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  • Volunteer victim advocates complete week-long training

    Six volunteers recently completed mandatory training and will soon join Kirtland's victim advocates support team.The 40-hour training session ran the gamut of topics, including traumatization, how to respond to a sexual assault, operations and logistics, legalities and ethics, potential scenarios

  • Air Force mobilizing drilling rigs

    Drilling of monitoring wells in an Albuquerque neighborhood has begun as part of an effort to better understand the size, shape and movement of a fuel leak at Kirtland.The wells will be used to address remaining data gaps and further characterize the horizontal and vertical extent of the dissolved

  • Kirtland childcare provider named best in AFMC

    The Kirtland Family Child Care program demands a lot from its providers, and a successful provider must meet the program's standards for licensure and the demands of childcare on a daily basis. Still, providers regularly do this and more, according to FCC provider Marie Stabe, who was recently named

  • CV-22 damaged at Double Eagle Airport

    A CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft experienced a nose landing gear malfunction while landing at Double Eagle Airport near Albuquerque, N.M. at approximately 11:30 a.m. today.  The aircraft was on a routine training mission at the time and sustained damage to the nose of the aircraft.  There were no

  • AFRL helps local high school students launch weather balloon

    Students from Highland High School and scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory are launching a full-scale weather balloon to conduct high altitude experiments. For the past month, Highland students have been working with AFRL scientists and engineers to create their payloads

  • KSC seeking donations, volunteers for annual cookie drive

    Kirtland Spouses' Club will be spreading cheer this holiday season in the form of cookies.The KSC is hoping to fill plates with more than 6,500 cookies this year, and is asking community members to help by donating homemade cookies.The cookie drive is an annual event sponsored by the spouses' club,

  • Air Force announces plans for realignment

    The Air Force announced plans to realign Kirtland's 377th Air Base Wing under the Air Force Global Strike Command, and to restructure the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.This is part of an effort to improve the effectiveness of and support for the Air Force's nuclear enterprise, according to

  • CFW wins fourth consecutive intramural title

    The "CFW" captured the base flag football championship for a fourth consecutive year.The CFW takes its name from where the players are from: the Comptroller Squadron, Force Support Squadron and Wing Staff Agencies. The team went 10-1during the regular season, swept through the playoffs and then

  • Kirtland family child care provider named best in AMFC

    The Kirtland Family Child Care program demands a lot from its providers, and a successful provider must meet the program's standards for licensure and the demands of childcare on a daily basis. Still, providers regularly do this and more, according to FCC provider Marie Stabe, who was recently named