June 26, 2009 AMXS Airman takes down irate airline passenger "I want to slit the captain's throat," is not what passengers want to hear an irate man, pacing up and down the aisles on an airline flight, shout over and over again. However, in the face of this peril on an international commercial flight to Italy, this is what one Dover mechanic discovered - and
June 24, 2009 Downrange: Our Airmen's perspective Rank/Name: Senior Airman Jerry W. Baker Unit: 436th Operations Support Squadron Deployed Unit/Location: 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Southwest Asia Describe your job at your deployed location: We support 9 - 15 missions a day, preparing night vision goggles, combat survivor evader locater
June 24, 2009 This Week in History: June 22 - 26 June 26, 1917: Pilot trainees from the DuPont flying school conducted a 'mock' aerial bombing on the city of Wilmington, Del. Instead of munitions, these aerial students dropped handbills from their aircraft advertising enlistment opportunities in the U.S. Army Air Corps. June 26, 1948: The Berlin
June 24, 2009 June 18 Airman Leadership School graduates Congratulations to the following Airman Leadership School graduates: Class Command Chief and Distinguished Graduate Staff Sgt. Jared Hess, 436th CES Class First Sergeant and Leadership Award Staff Sgt. Andrew Kelley, 436th APS John L. Levitow Award Senior Airman Alison Archangeli, 127 OSF/Michigan
June 22, 2009 Base library offers wealth of free resources If someone asks you to describe a library, you may picture a serene place filled with shelves of leather-bound books and the smell of rich mahogany. Many libraries are a refuge for those wanting peaceful solitude as they read or study in silence. But today's libraries are livelier with the power of
June 21, 2009 AMC Museum showcases new attractions at Dover AFB Open House At the Dover Air Force Base Open House and Air Show today, the Air Mobility Command Museum is showcasing two of its newest aircraft and displaying another in a new manner for the first time. U-3 "Blue-Canoe" A U-3 aircraft, with a fresh coat of paint, is making its debut this weekend at the base
June 21, 2009 In the patrons perspective - Dover AFB Open House and Air Show The familiar hamburger and gyro aroma was in the air. High-flying birds of war zoomed overhead to the thundering sound of patriotic music. Patrons found their way through static displays and a wide-array of vendors - this was the Dover Air Force Base Open House and Air Show. Despite a delay and rain