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  • MSG, MDG commanders pass the reigns

    Dover bid farewell to two group commanders during change of command ceremonies here recently. Col. Robert King, 436th Mission Support Group commander, relinquished command to Col. Vic Sowers at the Air Mobility Command Museum July 14. Colonel King and his wife, Ruth, are heading to Iowa State University. Colonel King will command the Air Force
  • Senior Airman Sasha Cummings, 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron, “holds down the fort” against an insurgent attack during the Expeditionary Combat Skills Training exercise "Base X" here July 13. ECST consists of a minimum of 19 hours of training divided between classroom instruction and “hands-on” field training and is required for all deploying Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. James Wilkinson)

    ECST preps Airmen for deployments

    "Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him." This principle, taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, written in the 2nd Century B.C., is being applied by the Air Force today to prepare Airmen for waging a new kind of war - the Global War on Terror. Expeditionary Combat Skills Training, an Air Force-mandated

  • Take steps towards a healthier life style

    "These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do." These lyrics shot Nancy Sinatra to the No. 1 Billboard musical slot in 1966 where she stayed for 14 weeks. In roughly the same amount of time, those lyrics can help us improve our Air Force fitness scores. As part of the "Fit to Fight" program, we all are required to pass our

  • SFS net AF award

    The 436th Security Forces Squadron recently garnered the Air Force’s award for Best Anti-terrorism Program for an Operational Unit. The squadron, which had won at the command level, is following an award-winning trend. Dover has garnered successive annual installation, unit or program manager antiterrorism awards since 1998. Captain Thomas
  • More than 60 members of the Dover Team march in Tuesday's Independence Day Parade in the city of Dover.

    Dover AFB helps city salute America's birthday

    More than 70 members of Team Dover helped our host city celebrate the birth of America Tuesday, with day-long activities, from a hometown parade to musical entertainment and a fireworks display. Hundreds of community members and visitors to the "First State," staked out spots on both sides of State Street, for the City of Dover's Independence Day

  • LSEP evaluates maintenance, logistics performance

    While most units sole focus was just the Unit Compliance Inspection during the second week of January, the 436th Maintenance and Mission Support Groups and their underlying units were challenged with two inspections simultaneously. The Logistics Standardization and Evaluation Program was conducted in conjunction with the UCI inspector general team

  • Dover hosts AF rider-coach trainer course

    Recently the Air Force Safety Center selected Dover Air Force Base as one of eight Air Force bases to host a Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider-Coach Preparation Workshop. Dover reinstated the Basic Motorcycle Safety Course last August after a 10-year hiatus and is now looking to train instructors to teach the basic and advanced rider courses. "The

  • New travel system changes way DoD members schedule, claim military travel

    Dover Air Force Base will soon join other Department of Defense organizations that already use the new Defense Travel System. "DTS is a state-of-the-art system that draws from the best features of commercial travel technology and links them to the DoD financial and accounting systems to provide the user a seamless, responsive travel system," said
  • DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Jeff McCombs, 436th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, monitors the burning of Building 480, the old Airman Leadership School facility, at Dover Air Force Base Feb. 20. From Feb. 20 – 23, the base fire department, along with local civilian fire departments throughout Delaware, torched different rooms inside the building to train and refresh firefighters on building-entry tactics and blaze-extinguishing methods. More than 100 firefighters between the base and local departments received valuable training participating in the burn. The fire department burned the building completely to the ground, which caused a smoke plume that could be seen from more than 10 miles away.

    Burning down the house

    More than 395,000 homes went up in flames in the U. S. in 2004. However, firefighters don't get to train daily on a burning house to practice extinguishing it. Instead, they must wait until a fire actually happens. That can change on the rare occasion a department gets to burn a building down on purpose. From Feb 20 - 23 the base fire department

  • Retired Airman receives award for bravery

    A retired master sergeant was awarded the Airman's Medal at the Air Mobility Command Museum February 22. Forty-eight years, eight months and 19 days after retired Master Sgt. Linwood A. Miller saved the lives of his fellow crew members after a deadly plane crash in 1957, he was rewarded for his actions. The Airman's Medal is awarded to members who
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