Boot Camp gives honorary commanders deeper look at Kirtland

First Airmen with no prior military experience tackle CEARF course

Three Airmen who are the first service members without prior military experience to go through the Career Enlisted Aviation Rotary-Wing Fundamentals course recently graduated from the 23rd Flying Training Squadron, Fort Rucker, Alabama.Airmen 1st Class Adam Flaucher and Brandon Mathis, and Airman

April 6 ceremony to honor POWs

"We are compelled to never forget that while we enjoy our daily pleasures, there are others who have endured and may still be enduring the agonies of pain, deprivation and internment."So reads the Prisoner of War and Missing in Action ceremony script.A ceremony honoring former POWs and service

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