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  • Kirtland extends AFAF donation window to May 13

    Team Kirtland members will have two more weeks to donate to the Air Force Assistance Fund, as the deadline to donate has been extended to May 13.Currently, the base has raised almost $21,405, about 30 percent of its overall goal of $69,049.The annual effort raises funds to provide support throughout

  • Airmen and the Zika virus: What you need to know

    The Zika virus is one of the hottest topics making the news, and it is an infectious disease that can likely affect a very mobile military population.This disease is serious enough that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is acutely tracking its progress as the virus has made its way to

  • AFRL's Mission to Mars program takes flight

    Thirty-seven schools and 1,048 fifth graders recently simulated life on Mars and built their own life support systems. The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy Mission to Mars program celebrated its 22nd year on April 22. Students from across New Mexico gathered at the Albuquerque Convention

  • Tips to break a sugar habit

    Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that your body uses for fuel, but it has no other nutritional value and has been shown to have addictive properties. Today the typical American consumes more than 140 pounds of sugar a year, compared to only 10 pounds per year in the 1800's.  And it's no wonder, as

  • 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),