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  • Cybersecurity Awareness Month - Secure Teleworking

    While teleworking is not a new concept, the COVID pandemic highlighted the complexities of working efficiently, productively and most importantly, securely from home. Operating under the emerging constraints of COVID and the need for social distancing, the Air Force quickly adapted by implementing secure ways for more than 300,000 personnel to
  • Col. Phelemon Williams, left, 436th Mission Support Group commander; Lt. Col. Kady Griffin, second from right, 436th Force Support Squadron commander and Col. Shanon Anderson, right, 436th Airlift Wing vice commander, stand with cyclists during the 2021 Special Olympics Delaware Cycling Classic at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Oct. 2, 2021.Team Dover senior leadership presented medals to the top three finishers in each event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    Dover AFB hosts 2021 Special Olympics Cycling Classic

    More than 40 cyclists competed in the Special Olympics Delaware 2021 Cycling Classic at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Oct. 2, 2021.After the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, cyclists representing five teams from Delaware and one from Virginia returned to Dover AFB to participate in 500-meter, 1K, 2K, 5K bicycle and tricycle
  • Staff Sgt. Miriam Malapit, right, 436th Force Support Squadron storeroom manager, serves food to Tech. Sgt. Kyle Robinson, left, 512th Mortuary Affairs Squadron mortuary technician at the Patterson Dining Facility on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Sept. 17, 2021. The DFAC held a picnic-style lunch commemorating the grand reopening, as well as a cake cutting celebrating the Air Force’s 74th birthday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    Patterson DFAC officially reopens, celebrates AF birthday

    After closing for approximately two months due to renovations and upgrades, the Patterson Dining Facility officially reopened Sept. 17, 2021 at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.Food service resumed normal operations Sept. 10, with a soft reopening allowing military and civilian personnel assigned to the facility a chance to familiarize themselves
  • Senior Airman Kyle Spence, 436th Civil Engineer Squadron fire department operator, performed “Striking the Four Fives” during the 20th Anniversary 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony held at the Air Mobility Command Museum’s 9/11 Memorial on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Sept. 11, 2021. Spence rang the bell five times, for four sets, to honor the 343 firefighters who died while responding to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York Sept. 11, 2001. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    Team Dover remembers: 20th anniversary of 9/11

    Team Dover commemorated the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with a ruck march and a remembrance ceremony. Beginning at 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 10, members of Team Dover rucked or ran at the base track for just over a 24-hour period, before a procession of first response vehicles made their way to the Air Mobility Command Museum for the 9/11 Remembrance
  • Dr. Phil Lewis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Pest Method Lab, holds a Spotted Lanternfly at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 24, 2021. The “hitchhiker” insects is believed to have made their way from Asia aboard shipping vessels. They attach themselves and lay eggs on objects which then causes disbursement around the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    Dover AFB, USDA turn lights out on Spotted Lanternfly

    The U.S. Air Force selected the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron pest management section as the lead test hub for future Spotted Lanternfly mitigation practices for military aircraft.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has described the Spotted Lanternfly as an invasive insect, native to Asia, that can cause damage to crops, ornamental trees, vineyards
  • Staff Sgt. Bryan Henry, 436th Operational Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape flight augmentee, signals at a C-17 Globemaster III near Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet, Delaware, Aug. 4, 2021. The crew aboard the life raft used several signaling devices like the CSEL radio, sea dye, life raft canopy and flare to vector the C-17 to their location during their exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Marco A. Gomez)

    Dover AFB leads joint, interagency survival training

    COAST GUARD STATION INDIAN RIVER INLET, Del. – Imagine being in a yellow life raft in the middle of the ocean after surviving an aircraft incident. There is an aircraft flying several hundred feet overhead. The best chance of being rescued lies in an ability to use the issued survival equipment to signal the position to the aircraft. While this situation might seem far-fetched, it is a very real possibility for aircrew members flying out of Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

  • DOVER AIR FORCE BASE IMPLEMENTS HPCON BRAVO

    Col. Matt Husemann, 436th Airlift Wing commander, has implemented Health Protection Condition (HPCON) Bravo Aug. 11, 2021.
  • Airmen from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron load pallets onto a C-17 Globemaster III as part of a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 29, 2021. The U.S. and Nigeria have a long-standing partnership.The bilateral relationship is built on several pillars including security cooperation. Nigeria is a key partner in countering violent extremist organizations throughout the Lake Chad Basin. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    US, Nigeria strengthen partnership at Dover AFB

  • A C-17 Globemaster III takes off from Dover Air Force Base

    3rd AS conducts sortie, exercises global airlift capabilities

    A C-17 Globemaster III takes off from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 29, 2021. The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in a deployment area. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Marco A. Gomez)
  • Graduates of the Staff Sgt. Julio Alonso Airman Leadership School, Class 21-F, recite the Airman’s Creed during their graduation ceremony held at The Landings on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 22, 2021. Twenty-nine Airmen graduated at the first post-COVID-19 dinner and graduation ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mauricio Campino)

    ALS Class 21-F graduation: A return to heritage

    The Staff Sgt. Julio Alonso Airman Leadership School, Class 21-F, graduated 29 students during the first post-COVID-19 dinner and graduation ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 22, 2021.Due to COVID-19 guidance initiated by wing leadership, nine ALS classes had to forgo the traditional dinner and graduation ceremony normally held at
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