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  • Dover AFB Recycling Center open house a huge success

    The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron’s Base Recycling Center held an open house on April 18, 2024.The open house allowed base units to turn in unwanted or excess items such as sleeping bags, used tires, heaters, furniture, wooden pallets, aircraft ground equipment and electronics for proper

  • Polytech Panther returns home for Thunder Over Dover

    F-22 Raptor dedicated crew chief Staff Sgt. Zach Zistl, local 2012 Polytech High School graduate, returned to his hometown as a member of the F-22 demonstration team for the Thunder Over Dover 2019 open house Sept. 14-15, 2019.This year’s air show will feature two F-22 Raptors, which arrived from

  • Thunder Over Dover thrills Delmarva

    More than 50,000 people visited Dover AFB for the 2017 Thunder Over Dover Open House and Airshow August 26–27. The event featured more than 20 aerial and ground performances from multiple military and civilian performers, as well as static displays of dozens of the Air Force’s most iconic aircraft

  • Snapshot: Australian strongman practices pulling a C-17

    From the flight deck, Master Sgt. Christine King, top left, and Tech. Sgt. Brinnae Wigley, top right, both 712th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs, watch Cmdr. Grant Edwards, Australian Federal Police, Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C., repositions himself on his third attempt at