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  • Officials warn against leaving kids in car

    School has started and fall is just around the corner, but the temperature on the thermometer still reads in the 90s or more. It's important for parents to ensure they don't leave their children in the car unattended, or they could face some serious consequences, not just their children's health,

  • Maintaining excellence: Dover NCO earns major award

    Dover Air Force Base is home to a maintainer who takes his job to a new level. Staff Sgt. Christopher Tripp, 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron C-17 flying crew chief, has been awarded the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Thomas N. Barnes Crew Chief of the Year Award for his dedication to his

  • MXS holds off Cops 11-10 to reach base championship

    For the past two years running, the 436th Maintenance Squadron has won the Dover Air Force Base intramural softball championship coming out of the winner's bracket of the tournament.Now, the Maintainers will try to make it three years in a row.The Maintainers scored 10 runs in the first inning and

  • Protocol: Minding manners

    There is an office on Dover Air Force Base which covers two scopes of military life. The Protocol office works with Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center on dignified transfers, by acting as support of the general officer who is present for all dignified transfers. Their second job, and the

  • AFSO21: Striving for perfection

    The Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century program strives for one thing over all - perfection; facilitators assist in the program with their vast knowledge and training on all things lean, these facilitators are ranked by a belt system, and Laura Chupp, 436th Mission Support Group AFSO21

  • Law school programs available

    Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program (FLEP) and Excess Leave Program (ELP) are being accepted from January 1 through March 1, 2011. Interested officers are encouraged to compete.FLEP and ELP are two programs the Air Force provides to help officers who want to attend law school.

  • Political Activity as a Federal Employee

    As election season dawns, talk of health care, education, employment, national debt, and war policy starts to heat up and take on familiar news agency talking points. Whether you are right, left, center, right side up or upside down, military personnel and civilian employees must follow Department

  • Remembering a hero: The Aston Goodman Benefit Dinner

    Heroes are those whose actions show through as going above and beyond the call of duty. Heroes don't worry about themselves; they only focus on those they can help. Heroes seek to right whatever wrongs they see.One such hero was Senior Airman Aston Goodman, stationed at Pope Air Force Base, N.C.