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  • Suicide Prevention: Suicide Myth No. 3

    Suicide Myth No. 3: People who attempt suicide and survive are just seeking attention; they seldom ever try it again.Truth: At some level, all suicide attempts are cries for help by individuals experiencing a high degree of desperation. It is important to treat all attempts as serious. Once an

  • Flag football kicks off on Kirtland

    The 2018 Kirtland Intramural Flag Football season has kicked off. Each team is scheduled to play 18 games during the regular season leading up to the playoffs to determine an overall winner. These photos features the WSSS-Joseph and 58th AMXS teams who played Sept. 17, 2018. WSSS-Joseph defeated the

  • Generals inducted into Order of the Nucleus

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center recently inducted two new members, the former commanders of Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command, into its prestigious Order of the Nucleus for their extraordinary support of the Air Force nuclear mission.

  • Sucide Prevention: Suicide Myth No. 2

    Suicide Myth No. 2: Most suicides happen suddenly without warning.Truth: 80 percent of suicides have been preceded by warning signs, whether verbal or behavioral. These signals often include making a joke or threat about suicide, making a reference to being dead, or giving away treasured

  • Airmen commemorate Sept. 11 attacks with ruck march

    Senior Airman Samuel O'Brien with the 377th Special Forces Group carries the U.S. Flag during a ruck march commemorating the victims of the 9-11 attacks here Sept. 11, 2018. The march started at 6:46 a.m. (8:46 EDT, to mark the start time of when the first plane hit the twin towers 17 years ago.

  • SFS #2 claims softball championship

    The SFS #2 team won the Kirtland softball tournament at Kirltand Air Force Base, N.M., Sept. 6, 2018. SFS #2 placed first out of eight teams in the postseason tournament. 

  • Suicide Myth #1

    Myth no. 1: Once someone is suicidal, he or she will always remain suicidal.Most suicidal people are desperately seeking a way out of unbearable emotional pain and are ambivalent about ending their own lives. Heightened suicide risk is often short-term and situation-specific. While suicidal thoughts

  • Softball playoffs start tonight

    Kirtland’s intramural softball postseason is upon us. Playoffs start tonight with a matchup between Thursday Night League regular season champs SFS Harrington (7-4) and Tuesday Night’s fourth-place finisher 58 AMXS (2-9). Tuesday Nights top team, AFRL (11-1) have to be the tournament favorites going

  • ABW, SOW Command Chiefs team up to lead, take care of Airmen

    Two of Kirtland’s major mission partners, the 377th Air Base and 58th Special Operations Wings have a relationship going back more than 25 years. The 58th SOW trains combat search and rescue and special operations aircrew and maintainers, and the 377th has supported the nuclear enterprise and served