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  • Straight Talk line gives crisis info

    The Kirtland Air Force Base Straight Talk Line relays important information during a base emergency, supplementing the AtHoc mass notification system, Kirtland public website and Facebook page.Straight Talk is designed to replace rumor with brief, accurate recorded information about a crisis and the

  • Health programs help Team Kirtland get fit

    Once an overweight child, the base's new health promotions program coordinator now considers exercise a fountain of youth and stresses that good health allows Airmen to do their jobs.Guy Leahy stepped into the position in November, after it had been vacant for some time. He has a master's degree in

  • AFSEC helps plan for culture of cyber safety

    Personnel at the Kirtland-headquartered Air Force Safety Center are creating a plan to engrain good cyber security habits in every member of the Air Force.Last March, Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III established Task Force Cyber Secure to identify the risks in cyber space and

  • Kirtland remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

    About 100 members of the base community noted the importance of unity Friday morning at a breakfast to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his 87th birthday.Col. Lance Kawane, vice commander of the 377th Air Base Wing, hosted the event at Mountain View Club, and said

  • Kirtland Warrior: Senior Airman Geoff Gonzalez

    KIRTLAND WARRIORName: Senior Airman Geoff GonzalezUnit: 898th Munitions SquadronDuty title:  Weapons maintenance team chiefHometown:  San Antonio, TexasAccomplishments: Gonzalez was certified as a weapons maintenance team chief as a senior airman, a rare feat for an enlisted member of his rank.  He

  • 150th SOW members help after storm

    Sixty-two National Guard Airmen from Kirtland Air Force Base helped keep traffic flowing safely during Winter Storm Goliath around the Albuquerque metro area and in hard-hit eastern New Mexico.The Airmen were among the many personnel who helped handle the effects of the storm after the governor

  • Bulk fuel facility's third extraction well to be activated soon

    The Kirtland Air Force Base fuel spill cleanup is close to activating a third extraction well and starting pilot projects to feed the bacteria breaking down the underground contamination, project leaders said.KAFB cleanup program manager Kathryn Lynnes and New Mexico Environment Department

  • No BRAC likely until 2019, official says

    The director of the state Office of Military Base Planning and Support expects no federal base realignment and closure movement this year, although he warned the Kirtland Partnership Committee that one could come in 2019.Eric Kivi spoke at the KPC breakfast Tuesday morning at Embassy Suites

  • AFRL officer finds deployment a life-changing experience

    Capt. Jacob "Jake" English is an impressive officer on many accounts. Late last year he returned from a six-month volunteer deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan.  English returned from deployment to the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland,  where he has served since April 2012 with both the

  • Major renovation project underway at MDG Clinic

    Members of the 377th Medical Group donned hard hats and a sledgehammer and broke down a wall at the main clinic Jan. 11 at a wall breaking ceremony that signified the start of major construction on a $16.9 million upgrade to the facility.About 81,000 square feet of the main clinic will be renovated.