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  • Gen. Duncan McNabb, Air Mobility Command commander, greets Airman 1st Class Michael Irish, 9th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, during the general's luncheon with 436th Airlift Wing Airmen at the Patterson Dining Facility Monday. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. James Wilkinson)

    AMC/CC visits Dover AFB

  • The Air Force Honor Guard from Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., was recently filmed at the Air Mobility Command Museum here for a Medal of Honor flag-folding video that will be presented to Air Force Medal of Honor recipients at the Medal of Honor Convention aboard the USS Constellation in Boston at the end of September. Every living Medal of Honor recipient or their primary next of kin will be presented the commemorative video and an American flag. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Nicole Langley)

    Medal of Honor filming

  • (Front row, left to right) Staff Sergeants Kyle Stryker and Brian Craner and (back row, left to right) Tech. Sergeants Brian Goff and Juan Cabal, 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 3 instructors, march in formation away from the base flagstaff after standing vigil for 10-minutes and being relieved by the 436th Security Forces' vigil detail. Various Dover Airmen stood watch for 10-minute shifts from Reveille to Retreat to honor and remember prisoners of war and servicemembers missing in action on National POW/MIA Recognition Day Sept. 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Bolinger)

    National POW/MIA Recognition Day

  • AMC command chief visits Dover Team

    Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Barron Jr., Air Mobility Command, command chief, spent two days with Dover's Airmen Sept. 6 and 7. The chief spent much of his time talking to Airmen and taking tours of facilities here. "I see your commander's motto and I immediately sense an attitude; that is a reflection of the leadership that we have here," said Chief
  • (Left to right) Ms. Whitney McBride, president of Odyssey Construction; Lt. Col. Gwen Baker, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District commander; Sen. Thomas Carper; U.S. Rep. Mike Castle; Sen. Joseph Biden; Dover Mayor Stephen Speed; Col. Sam Cox, 436th AW commander; and Col. David Wuest, 512th AW vice commander, break ground at the site of the future C-17 Aircrew Training Facility here Monday. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Minto)

    Ceremony celebrates groundbreaking of new facility, arrival of C-17s at Dover AFB

    Distinguished visitors from around the state gathered together with members of the Dover Air Force Base community Monday to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new C-17 training facility and the arrival of C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Dover. Though bittersweet because of the five-year anniversary of 9-11, the ceremony was a celebration of nearly

  • AFSO 21 team uses 'Lean' lessons learned at Dover AFB to energize Airmen throughout AF

    An Air Force Smart Operations 21 team from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., visited Dover recently to gain valuable insight into how to "Lean" a work process. The Air Force is training 72 AFSO 21 Master Process Officers through a six-month certification program administered from the University of

  • HAWC picks up pace with new running clinic

    The Health and Wellness Center sponsored Dover Air Force Base's first Running Clinic at the track here Tuesday. The clinic is offered to the base community and designed to help participants understand running fundamentals and improve their run times, regardless of their running experience or level of ability. "All Airman should develop a running
  • DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Master Sgt. Jeremy Henner, 436th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight chief from Dover Air Force Base, Del., sits in a hospital bed in Baghdad, Iraq, one day after he was injured in an explosion. He was awarded a Purple Heart Aug. 24. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

    Purple Heart recipient sets sights on recovery, eventually serving his country back in Iraq

    When Cheryl Henner was awoken at 3 a.m. June 24 by a telephone call, she let it ring assuming it was a wrong number. When it rang for a second time minutes later, she knew it was about her husband deployed to Iraq. Master Sgt. Jeremy Henner, a 17-year explosives ordnance disposal technician, called from a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, to tell his wife
  • DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Michael Grudnowski (right center), son of Marilyn and David Grudnowski (left and left center), is awarded the Delaware Boys and Girls Club and Dover Air Force Base Youth of the Year by Col. Chad Manske, 436th Airlift Wing vice commander Aug 2. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

    Teen wins DAFB Youth of the Year award

    A high school student sits alone before eight judges. "What are your plans for a post-secondary education?" the judges ask him, trying to determine the character of the candidate who sits before them. "What is the hardest thing you have dealt with in your life?" "The death of my grandfather," answered Michael Grudnowski, whose grandfather passed
  • Andrew Bishop, LRS right fielder, swings during game one of the two-game series. Bishop was one-for-three at bat. He grounded out twice, once in the second inning and once in the fifth. In the seventh, he crushed a grounder past second base for a single. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

    Dover Intramural softball championship

    Game one The 436th Medical Group remained scoreless through five innings of play in game one of Dover's intramural softball championship series against the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron. The Medics had managed to get six batters on base but only one of their runners reached second. The Loggies did not fair any better, scoring only one run in
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