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  • KSC seeks volunteers, cookies for annual drive

    The Kirtland Spouses’ Club is sweetening the holidays once more with its annual Team Kirtland Airman Cookie Drive.Each year in December, club members collect cookies for single Airmen living in the base dorms, with about 600 of them to serve this year, said KSC Vice President of Communications Amber

  • Former Heisman Trophy winner to speak at base

    One of the greatest former college football players of all-time will be at Kirtland Dec. 13 to share a message of resiliency, spiritual well-being and the importance of asking for help when experiencing a mental illness.Herschel Walker won the Heisman Trophy in 1982 while a running back at the

  • Defender honors slain KAFB Airman with children’s book

    A new children’s book memorializes a Kirtland defender killed in action and raises money for scholarships for Security Forces members and their families.“Griff’s Gift” portrays Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin as a mythical griffin who helps the animals at a run-down pet shop become their best and find

  • AFNWC worker awaits release of novels

    An author who works at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is releasing his second book next month, with a third following in March.“Writing started as a challenge to put a story together, but now it’s an obsession,” said Charles Martinez.He was previously enlisted in the Navy for six years as an

  • Nuke inspectors attend new standardized course at Kirtland

    Nuclear weapons technical inspectors receive standardized instruction and learn hands-on skills through a fairly new and unique course at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School.The Nuclear Weapons Technical Inspections Course, taught on Kirtland Air Force Base since May 2015, instills a methodology that

  • Kirtland takes part in 2016 DOD Maintenance Symposium

    Kirtland officials are taking part in the 2016 Department of Defense Maintenance Symposium Dec. 5-8 at the Albuquerque Convention Center here.The Symposium, carrying this year’s theme, “Engaging Tomorrow’s Maintenance Enterprise Challenges Today,” will bring together U.S. government and industry

  • Annual tree lighting ceremony set for Dec. 1

    With decorations, cookies and Santa, the annual Kirtland Air Force Base holiday tree lighting will brighten the holiday season next week.The tree lighting is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Thursday, starting at the big tree behind the Base Chapel, on Fourth Street. Anyone with base access is invited to

  • Kirtland Honor Guard supports dignified arrival

    Kirtland Air Force Base Honor Guard members act as pallbearers for Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Heck on Nov. 18 as his remains arrive at the Albuquerque International Sunport en route to Cannon Air Force Base for the funeral. This dignified arrival, the primary mission of honor guards, was the firstKAFB

  • Copyright material to be deleted from drives

    All music files, movies, games, YouTube content and other copyright material will be deleted from organizational drives and personal user drives on Dec. 9.The 377th Air Base Wing has purchased a new enterprise data storage solution for NIPRNet users at Kirtland. This new data storage repository will

  • AFRL engineer finds a way to stop IEDs

    To inspire current and future Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers, a Kirtland Air Force Base researcher recently told his story of taking his own technology into combat.Jeff Heggemeier of the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate was one of six speakers at the second-annual AFRL