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  • Military support group serves local VA patients

    An organization called Solders' Angels is ramping up efforts to help veterans at the Raymond G. Murphy Veterans Administration Medical Center and is seeking local volunteers tto participate.Vicki Sarracino, Soldiers' Angels vice president of field operations, said they are bringing in a

  • USAFA's band Blue Steel visits New Mexico

    "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon. "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten.The U.S. Air Force Academy Blue Steel band played those songs and a few more Friday outside the Student Union Building at the University of New Mexico. The performance, like all of the band's shows, was free and open to the

  • Local fire tanker heads 'Down Under'

    An air fire tanker company based at the Kirtland/Sunport airfield has deployed one of its planes to Australia to fight fires.10 Tanker Air Carrier's "910" jumbo DC-10 began service from a Royal Australian Air Force base in Richmond, New South Wales, Oct. 1, according to the company's president, Rick

  • Tap into your empathy, says suicide prevention program manager

    On the heels of September's suicide prevention awareness month, mental health professionals at Kirtland are working hard to ensure base members continue to be vigilant in looking out for the well-being of their coworkers.Capt. Joye Henrie, installation suicide prevention program manager, said

  • Kirtland Spouses' Club gears up for annual food drive

    The Kirtland Spouses' Club is preparing for a November food drive to benefit the food pantry at the base's Airman and Family Readiness Center.The food drive will run Nov. 1-24. Dinah Dziolek, member-at-large for the KSC and wife of 58th Special Operations Wing Chaplain Capt. David Dziolek, said the

  • Base hosts tour of Bulk Fuels Facility

    Members of the base community toured Kirtland's Bulk Fuels Facility Oct. 24 to learn more about a 1999 fuel spill and the base's cleanup efforts.Participants were able to view the facility and the temporary and full-scale treatment systems, and receive information from Air Force scientists and

  • Base engineers thank church at food pantry

    Kirtland engineers have been putting their backs into a local church's food bank in return for the church allowing fuel plume remediation work in its parking lot."They've been delightful to work with and just kind and courteous," said Christ United Methodist Church food distribution coordinator Ann