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    Labor Day: Historically dangerous time for DAFB

    Team Dover celebrates an Air Mobility Command's family day today and begins a four-day weekend to celebrate Labor Day. The extended weekend also marks the end of this year's '101 Critical Days of Summer' safety campaign here. "Since Memorial Day, 11 Dover Team members have received injuries serious enough to cause them to lose time away from work,"
  • (Airman 1st Class Timothy Barnhart, 436th Medical Support Squadron medical logistics material journeyman, inspects first aid kits to ensure they are not outdated and to add or remove contents. Many items can be included in first aid kits. Water, bandages, alcohol wipes, and gauze are included in nearly all kits. Additionally, matches and even candy or soup may be housed in kits for those Airmen at deployed locations overseas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Shen-Chia Chu)

    ‘Log Dogs’ keep doctors supplied

    The word 'basement' sparks the first thought of a dusty, dark and shabby room with no windows, no light and never ending piles of unwanted junk stacked on top of one another. But imagine a well-lit basement, filled with all sorts of supplies organized on automatic moving shelves. Pens used by doctors for signatures on a medical record, bandages and
  • (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Mike Mullen)

    PMEL: No margin of error

    Image winning an all-expense-paid vacation of your dreams! You eagerly wait for the tickets to arrive and then you scurry off to the airport to catch the flight. A few hours into the flight, something goes terribly wrong. On approach to your destination, the belly of the craft braises the top of a mountain and the plane goes down. Fortunately, all
  • (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Airman Shen-Chia Chu)

    Fly over Dover

    Imagine this - You plant your feet on the pedals and firmly hold the steering wheel. Your stomach feels unsettled and you hesitate from pressing any buttons, knowing the consequences could be devastating. Keep the nose high, the tail low and balancing just enough to keep the plane flying you think, 'Wow, it's like flying a real plane! Except, it is
  • Staff Sgt. Christopher Dwyer, 436th Aeromedical Dental Operations Squadron independent duty medical technician, performs a physical assessment of Lt. Col. Doug Rouse, 436th ADOS flight surgeon. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace)

    Enlisted medics - Dover Airman provides needed care with pride

    "Medic! I need a medic over here," shouts an Airman as he swiftly attempts on-the-spot self-aid, buddy-care bandaging techniques on his fellow Soldier, who was just wounded severely by incoming hostile fire from a nearby building. Under a cover of friendly machine-gun fire, a medic quickly comes to the Soldier's aid and takes over the life-saving
  • Dover sends team of hand-picked Airmen to McChord Air Force Base, Wash., where they will compete against 45 other Air Force teams, three Marine Corps teams, a Coast Guard team and ten international teams in 2007 Air Mobility Command Rodeo. (U.S. photo illustration/Mike Mullen)

    Dover Heads West for AMC Rodeo

    A band of Airmen, their knuckles stiff, gloves worn through and brows dripping sweat after a grueling 12 hours of combating a turbo-fan engine, scurry across the airfield with their toolboxes in hand. Yellow lights flash overhead as aerial porters taxi their k-loaders back to the docks. The security forces stand alert and vigilant, ensuring nobody
  • 2nd Lt. Lidia Iyassu, 436th Security Forces Squadron logistics officer, clears her weapon at the clearing barrel as Tech. Sgt. Gary Stansberry, 436th SFS police services and acting clearing barrel official, observes procedure. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Shen-chia Chu)

    SFS Airman lives ‘American dream’

    Part 3 of a 3-part seriesPeople from all over the world come to America searching for opportunity. Leaving everything behind to chase after their dreams, some people leave their homeland to make money and become rich and wealthy. Others come to pursue freedom of speech, freedom of religion and unalienable rights. For one family, America was their
  • Maj. Arezoo Barani and her twin sister Maj. Elham Barani, both dentists with the 436th Aeromedical Dental Operations Squadron here, pose for a photograph in spirit of Dover Air Force Base's multicultural events. The twins are Iranian immigrants. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Bolinger)

    EXPLORING DOVER'S DIVERSITY - Two sisters from Iran help show how America is a true melting pot

    During investigations for a three-part series, celebrating and exploring the diversity of Airmen here, base journalists discovered two sisters - both Air Force officers, both dentists and both Iranian immigrants. Majors Elham and Arezoo Barani are identical twins who, after immigrating to America to go to college, joined the Air Force. Both are
  • Airman 1st Class (E-4) Duane Hackney receives Air Force Cross. He was the first living recipient of the medal. (Courtesy photo)

    U.S. HEROES: BACKBONE OF INDEPENDENCE -Accounts of Four Most Decorated War Heroes

    Wednesday was a day of celebration for Team Dover as it marked 231 years since America declared its independence from England and engaged in war to secure that independence. Since that day, America's security has always rested on the backs of the men and women willing to sacrifice whatever necessary to defend it. Following in the footsteps of our
  • Defense Couriers

    Defense Couriers: Excellence in secure, rapid movement

    A two-person team secures a pallet of classified test equipment aboard a small military aircraft at Defense Courier Station Honolulu. Meanwhile, another two-person team leaves DCS San Diego via surface transportation, escorting classified material to a local customer. As these deliveries are being made, a Soldier books a commercial flight out of
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