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  • Service contract awarded to Tidewater Utilities Incorporated

    Tidewater Utilities Incorporated (TUI) has been awarded a 50 year service contract at Dover Air Force Base for the operational management of the water production and distribution system, for the Industrial side of base and lodging, Dover Express, pool, billeting, golf course and youth center on the

  • AMC seeks 2014 Air Force Marathon Participants

    The 18th annual United States Air Force Marathon will be held Sept. 20, 2014 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Air Mobility Command will again sponsor an active duty team comprised of both male and female runners representing various age groups to compete in the full and half

  • DAFB implements government shutdown procedures

    Beginning Oct. 1, Dover Air Force Base began an orderly shutdown of government activities here, said base officials.Due to the lapse in appropriations, half of the approximately 1,000 civilian workers were placed on emergency furlough. Col. Rick Moore, 436th Airlift Wing commander, spoke about the

  • Consolidating funds

    Starting Apr. 1, Fort Sill National Bank will close the doors on its standalone bank, while its Base Exchange counterpart will remain open on Dover Air Force Base, Del.FSNB is closing it separate location to consolidate locations. "We tried to consolidate last summer but the BX didn't have the room

  • Airmen Helping Airmen: AFAF campaign kicks off

    'Airmen Helping Airmen' is the theme of the Air Force Assistance Fund campaign, which kicked off with a donation drive at the commissary Mar. 11, 2013, on Dover Air Force Base, Del.The AFAF campaign, which runs from Mar. 11 through April 19, raises money through donations from Airmen to support to

  • Eagles' Rest Inn poised to win AF's best - again

    In regards to military lodging facilities: there are those with exceptional staff and beautiful facilities that provide their guests world-class services, comfort and care - and then there is the 2011 Air Force Innkeeper of the Year award recipient, the Eagles' Rest Inn at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

  • Airman of the Week: Tech. Sgt. Latersa S. Frazier

    Name/rank: Tech. Sgt. Latersa S. FrazierSquadron: Air Force Mortuary Affairs OperationsJob description: NCO in charge of Families of the Fallen branch at AFMAOPrevious assignments: Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.; Eglin AFB, Fla.Family: I have an 11-year-old daughter. Favorite

  • Eagle's Rest wins AF's best

    Eagle's Rest Inn, Dover AFB's lodging facility, has been named 2011 Innkeeper of the Year (small base) for the Air Force. The award will be presented in New York City in November. Rauchelle Watson, Eagle's Rest general manager, believed her inn was the best, now they have the award to prove it.

  • Make long TDYs easier

    The Air Force Financial Services Center initiated a new program in May designed to help servicemembers and civilians not incur debts while on government travel.Partial settlement travel vouchers are in their beginning stages at Dover AFB and allow servicemembers to receive entitlements in increments

  • Operation Cookie Drop brings holiday spirit to dorm Airmen

    More than 500 Airmen staying in the dorms over Christmas will now have the opportunity to eat some hand delivered cookies thanks to Operation Cookie Drop. The cookies were delivered to the dorms here on Dec. 21, 2010.Operation Cookie Drop, organized by the Chief's Group, is an Air Force-wide