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  • Two Air Force officers cut a ribbon to officially welcome a ground training device

    58th SOW leaders at Kirtland AFB welcome Enhanced Fuselage Trainer

    Col. Michael Curry, 58th Special Operations Wing commander, and Lt. Col. Benjamin Bryant, 58th Training Squadron commander, cut a ceremonial ribbon Jan. 15 at Kirtland Air Force Base, officially welcoming the Enhanced Fuselage Trainer. The new, one-of-a-kind, ground-based device, abbreviated “EFuT,” provides highly realistic simulation capabilities that will enable training for approximately 200 MC-130J and HC-130J loadmasters and special mission aviators annually.
  • Asteroid Roxane and its satellite Olympias shown over New Mexico to give a sense of scale. The true orbit of Olympias around Roxane is the large circle, and the sizes of Roxane and Olympias are the filled circles. Olympias orbits around Roxane every 12 days. (Image courtesy of AFRL)

    AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range observes asteroid satellite

    Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Jack Drummond and his team recently discovered a small satellite named Olympias around the asteroid Roxane – a sighting they did not anticipate. Their results were published this month [January 2021] in “Icarus, the Journal of Solar System Studies.”
  • Woman receives coin from Air Force officer.

    Air traffic controller at Kirtland AFB credited with saving CV-22 crew, aircraft

    An air traffic controller working in the tower at Kirtland Air Force Base/Albuquerque International Sunport is credited with saving the lives of six U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircrew members assigned here and a $90 million aircraft.
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    AFRL engineer award winner proclaims a first for the U.S. Space Force

    Air Force Research Laboratory senior engineer Dr. Odell Reynolds received the 2019 Harold Brown award from Dr. Richard Joseph, the Chief Scientist of the Air Force, in a ceremony held on Dec. 16, 2020 at AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range (SOR) located on Kirtland Air Force Base.
  • Uniformed members cut ribbon

    Largest AFGSC Welcome Center opens with ribbon-cutting ceremony

    Team Kirtland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commence the opening of the Welcome Center facility on Jan. 4, 2021, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Kirtland Airmen and their families can in-process in one central location as opposed to visiting various offices across the installation.
  • three men setting up equipment in the desert

    Ghost town provides high-tech testing for AFRL and others

    In a dusty ghost town in southern New Mexico, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is conducting some of its most important testing.
  • Graphic of two dots representing outer space objects orbiting Earth next to each other.

    AFRL spacecraft collects never before seen data

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft has been operating since its launch in June 2019, conducting unique studies into the interactions of radio waves, space plasma and the radiation belts in near-Earth space. AFRL is studying how very low frequency (VLF) radio transmissions travel through the low-density plasma in medium Earth orbit (MEO) and how the transmitting antenna interacts with this plasma during transmissions. DSX is the first mission designed to conduct VLF transmissions detectable at a distance in near-Earth space, and observe their effects.
  • Service members receive a briefing.

    Military medical teams stage to support Navajo Nation at Kirtland waypoint

    The Navajo Nation has been grappling with COVID-19 since the virus hit the United States in March. Team Kirtland has provided support through several volunteer capacities, collecting and coordinating donations, and now, at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense is supporting the Navajo Nation with military medical personnel at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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    58th SOW welcomes new combat rescue helicopter to Kirtland AFB

    The 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland AFB welcomed the Air Force’s newest combat search and rescue helicopter, the HH-60W “Jolly Green II,” Dec. 17.
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    Team Kirtland continues CFC campaign

    U.S. Air Force Col. David S. Miller, 377th Air Base Wing commander, contributes to the annual Combined Federal Campaign online at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Dec. 17, 2020. Team Kirtland’s campaign goal is $90,000 and will be accepting online donations through Jan. 15, 2021. For more information, contact your unit CFC representative. (U.S.
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