    Nearly a year of intense planning among a global group of stakeholders came to fruition with the recent transition of the Air Force's main Afghanistan air transportation hub from Manas Kyrgystan to a new temporary location in Romania.For more than a decade, the Manas Transit Center oversaw the

  • Electronic cigarette use increasing among Airmen

    Electronic cigarette use is becoming a popular alternative to traditional cigarettes, but the upward trend is becoming a concern for health care providers.The battery-operated products, known as e-cigarettes, are designed to deliver nicotine, flavor, and other chemicals as a vapor that is inhaled by

  • ECARS coming to Dover

    The Employee-vehicle Certification and Reporting System, or ECARS, is scheduled to go online by the end of August 2014 at Dover Air Force Base. ECARS is an Air Force program that will ensure the base aligns with the Clean Air Act, section 118(d). This section states that military personnel and

  • Press Release: Dover Airman killed in vehicle accident

    Senior Airman Victor Quach, 26, was killed in a vehicle accident on I-95 North near Girard Avenue in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia at approximately 4:00 a.m. February 18.He was stationed at Dover Air Force Base, Del., and was assigned to the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron as a Fuel and Water

  • Team Dover participates in joint training exercise

    In the snowy mountain top terrain of Pennsylvania, one of Dover Air Force Base's own C-17 Globemaster III soars overhead and deploys countermeasure flares at simulated surface-to-air missiles also known as, smokey SAMs.Members of Dover's 326th Airlift Squadron participated in a joint live fire