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  • Sexual Assault Prevention training provided at Dover AFB

    Sexual assault is defined as, "intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, physical threat or abuse of authority or when the victim does not or cannot consent," by the DoD. According to the DoD sexual assault Web site, www.sapr.mil, sexual assault includes: rape, non-consensual sodomy, indecent assault or attempts to commit these
  • A full-scale model of a C-5 Galaxy cockpit, called a combined avionics systems trainer, or CAST, will be used by instructors at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to help train maintainers who will fix avionics systems on the C-5. The trainer comprises five separate sections including a forward cockpit station, navigator station, an aircraft silhouette, an avionics station and an instructor station. The silhouette station, shown here, emulates the movement of C-5 flight control surfaces such as ailerons, elevators and the rudder. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Bolinger)

    Dover AFB receives new maintenance trainer

    The Avionics Modernization Program, also known as AMP, is changing the way C-5s are flown by streamlining the C-5 to emulate civilian aircraft; replacing dials with multi-function display units (computer screens) and installing new communications and navigation panels. These new AMP systems not only impact the pilots who fly the planes, but also
  • (Left to right) Airman 1st Class James Spoon-Roth, 436th Aerial Port Squadron, and Gen. Duncan McNabb, Air Mobility Command commander, each cut a cake Saturday in celebration of the U.S. Air Force’s 59th anniversary during Dover's Air Force Ball. Traditionally, the oldest Airman and the youngest Airman present are selected for the honor. General McNabb is the AMC commander and began his Air Force career in June 1974, while Airman Spoon-Roth, a ramp services technician assigned to the 436th Aerial Port Squadron, entered the Air Force in January and is 19-years-old. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jennie Hess)

    Dover AFB's Air Force Ball

  • 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
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