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  • Swing batter, batter … swing! Softball players ready for action

    Softball season is starting and Team Dover players are ready to show their skills out on the field. Many squadrons have assembled their softball-winning teams and are aiming to win the championships. John VanderVen, 436th Security Forces Squadron pitcher, thinks his team will win because a handful

  • New system offers improved security for installation entry

    Team Dover members may have already had their common access cards scanned while entering the gates to Dover Air Force Base. This is a Random Antiterrorism Measure now, but is expected to become the standard early next year. The program, Defense Biometric Identification System, is a force-protection

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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