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  • Individual Ready Reserve Muster on Saturday

    There will be an Individual Ready Reserve Muster on Kirtland Air Force Base from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday, April 23.The event takes place in the Consolidated Support Building. The IRR is a manpower pool consisting of individuals who have been trained and previously served in the active force or

  • Guest speaker announced for dining out event

    The 377th Air Base Wing will hold a combat dining out at the Guard maintenance hangar (Building 1043) from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 29. The scheduled guest speaker is retired Air Force Col. Sidney M. Gutierrez, a former astronaut and Albuquerque native. Ticket prices are $10 for

  • Court reporter receives award

    A civilian employee of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has received the 2010 Harold R. Vague Award as the outstanding Air Force Materiel Command legal service civilian of the year. Court reporter Crystal D. Franco was selected based on demonstrated excellence, initiative, attorney/paralegal

  • Competition used to conduct internal review

    The 898th Munitions Squadron recently took time for an internal process review. Senior leaders in the squadron met to review and discuss processes, such as work scheduling, training and technical data updates to ensure all stakeholders understand the processes, as well as provide the opportunity to

  • Keeping storm water clean

    Rain water that falls on Kirtland flows over the land and over impervious surfaces such as streets, parking lots, driveways and sidewalks. Storm water can pick up dripped vehicle fluids, cigarette butts, plastic bags, bottles and other pollutants that flow into gutters, arroyos and storm sewers that

  • 377th Air Base Wing JAG wins national annual award

    The 377th Air Base Wing's Staff Judge Advocate has been selected by the Judge Advocates Association as the 2010 active-duty Air Force Outstanding Career Judge Advocate. Lt. Col. Stephen See, who also serves as the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center's Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, will be recognized May

  • Street dedication on May 4

    The 377th Air Base Wing will conduct a street dedication ceremony May 4 at 10 a.m., changing F-Street to "Frost Street" in honor of Staff Sgt. Christopher Frost, who was killed in action March 3, 2008, while serving in Iraq.The ceremony will take place in front of the Airman Leadership School at

  • Experts talk technology

    Officials from the state of New Mexico, Bernalillo County and the city of Albuquerque gathered April 5 at Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate's lobby in Building 472 to watch cryogenic experiments and displays and talk to experts about their programs at AFRL's State Day. The

  • Base-led experiments to visit space station

    When the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 29, two experiments administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate will be housed in its cargo bay awaiting transfer to the

  • AFRL hosting Rapid Reaction Challenge

    Beginning today and occurring through April 27, a remote location in the southeast corner of Kirtland Air Force Base will become a proving ground for seven U.S. universities' creativity and design in their attempt to meet an urgent warfighter requirement during AFRL's annual Rapid Reaction