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  • Brig. Gen. Babcock visits Team Dover

    U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Anthony Babcock, Air Mobility Command director of logistics, engineering and force protection, tours the 436th Maintenance Squadron C-5M isochronal inspection dock at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 18, 2025. Babcock's visit to the 436th Airlift Wing included the 436th

  • Millions of Potential Stories

    Each and every individual that decides to join the United States Armed Forces has a definitive and different reason for choosing to serve their country. The first steps of that service, inevitably, is basic training. Every day, thousands of recruits go through basic training in various locations,

  • Advancements in the Identification Efforts for the Cabanatuan POW Camp

    The identification of missing service members, especially those who were Prisoners of War (POWs) in past conflicts, has profound impacts not only on the military community but especially on the living relatives of those lost. In many cases, the family members play key roles in identifying those

  • AFDIL gets the SNP: A New Era in DNA Technology

    As if being a world leader in understanding and utilizing DNA wasn’t a high-enough achievement, the Department of Defense (DoD) DNA Operations division within the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) has set the bar to a whole new level.For the record, as someone who graduated High School

  • SynCan or SynCan't?

    Just in case you’re wondering, you might want to go with SynCan’t. Imagine it’s the early 2000’s. Were you on your way to fight for Uncle Sam in the Middle East? Maybe ranking the latest and greatest pop music? At that time, scientists and leaders around the world were noticing a significant rise in

  • How AFMES members balance duty and community

    At the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES), the dedication to service transcends the lab coats and sterile environments of their daily responsibilities. These men and women are committed to something greater than themselves—both within the walls of their workplace and outside in the

  • UPGRADED: MWDs get new training aids

    What happens when you pluck a Military Working Dog (MWD) Handler from the kennels and drop him in the middle of a bunch of chemists, toxicologists, and laboratory technicians? He gets right to work.U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Juan Salinas, Security Forces Manager, Joint MWD (JMWD) Program,

  • AFMES earns accreditation

    After more than a year of research and application, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) Forensic Pathology Investigations (FPI) division recently received its accreditation through the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). The NAME is a premier professional organization for