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  • Base celebrates 75th anniversary with banquet, golf

    Whether swing dancing, swinging a golf club or just getting in the swing of an evening out, Kirtland Air Force Base personnel and community partners celebrated the base's 75th anniversary with a golf tournament and banquet Saturday."History makes you smarter, but heritage makes you prouder," said

  • AFRL La Luz rocket team heading back to nationals

    Qualification for nationals in the Team America Rocketry Challenge no easy feat.However, a team of eighth-graders at the Air Force Research Laboratory's La Luz Academy at Kirtland Air Force Base has done it -- twice."I feel really lucky to be with these groups of kids," said team mentor Jacob

  • AFSEC trains international flight safety officers

    Twenty-two people from 15 nations have been learning how to make aviation safer and figure out what went wrong in aircraft mishaps at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Air Force Security Assistance Training Program International Flight Safety Officer Course, run by the Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC),

  • AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate introduces new director

    Dr. Kelly Hammett was welcomed as the new director of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at a ceremony at the AFRL Conference Center April 25. He was also promoted to the Senior Executive Service at the ceremony."It's with a sense of humility and honor that I'm here,"

  • Youth Center kids learn gardening skills

    Cries of "Eww!" and "Cool!" ring across the playground at every worm unearthed during the Kirtland Air Force Base Youth Center's annual planting of the garden.Youth center drama teacher Jean Sucher is responsible for the garden club. Every year, she teaches kids how to grow fruits, vegetables and

  • Airmen go inside sexual assault case as actors in mock trial

    The sexual assault mock trial, conducting a final performance Friday at 1 p.m. at the Phillips Conference Center, is designed to make the topic of sexual assault real for the audience. People attending are even asked to play jurors and vote on a conviction or acquittal after the trial. But whether

  • 58th SOW shares mission with UPT students

    Aircrew members at the 58th Special Operations Wing tend to fly under the radar, literally and figuratively.The special operations and combat rescue Airmen regarded by some as "quiet professionals" don't garner the kind of acclaim that some of the Air Force's more glamorous weapons systems do,

  • Helicopter squadron flies Tuskegee cadets

    Two helicopters from the 23rd Flying Training Squadron at Fort Rucker, Alabama, flew to Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, April 6, to give orientation flights on TH-UH1 Hueys to 38 cadets and three cadre assigned to Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 015, located at the

  • DTRA Reservists teach course on nuclear incident response

    Reservists based at Kirtland are teaching first responders all over the country how to respond to nuclear terrorist attacks.The Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Reserve component at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School involves 32 of the 240 people who work for the agency, said Inspections and

  • 377th Medical Group partners with Women to Be

    The efforts of a group of Kirtland Airmen and their families will help empower Nepalese girls by giving them hygiene items to allow them to stay in school.Christine Glidden, who has participated in the Kirtland Air Force Base Honorary Commanders Program for six years, asked 377th Medical Group