HotInfo

Due to the government shutdown, this website is not being updated.

News Search

  • Base needs coordinators for blood drives

    After an absence of several years, United Blood Services is again seeking donations from military personnel at Kirtland Air Force Base.Earlier in March, a memorandum of record among the 377th Medical Group, Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center and United Blood Services was approved to allow the

  • Commentary: Weight-loss registry has tips for getting slim

    We've often heard the statistic that 90 percent of diets fail.That, unfortunately, is more or less true. What we don't hear about so often are the 10 percent who succeed.There are tens of thousands of people who have lost 20, 50 or even 100-plus pounds and kept it off for years. How do these

  • Caregivers help each other with new support group

    Caregivers and families of wounded warriors are now able to find support on Kirtland Air Force Base through the Airman and Family Readiness Center.March 4 was the first-ever meeting hosted on Kirtland, with a focus on support for caregivers. The meeting had the regional peer support coordinator from

  • Kirtland Warrior: Airman 1st Class Eric Shirey

    Name: Airman 1st Class Eric ShireyUnit: 377th Comptroller SquadronDuty title: Customer serviceHometown: Kapoli, HawaiiGoals: Shirey would like to pursue his master's degree in accounting.  He would like to become a CPA and own his own accounting firm.  He'd also like to become an

  • Kirtland Airman 'forever changed' by Tops in Blue experience

    After a year away from Kirtland, Senior Airman Rashaun Carter is back performing his regular duties as an aircrew flight equipment technician with the 58th Special Operations Wing. While the job is similar to before he left, he is not."I'm forever changed by this program, for the better," Carter

  • Got consent trial puts Team Kirtland in jury box

    The now annual Got Consent mock trials conducted at bases around the Air Force are meant to start a conversation among Airmen about sexual assault. Members of the Kirtland Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office have taken the trial a couple of steps further, bringing an innovative courtroom

  • Vet finds WWII ambulance after 71 years

    Seventy-one years ago, a young soldier left his World War II ambulance in a vehicle "graveyard" in Germany and returned home to Wisconsin. Last year, he found that ambulance in Albuquerque.Thomas Grasser, 91, was visiting the New Mexico Museum of Military History last summer when he realized the

  • AFRL scientist passionate about achievements in electromagnetics

    Making history as the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate's first woman civilian division chief, Mary Lou Robinson is passionate about the lab and her High Power Electromagnetics Division's scientific achievements in supporting the warfighter."High-power electromagnetic signals

  • Aerial porters qualify to use night vision goggles

    Fourteen aerial porters with the 58th Operations Support Squadron and two from the 27th Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, completed a three-day aerial port night vision course here on March 11.The certification was a first for the 58th Special