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  • Kirtland AFB motorcycle riders gain new online resource

    Motorcycle riders at Kirtland AFB, and people who would like to ride, now have an online resource that provides a wealth of useful information. The "Kirtland Air Force Base Riders" website, https://sites.google.com/site/kafbriders/home, includes a training course calendar for people who want to sign

  • AFRL opens new space research buildings

    In a dual-ceremony event March 26, two Air Force Research Laboratory buildings dedicated to space sensor research and development and space radiation effects were featured at a ribbon-cutting and a groundbreaking. As part of a lab revitalization project at the laboratory, the Space Sensors

  • Air Force, Veterans Affairs partner to open surgery unit

    After seven years of being closed, Kirtland's medical clinic has reopened its Same-Day Surgery Unit as part of a joint venture with the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System.In 2006, the surgery unit was closed as surgeons in the clinic were reassigned to larger Air Force medical centers.

  • AFNWC commander pins on second star

    Air Force officials announced April 4 that Brig. Gen. Sandra Finan, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center commander at Kirtland Air Force Base, has been "frocked" to the rank of major general. Frocking military officers is the practice of pinning on a higher rank after selection for that grade but before

  • AFOSI uses new system to anonymously fight crime

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has purchased a system that allows individuals to report tips anonymously through text, website or a smartphone application."This is not a replacement for '911' or other local emergency reporting avenues but rather a venue that allows people who may

  • Tips for preventing child abuse, neglect

    More than 1.5 million children are abused or neglected in the United States each year. Each abused or neglected child costs the taxpayers more than $67,000 per year.Americans spend more than $80 billion annually on the direct and indirect costs of child abuse and neglect.Child abuse and neglect are

  • Students launch model rockets with AFRL, CAP

    For many middle school students, the idea of being able to work with scientists and launch a rocket is thrilling ... and often unattainable. With help from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Civil Air Patrol, two Albuquerque middle schools are at rocket-launch phase within the Starbase 2.0