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  • Problem-solving challenge benefits participants, warfighters

    "Got innovation?" That's a question AFRL New Mexico's John Holbrook is asking Team Kirtland in the lead up to this year's AFRL Commanders Challenge. Holbrook is looking for a team of junior members -- military and civilians with less than 10 years of service -- with a passion for innovation. The

  • Drug Demand Reduction program helps deter drug use

    Thirty-two active duty members entering Kirtland between midnight and 3 a.m. April 2 were subjected to a random urinalysis.First Sergeants and volunteers from across Team Kirtland directed vehicles at the Gibson Gate to follow road blocks leading to the base swimming pool, where every third vehicle

  • Memorial march proves emotional for Kirtland team

    A six-member team from Kirtland Air Force Base completed the Bataan Memorial Death March on March 20. The march is an annual event that honors Bataan Survivors with a 26.2-mile course hosted at White Sands Missile Range. The team, led by Wing Staff Agencies resource adviser 2nd Lt. Christian

  • New support group aims to meet needs of single parents

    A single-parent support group is forming at Kirtland Air Force Base.The first meeting is set for 9-10 a.m. April 13 in the Consolidated Support Building, Room 126. The group is open to anyone with base access, whether military, civilian employee or contractor.Group organizer Ericka Wallace of the

  • 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