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  • Kirtland sergeant receives Bronze Star, Purple Heart medals

    A Kirtland warrior received two military medals after surviving a car bombing while deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan."I never thought I'd receive a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal," said Tech. Sgt. Austin Hardin, a paralegal in the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Legal Office. "Although I wish I

  • Kirtland spouse nets AFMC Key Spouse of the Year Award

    A Team Kirtland member was selected as the Air Force Materiel Command Key Spouse of the Year.Beth Moran, wife of Master Sgt. Andy Moran of the 377th Security Forces Squadron, was selected for her efforts with the Kirtland Key Spouse Program. She said she is honored to receive the award, but shares

  • Summer STEM camp for students from Kirtland families

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy is accepting applications for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, camp for students from Kirtland families. Students who will be going into 5th or 6th grade in the 2014-15 school year, will spend the week exploring hands-on

  • Kirtland has flock of bird studies

    Kirtland's Natural Resource office is conducting seven studies of the bird population found on base.The birds the office is interested in include the burrowing owl, loggerhead shrike, gray vireo, raptors and migratory songbirds."The majority of the research we have going on base are studies on

  • AFRL La Luz Academy holds ‘egg-cellent’ symposium

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy STEM Challenge Flight really came out of its shell at the culminating STEM Challenge Symposium.AFRL La Luz Academy at Kirtland is an education outreach program that promotes science, technology, engineering and math education activities for New Mexico

  • Kirtland enhances its fuel spill soil vapor removal

    Kirtland has expanded its investigation and remediation of the vadose zone, the soil layer contaminated by the fuel spill.This interim remediation measure is designed to address the fuel spill, according to information on the New Mexico Environment Department website.Fuel vapor is drawn from

  • Base Chapel hosts Holocaust remembrance ceremony

    Approximately 100 Team Kirtland members congregated April 30 at the Base Chapel for the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.Following a presentation of the colors by the Kirtland Honor Guard, singing of the National Anthem, and an invocation by Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Thomas Elbert, three members of the

  • Young Marines learn about camouflage, first aid

    Fifteen young Marines got to see something special demonstrated at Kirtland Air Force Base on Saturday.Or, to be more precise, it's what they couldn't see that amazed them.In an undeveloped area in the southern part of the base, a Marine from the 4th Reconnaissance Battalion's Delta Company, part of

  • More than 1,000 New Mexico fifth graders to simulate trip to Mars

    More than 1,000 fifth grade students from 40 New Mexico schools will come together May 2 at the Albuquerque Convention Center to simulate going on a manned mission to Mars.Mars Link-Up Day is the culminating event of the Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy's Mars Missions Flight, a science,

  • Tour of Shiva Star sends powerful message

    A group of high school students from Bosque School learned about a couple of big projects at Air Force Research Laboratory on April 11, and saw one of the more destructive machines Air Force scientists get to use.Chris Erickson, an AFRL scientist, said the tour was part of a program that shows