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  • Ropes course to help build resiliency

    A day of teamwork and adrenaline especially for junior enlisted Airmen is coming next month.Outdoor Recreation is leading a trip to Manzano Mountain Retreat from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Participation costs $17 per person and includes lunch and transportation to the retreat 58 miles from

  • Fuel leak cleanup making progress, testing underway

    Leaders in the effort to remove an underground plume of leaked jet fuel say they expect to have the last set of monitoring wells and a fourth extraction well installed this fall.Kathryn Lynnes, senior program manager for the cleanup project at Kirtland Air Force Base, and Diane Agnew, project

  • Quadruple amputee to inspire Team Kirtland with motivational speech

    A new Nike commercial shows a quadruple amputee scaling a snowy mountain.  That mountain climber is also a motivational speaker, who will be speaking at Kirtland Sept. 13.Kyle Maynard, who authored the book “No Excuses” and is an ESPY award mixed martial arts athlete, will talk about how his never

  • Get sampling of New Mexican culture, food at A&FRC event

    Culture shocks are commonplace in the Air Force, as Airmen and their families change duty stations every few years, but add in a duty assignment into a city with a rich diversity of Hispanic and First Nations populations can be a bit overwhelming. The Airman and Family Readiness Center is helping

  • AF reaches first milestone in acquisition of new ICBM

    The Air Force received approval on August 23 for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program to start the next phase of its acquisition effort.With this formal Defense Acquisition System “Milestone A” approval, the GBSD program enters the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase of its effort

  • AFNWC delivers updated reentry vehicle training simulators for maintainers

    Air Force technicians maintaining nuclear reentry vehicle systems will soon have upgraded training simulators to help them succeed in their mission of strategic deterrence.Thanks to a joint effort between the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center and Air Force Global Strike Command, technicians

  • 250th Intelligence Squadron celebrates new state-of-the-art facility

    The 150th Special Operations Wing’s 250th Intelligence Squadron celebrated the completion of its $5 million state-of-the-art facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 19.  The unit is part of the New Mexico Air National Guard. “The facility features secure workspaces for all Airmen and a

  • Airman finds sense of belonging in volunteering

    A wife, mother, student and Airman in the New Mexico Air National Guard wears all those hats and still helps those less fortunate.Staff Sgt. Natalie Dixon is with the 150th Special Operations Wing Logistics Squadron. Before that, she was in the Marine Corps for more than five years.She has lived in

  • Security Forces cracking down on cell use by drivers

    Statistics suggest drivers who are distracted cause 10 percent of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.In the past month, two accidents have occurred on Kirtland as the result of a driver distracted by a cellphone. One accident involved a

  • AFNWC supports schools with backpacks, supplies

    About 50 elementary students are getting a better start to the school year thanks to a directorate within the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.Over about two weeks, the 140 people working in the Nuclear Technologies and Interagency Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base donated hundreds of dollars